MOOC8 Estate Inventory
MOOC8/42.26 — GYSBERTUS VAN REENEN, BRAKKEFONTEIN, SPRING FONTEIN, BRAKKEFONTEIN, OLIE BOOM, CAPE DOWNS, LINDENSCHRAAL, CAPE DOWNS, BRAKKE FONTEIN, RONDE BOSCHE, GEDULD OF MOSAMBIQUE, APOLLOS OF MOSAMBIQUE, AMOR OF MOSAMBIQUE, ABEL OF MOSAMBIQUE, JULY OF MOSAMBIQUE, CUPIDO OF MALABAR, PHILIP OF MALABAR, AUGUST OF MOSAMBIQUE, CAESAR OF BATAVIA, DOLLIE OF THIS COLONY, ESAU OF MOSAMBIQUE, DAVID OF MOSAMBIQUE, AFRICA OF THIS COLONY, HOOP OF THIS COLONY, ISAAC OF THIS COLONY, COBUS OF THIS COLONY, JAN OF THIS COLONY, KLAAS OF THIS COLONY, ABRAHAM OF THIS COLONY, WILLEM OF THIS COLONY, ADAM OF THIS COLONY, JEPHTA OF THIS COLONY, ADONIS OF MALABAR, TROEKIE OF MOSAMBIQUE, NOVEL OF MOSAMBIQUE, CAROLUS OF MOSAMBIQUE, APRIL OF MOSAMBIQUE, LAFLEUR OF MALABAR, CRECIA OF MOSAMBIQUE, APOLLOS OF THIS COLONY, PAMELA OF THIS COLONY, STEYN OF THIS COLONY, EVA OF THIS COLONY, JULIANA OF THIS COLONY, FLORA OF MOSAMBIQUE, ROSET OF THIS COLONY, ROOS OF THIS COLONY, LEA, HANNA, ALEXANDER, FRANCINA, EVA OF THIS COLONY, BRAKKEFONTEYN, SPRINGFONTYN, CANDACE OF BATAVIA
18270507
Inventory details
- MOOC reference
- MOOC8/42.26
- Date
- 18270507
- Names
- Gysbertus van Reenen, Brakkefontein, Spring Fontein, Brakkefontein, Olie Boom, Cape downs, Lindenschraal, Cape downs, Brakke Fontein, Ronde Bosche, Geduld of Mosambique, Apollos of Mosambique, Amor of Mosambique, Abel of Mosambique, July of Mosambique, Cupido of Malabar, Philip of Malabar, August of Mosambique, Caesar of Batavia, Dollie of this Colony, Esau of Mosambique, David of Mosambique, Africa of this Colony, Hoop of this Colony, Isaac of this Colony, Cobus of this Colony, Jan of this Colony, Klaas of this Colony, Abraham of this Colony, Willem of this Colony, Adam of this Colony, Jephta of this Colony, Adonis of Malabar, Troekie of Mosambique, Novel of Mosambique, Carolus of Mosambique, April of Mosambique, Lafleur of Malabar, Crecia of Mosambique, Apollos of this Colony, Pamela of this Colony, Steyn of this Colony, Eva of this Colony, Juliana of this Colony, Flora of Mosambique, Roset of this Colony, Roos of this Colony, Lea, Hanna, Alexander, Francina, Eva of this Colony, Brakkefonteyn, Springfontyn, Candace of Batavia
Transcription
MOOC8/42.26
{18270507} 7 May 1827 Gysbertus van Reenen , Maria Johanna
Smalbergen
Inventory of all such property of Gysbertus van Reenen and Maria Johanna
Smalbergen relinquished by the death of the firstmentioned on the fourteenth
day of the month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty seven.
The deceased having by his last will and testament executed jointly with
his aforesaid wife on the 27th January 1780 before the then chief clerk in the
Colonial Secretary's Office Mr George Fredrik Goets and witnesses appointed his
aforesaid wife as his sole and universal heiress together with the children
procreated in this wedlock, namely
The deceased has further by a codicil dated 29 March 1827 requested and
appointed the Board of Orphan Masters to be and to act as executors of the said
will and guardians over his abovementioned minor children, in consequence
whereof the undersigned commissioned Members of the Orphan Board have taken the
estate under proper inventory and found the same to consist in the following
viz:t
On the aforesaid place Brakke Fontein
It is hereby stated that there are some stukvats, leaguers and other casks
with wine at Ronde Bosche with Mr Sybrand
Mostert Cornelis son the number of which cannot be ascertained here - twenty
one stukvats /:four with wine:/, a wine cask and a fermenting tub.
