Margaretha Magdalena (Pretorius) Smit (1784-1856)

Margaretha Magdalena "Margritha" Smit formerly Pretorius

Born 26 Sep 1784 in Cradock, Cape Colony, South Africa

Ancestors

Daughter of Jacobus Cornelis Pretorius and Magritha Johanna (Koetze) Potgieter

Sister of Johanna Margaretha (Pretorius) van Heerden, Johannes Petrus Pretorius, Anna Jacoba (Pretorius) Hatting, Jacobus Lodewyk Pretorius, Hybrich Elizabeth (Pretorius) Stapenberg and Lourens Pretorius

Wife of Lourens Erasmus Smit — married 26 Apr 1801 in Cape Town

Descendants

Mother of Jacobus Petrus Smit, Margaretha Johanna (Smit) Olivier, Lourens Erasmus Smit, Petrus Johannes Smit, Martha Louisa Smit, Catharina Maria Smit, Stephanus Johannes Smit, Anna Elizabeth Smit, Johannis Búrgert Smit, Stephanus Johannes Smit and Francois Jacobus Smit

Died 17 May 1856 at age 71 in Cape Colony, South Africa

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Margaretha (Pretorius) Smit was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Biography

Date: Margritha Pretorius was born in 1784. ^[1]

Sources

WikiTree profile Pretorius-4146 created through the import of My Family.Pretorius.Van_Wyk.DeWaal.Potgieter.2011.ged on Sep 19, 2011 by Judy Potgieter.

↑ First-hand information as remembered by Johan Smit, Sunday, December 7, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

"South Africa, Orange Free State, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1989," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6FD9-H7H?cc=3040532 : 30 May 2019), > image 1 of 1; citing Master's Office of the Orange Free State Archives, Bloemfontein.

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Baptism *"South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68MB-HD65 : Fri Mar 08 22:51:47 UTC 2024), Entry for Margritha Magdalena Pretorius and Margritha Johanna Coetze, 26 Sep 1784.

Marriage *"South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KTT-W5RQ : Sun Mar 10 01:20:32 UTC 2024), Entry for Lourens Erasmus Smit and Margaretha Magdalena Pretorius, 26 Apr 1801.

Probate *"South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZX-55LC : Mon Mar 11 01:14:26 UTC 2024), Entry for Margaretha Magdalena Pretorius, from 1853 to 1856.

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It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:

Estie (Nel) de Jager : Mitochondrial DNA Test HVR1, haplogroup K

It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaretha:

~1.56% Simon Aitken : 23andMe, GEDmatch A711596 [compare] + AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A711596 [compare], Ancestry member simonaitken81 + Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A711596 [compare], FTDNA kit #B331502
~1.56% Natalie (Arrowsmith) Schmidt : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LS4027212 [compare], Ancestry member nats_schmidt
~1.56% ~12.50% Karl Schmidt : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #670800
~0.78% ~1.56% Skye Coston : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A90586 [compare], Ancestry member skyechi
~0.78% Mathys Johannes Smit : AncestryDNA
~0.78% Jeff Koertzen : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LR4686758 [compare], Ancestry member jeffkoertzen
~0.78% Yolanda van der Mescht : MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch HR4637144 [compare]
~0.39% Ty King : AncestryDNA

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Philip van der Walt

Pretorius-5498 and Pretorius-4146 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same spouse, same child. Please merge (if any technical problems arise please contact me.

posted Jan 08, 2015 by Philip van der Walt

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Margaretha Magdalena (Pretorius) Smit (1784 - 1856)

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