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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Tygerberg, Pampoenekraal, Samoor of Malibaar, Worcester
MOOC Reference: MOOC8/43.28
| 1) Petrus Johannes born 25 October 1813 |
| 2) Johannes Jacobus born 11 Apr: 1815 |
| 3) Johanna Maria Isabella born 6 July 1817 |
| 4) Maria Catharina Johanna born 29 March 1819 and |
| 5) Constand Daniel Johannes de Wit born 2 October 1820 |
| Two pieces of land with the buildings erected thereon situate in the vicinity of Tygerberg at Pampoenekraal |
| one piece of land adjacent to the aforesaid pieces of land |
| one bureau |
| one wardrobe |
| one bedstead |
| one looking glass |
| seven tables |
| eleven chairs |
| a large chest |
| a small chest |
| one trunk |
| two pictures |
| three feather beds |
| ten pillows |
| two counterpains |
| one blancket |
| five iron pots |
| two grid irons |
| a small [grid irons] |
| a frying pan |
| two scummers |
| a iron fork |
| three iron ladels |
| two cases |
| a close stool |
| three cannisters |
| two water tubs |
| four buckets |
| four small tubs |
| a quantity of crokery ware |
| three empty gin cases with flasks |
| eighteen forks |
| eight knives |
| seven spoons |
| two soup spoons |
| two small cases |
| a vice and some carpenters tools |
| a quantity of shoomakers tools |
| three spades |
| a pick and two rakes |
| a crow bar and 1 leaver |
| a pair of scales and beam and |
| a pair of scales and beam and waights |
| a quantity of spars |
| five pieces of plank |
| a quantity of bamboes |
| a quantity of tatch straw |
| four candle sticks |
| an iron |
| a tea urn |
| a tea kettle and chavendish |
| a water kettle |
| a watch /silver/ |
| a pastel and mortor |
| three decanters |
| five wine glasses |
| five beer glasses |
| some empty bottles and flasks |
| a lanthorn |
| a spy glass |
| a sieve |
| seven padlocks |
| the deceased wearing apparel left to the widow for the use of her children |
| a slave boy named Samoor of Malibaar |
Claims in favour of the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| deducted from his counter claim | from P: Sandenbergh on a promissory note | 88:-- |
| from the widow Sandenberg as per specific bill | 72:30 | |
| from Michiel van Niekerk M:S as per specific bill | 51:36 | |
| from S:G: van Nikerk as per specific bill | 44:-- | |
| from D:H: Vogelgezang as per specific bill | 7:42 | |
| from D: van Reenen Jacob:s as per specific bill | 4:24 | |
| from A: Rossouw G: son on a promissory note | 3:-- | |
| from J:J: Uys as per: bill for sundray articles | 530:10 |