Thus inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope at the place aforesaid on the
seventh day of the month of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty seven according to a statement made by the surviving widow
and Rogier Joan Oliviera in the presence of Marthinus Melk and Johan George
Muller and Dirk Gysbertus van Reenen G:s son and did the two firstmentioned
declare to have acted herein bonafide and that to the best of their knowledge
they have not withheld or secreted any thing that belonged to the aforesaid
estate, and the said appearers further declared that they are and will at all
times be ready and willing to confirm their statement with solemn oath if
required, promising at the same time that if after the date of these presents
any property of this estate might be discovered shall faithfully communicate it
to the Orphan Chamber in order to amplify this inventory therewith.
In witness whereof we the Commissioners together with the appearers and
the Secretary have subscribed to these presents.
As Commissioners: J:F: Munnik, J: Horne, M: Melck, J: George Muller,
D:G: v: Reenen G:z
De weuduwe G: van Reenen, R:J: de Oliviera
In my presence: J:J:L Smuts
24 September 1827
Brakkefonteyn , Springfontyn en 1 stuk erfpagtland verbanden by de
ondervolgende
| 1) Anna Jacoba van Reenen married with Marthinus Melk |
| 2) Dirk Gysbert van Reenen |
| 3) Maria Johanna van Reenen married with Johan George Muller |
| 4) Johanna Petronella van Reenen married with Sybrand Mostert C:s son |
| 5) Gesina Petronella van Reenen aged [ ..... ] |
| 6) Elisabeth Johanna van Reenen married with Rogier Joan Oliviera |
| 7) Alida Jacoba Dirktina van Reenen married with Andries Stadler |
| 8) Martina Catharina van Reenen born on the 1 September 1807, and |
| 9) Catharina Gesina Maria van Reenen born on the 15th April 1810 |
| A place called Brakkefontein with the buildings erected thereon situated in the Cape district |
| a piece of quit rent land adjoining the aforesaid place called Kleine Papekuilsfontein |
| a place /:loanplace:/ called Spring Fontein measured in perpetual quit rent also adjoining the place Brakkefontein |
| a piece of land called Olie Boom situated in the Cape downs |
| a piece of land called Lindenschraal situated in the Cape downs |
In the passage
| three tables |
| twelve chairs |
| one spy glass |
| six shade lamps |
Right hand room
| two window curtains with poles |
| one looking glass |
| a shaving glass |
| an optica with a book of prints |
| a sopha |
| six chairs |
| three dumb waiters |
| five foot stools |
| a stretcher, a bed, two pillows, one bolster and a coverlet |
Left hand room
| a sopha |
| a looking glass |
| eight chairs |
| a dumb waiter |
| a white copper tea urn |
| a washhand stand with bason and jug |
| a bedstead with curtains |
| a feather bed |
| a bolster |
| four pillows |
| a blanket |
| a coverlet and cover |
| a bed |
| a bolster |
| four pillows |
| a blanket |
| a cover and coverlet |
In the hall
| a set of five dining tables |
| two small tables |
| twelve chairs |
| an eight days clock |
| a green table cloth |
In bed room 1
| a window curtain |
| a wardrobe |
| a looking glass |
| six chairs |
| two tables |
| a gun rack |
| a small round table |
| a writing desk |
| a bedstead with curtains bed, bolster, pillows and cover complete |
In bed room n:o 2
| a window curtain |
| a looking glass |
| twelve chairs |
| two tables |
| three spittoons |
| a stretcher, bed, pillow, two bolsters, a blanket |
| a bason and jug |
In the pantry
| two meat cupboards |
| a large chest |
| a table |
| three earthen milk tubs |
| six tea trays |
| a lanthorn |
| ten cannisters |
| sixty dishes |
| eight dishes with covers |
| two soup tureens |
| two salad bowls |
| nine doz: plates |
| twenty small plates |
| four pickle cups |
| six water plates |
| two fish dishes |
| two small cases with flasks |
| a wooden knife tray |
| a butter tub |
| ten candle sticks of sorts |
| seven decanters of sorts |
| five glass sweetmeat pots |
| one bocaal |
| a coffy pot |
| three tea pots |
| a tobacco chafing dish |
| twenty four wine glasses |
| twenty four tumblers |
| nine salt cellars |
| eighteen cups and saucers |
| a plated cruet stand |
| a sauce stand |
| a copper kettle and chafing dish |
| a coffy urn |
| a milk pot |
In a back room
| a wardrobe |
| a stretcher, bed, bolster, two pillows and blanket |
| a window curtain |
| a table |
| a washhand bason and jug |
Up stairs
| some pumpkins and onions for consumption |
| a small quantity of wheat, barley and oats for the use of the family and cattle on the estate |
