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Maria Barendina Dreyer

~1779.07.23 - 1848.05.05

When she was 44 year old, the widow Maria Barendina Dreyer married her 26 year old gardener (perhaps farm manager in today's terminology?) Jacob Letterstedt. They had no children together.

Jan Frederik Dreyer was the second son of Thomas Frederick Dreyer, son of Johannes Augustus Dreyer of Gruebe (who also seems to have been called by the name Isaac Dalgue). Jan (Johannes Frederik) Dreyer bought the farm from Johannes Louw.

Johannes Augustus Dreyer (1668.01.01 - 1759.04.06, 91 y.o.) son of Rev Johannes dreyer and Anna Catharina Jensen joined the Dutch East India Company under the name of Isaac Dalgue. He was known as such from 1713 when he arrived in the Cape as midshipman (adelborst). As Dalgue he married, became free burgher and was appointed to various official positions, including messenger of the Orphan Chamber. In 1751 he officially changed his name to Johannes Augustus Dreyer.

Johannes Augustus Dreyer on 1716.01.31 married Sara van Wyk (baptised 1699.11.29. They had 4 children. The 3rd, Thomas Frederick Dreyer married on 1763.09.11 Christina Francke. They had 5 children. The 2nd Johannes Frederick Dreyer (baptised 1765.09.01 - 1819.02.20) on 1784.10.10 married Engela van Niekerk (baptised 1764.03.25). They had 5 children. On 1808.03.20 he remarried Maria Barendina Bekker in the Evangelische Lutersche Kirche in Cape Town.

Jan (Johannes Frederik) Dreyer was first married to Engela van Niekerk. They had two daughters:

1. Aletta, married Hermanus Andries Eksteen
2. Christina, married Johannes Petrus Philip Ulrich

Jan Frederik Dreyer later married Maria Barendina Bekker (or Becker) (baptised on 1779.07.23), daughter of Caspar Bekker (1799.05.?). She was first married to Georg Jacob Kieffer. They had two sons, Jan Frederick Kieffer and Casper Kieffer. Within a year of Kieffer's death she married Jan (Johannes Frederik) Dreyer. Letterstedt was thus her third husband.

Georg Jacob Kieffer born 1763 - 1807.12.22 arrived in the Cape in 1778 from Knielingen (Baden). He was a soldier from 1788.

Johannes Frederick Dreyer (1765.09.01 - 1819.02.20) and Maria Barendina Bekker had 2 children:

1. Martha Magdalena Maria Dreyer baptised on 1810.06.17 - 1852.01.13, married Hendrik Johannes de Necker 1800-1837.
2. Caspar Bekker Dreyer 1812-1900. He was a farmer, who later became a brewer.

Carl Friedrich Pitzer married Maria de Wege on 1759.01.07. He arrived in the Cape from Tangermunde (Germany) in 1743 as a soldier. He was given burgher rights at Stellenbosch in 1747 and practiced as a surgeon. They had 8 children, one (the 6th) of which was Martha Maria Pitzer.

Martha Maria Pitzer married Caspar Becker / Bekker (from Amsterdam) on 1772.09.27. Martha Maria Pitzer married on 1786.12.31 Johannes Rommel (form Ausburg). Martha Maria Pitzer had 7 children. Her fourth child was Maria Barendina Bekker (baptised on 1779.07.23).

Martha Magdalena Maria Dreyer

She was married twice:

1. Hendrik Johannes de Necker by whom she had 7 children
2. Johannes Nicholaas Hamman by whom she had 8 children

©1999 Jacques Steyn