| a small quantity old rope |
| twelve chairs |
| a corn harp |
| a bird cage |
| twenty eight muid sacks |
| thirteen chaff sacks |
| three corn shovels |
| two scheepel measures |
| a coffy mill |
| three trunks |
| a large chest |
| thirteen plough shares |
| twelve jars |
| three baskets |
| to p:rs of sheep scissors |
| ten sickles |
| a large chest |
| three chests |
| a covered basket |
| thirty one China and stone jars of different sizes |
| a quantity stone bottles |
| a brass pump |
| a butter churn |
| a wafer iron |
| four small butter tubs |
| two copper boilers |
| a tart pan |
| a sauce pan |
| three copper jelly moulds |
| three earthen moulds |
| a pewter foot stool to contain warm water |
| a tub with salt for the use of the family |
| a case with flasks |
| a large bottle /:demion:/ |
| seven white dishes /:for milk:/ |
| six flat dishes |
| an old cruet stand |
| two China flower stands |
| a case with coffy for the use of the family |
In the kitchen
| three tables |
| a baking trough |
| a pot rack |
| a water cask |
| a large tea kettle |
| a pestle and mortar |
| four pot chains |
| four iron ladles |
| an iron fork |
| a scummer |
| eight iron pots |
| a butter churn |
| three buckets |
| two smoothing irons |
| a water halfaum |
| four baking pans |
| a copper jug |
| a small tub |
| an old sopha |
In an outside cellar n:o 1
| five large tubs |
| nine leaguers |
| three half leaguers |
| ten brick forms or moulds |
| two branding irons |
| one iron pot |
| three half aums |
| a butter churn |
| two meat tubs |
| two tables |
| a bread knife and stand |
| a meat cupboard |
| a copper wine cock |
| a funnel |
| two chairs |
| two flat wine tubs /:flootjes:/ |
| three spans /:osse riemen:/ |
| three spans /:stroppen:/ |
| a p:r of scales |
| five weights of 50 lb:s each |
| sundry small weights |
In an outside cellar n:o 2
| a hay press |
| three spans of yokes /:trektouwen:/ |
| a pot rack |
| a stone for grinding paint |
| a /:domkracht:/ |
| an iron tar pot |
| two hay knives |
| eight scythes |
| sixteen hay forks |
| six hay rakes |
| a tent |
| some sheep skins and bullock hides |
| a flour sifting machine /:buitelkist:/ |
| a large saw |
| a chaff seive |
| two large buckets |
| eleven planks of rose wood |
| a quantity of round beams for ploughs |
| two saddles |
| one pack saddle |
| four buckets |
In the smith's shop
| a carpenters bench with some tools |
| a pair of smith's bellows |
| an anvil |
| a anvil /:spierhaak:/ |
| a vice |
| sundry tools for the smiths shop |
| a large tub |
| two grinding stones |
Silver ware
| a soup ladle |
| nineteen table spoons |
| twenty forks |
| six gravy spoons |
| twelve silverhandle knives |
| four butter ladles |
| one fish knife |
| eighteen tea spoons |
| one sugar pot |
| one milk pot |
| two sweetmeat forks |
| a silver cup |
| a tobacco chafing dish |
In an outside cellar n:o 3
| a horse mill |
| a mill stone |
In the yards
| a large copper kettle |
| a large tub |
| a boat |
| three fishing nets |
| seven ploughs |
| two harrows |
| three bullock waggons |
| two horse waggons |
| a covered waggon |
| a water cart |
| a chaise |
| a large wooden roller |
| eight harnesses |
| eight harnesses /:seiltjes:/ |
| two house ladders |
In the stable
| eight waggon horses |
| two saddle horses |
In the crawl
| sixty nine draught oxen |
| thirty one heads breeding cattle |
| fifty two breeding horses |
| one hundred and thirteen Spanish breeding sheep |
| a quantity of spars and planks, also some lumber |
Slaves
| a male slave named Geduld of Mosambique aged 61 years, labourer, ruptured | |
| a male slave named Apollos of Mosambique aged 46 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Amor of Mosambique aged 41 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Abel of Mosambique aged 36 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named July of Mosambique aged 41 years, labourer | |
| 1 male slave named Cupido of Malabar aged 41 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Philip of Malabar aged 51 years, tanner | |
| a male slave named August of Mosambique aged 41 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Patientie of Mosambique aged 36 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Caesar of Batavia 41 years of age, labourer | |
| a male slave named Dollie of this Colony 44 years of age, carpenter | |
| a male slave named Esau of Mosambique 35 years of age, labourer | |
| a male slave named David of Mosambique 34 years of age, labourer | |
| a male slave named Africa of this Colony 26 years of age labourer | |
| a male slave named Hoop of this Colony aged 26 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Isaac of this Colony 25 years of age, labourer | |
| a male slave named Cobus of this Colony 24 years of age, labourer | |
| a male slave named Jan of this Colony 23 years of age, labourer | |
| a male slave named Klaas of this Colony aged 19 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Abraham of this Colony aged 13 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Willem of this Colony aged 16 years, labourer | Discount Bank for £205:10 9 Feb:y 1826 |
| a male slave named Adam of this Colony aged 13 years, labourer | F:N: Flamme ƒ21000 7 April 1826 |
| a male slave named Jephta of this Colony aged 76 years, labourer | |
| a male slave named Adonis of Malabar aged 46 years, a tailor | |
| a male slave named Troekie of Mosambique aged 31 years, cook | |
| a male slave named Novel of Mosambique aged 41 years, baker | |
| a male slave named Carolus of Mosambique aged 91 years | |
| a male slave named April of Mosambique aged 51 years | |
| a male slave named Lafleur of Malabar aged 71 years | |
| a male slave named Crecia of Mosambique aged 71 years | |
| a male slave named Apollos of this Colony aged 53 years and | |
| a female slave named Pamela of this Colony aged 51 years | |
| a female slave named Steyn of this Colony aged 41 years, housmaid and | |
| a female slave named Eva of this Colony aged 41 years, housemaid | |
| a female slave named Steyntje /2/ of this Colony aged 11 years | bequeathed to Geesje Petronella Maria aforesaid for the sum of 200rd:s |
| a female slave named Juliana of this Colony aged 19 years, housemaid | |
| a female slave named Flora of Mosambique aged 51 years, washmaid | |
| a female slave named Roset of this Colony 10 years of age | |
| a female slave named Roos of this Colony aged 9 years | |
| a female slave named Lea /2/ child of Steyn /1/ born [ ..... ] | |
| a female slave named Hanna child of Steyn /1/ born on the [ ..... ] | |
| a male slave named Alexander child of Eva /2/ born on the 6 April 1822 | Flamme ƒ21000 |
| a female slave named Francina child of Steyn /1/ born on the 7 February 1826 | |
| a female slave named Eva of this Colony /1/ aged 13 years | Flamme ƒ21000 7 April 1826 |
Claims in favor of the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| settled on the 29 August 1828 | from S:J: Mostert according to a note of hand dated 15 March 1826 | 1200:-- |
| paid the 28 Septb:r 1827 | from Harrington and Gadney on a promissory note dated 1 May 1827 | 1200:-- |
| settled on the 29 August 1828 | from S:J: Mostert according to a note of hand dated 2 January 1827 | 310:-- |
| settled with his counter claim paid 12 April 1828 | from J:G: Muller according to a note of hand dated 23 February 1827 | 2382:18 |
| it is hereby stated that said Muller has a counter claim against said estate of which a specific account will be given by him | ||
| from J:G: Frank van Reenen for the purchase of a bull | 100:-- | |
| from Dr Barry for 1000 lbs hay | 30:-- | |
| it is hereby further stated that there is an unsettled account between the deceased and his son Dirk Gysbert van Reenen |
Claims against the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| to the estate of the late J:M: Durr according to a bond ƒ11420 or | 3806:32 | |
| paid to M: Melk on the 9th May 1828 | to J:D: Karnspek according to a bond ƒ7000 or | 2333:16 |
| paid on the 11 February 1828 | to the widow H:k Vos according to a bond ƒ26500 or | 8833:16 |
| settled with J:G: Muller | to F: Flamme ƒ21000 | 7000:-- |
| paid on the 7 August 1828 | to the Lombard Bank ƒ6900 or | 2300:-- |
| paid on the 17 February 1828 | to the Treasury of the Cape District ƒ3600 | 1200:-- |
| in part rd:s1000 with the interest 12 April 1828; redepos: ƒ8000 until the 23 Jan:y 1829 | to J:G: Muller ƒ20,000 | 6666:32 |
| paid 14 M: 1828 | to wid: D: v: Breda ƒ11700 | 3900:-- |
| paid | to F: Rossouw ƒ2715 | 905:-- |
| paid 5 August 1828 | to the Discount Bank ƒ4200 | 1400:-- |
| interest paid up to 8 February 1828 - 4 March 1828 | to E:J: Oliviera ƒ15000 | 5000:-- |
| private bond dated 3 February 1826 paid in part ƒ8500 with the intrest thereon from 8 Feb:y last - 3rd June 1828 |
| £ | ƒ | |
| den boedel van Durr voor | 285:10 | 11420 |
| J:D: Karnspeck | 175:-- | 7000 |
| Bank v: Leening | 172:10 | 6890 |
| 't Kaapsch district | 90:-- | 3600 |
| weduwe D:k Vos senior | 662:10 | 26500 |
| F:N: Flamme | 525:-- | 21000 |
| de slavinne Candace of Batavia staat op den inventaris niet opgebragt en is by de Disconto Bank voor £285:10 verbonden |