MOOC8/44.11a
{18271022} 22 October 1827
Charles Johannes van Helsland Jeanette Francoise
Duminy
Inventory taken at the place called
Bokke
Rivier situated along the
Rivier Zonder
Einde in the district of
Swellendam of
all such property of Charles Johannes van Helsland and Jeanette Francoise
Duminy relinquished by the death of the firstmentioned on the thirteenth day of
the month of May 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 1:st May 1827 before the Notary Public Mr Jacobus
Petrus de Wet and witnesses, appointed his brothers and sisters abroad as his
sole and universal heirs or their descendants with this condition however that
the testatrix shall enjoy the interest thereof during her life time and after
her death to devolve on his aforesaid brothers and sisters. And has further
requested in said will the Board of Orphan Masters to be and to act as
executors of the said will and guardians over his abovementioned minor heirs,
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
At the aforesaid place
Bokkerivier .
Thus inventoried at the aforesaid place called
Bokke Rivier on the twenty second day of the month
of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
according to a statement made by the survivor and Mr Benjamin Jacob Wilhelm
Duminy who declared 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 by 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 with the property
so discovered.
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
De weduwe J: van Helsland geb:n Duminij, B:n Duminij
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| A house and premises in Cape Town, the before
mentioned place Bokkerivier , a perpetual
quitrent place called Blauweklip , a piece
perpetual quitrent land adjoining the place Bokkerivier , as also all the slaves and a part of the property
belonging to the estate has been already inserted in the inventory taken in
Cape Town |
In the passage
| five tables, sorted |
| twelve chairs |
| a mahogany wine case |
| thirteen pictures |
| three oval pictures |
| three window curtains |
| a watch rack |
| a tea box |
| four flower pots |
| a hand bell |
In the front room to the right
| a looking glass |
| a washand stand |
| a water jug and bason |
| seven pictures |
| a bedstead with curtains |
| two feather beds |
| two mattrass |
| two bolster |
| eight pillows |
| a blancket |
| a toilette |
| two chamber pots |
| a green table cloth |
| five small [table cloth] |
In the front room to the left
| a stitcher |
| a canapy of a bedstead with curtain |
| a mattrass |
| two pillows |
| a chamber pot |
| a clothes rack |
| a washand jug and bason |
| a ward robe |
| in a cupboard of the same room |
| a silver waiter |
| a silver tea pot and stand |
| a silver milk jug |
| a silver tea strainer |
| a silver cruet stand |
| twenty four silver table spoons |
| ten silver forks |
| fifteen tea spoons |
| two silver sweetmeat forks |
| a silver tea spoon |
| a silver soup ladle |
| two silver gravy spoons |
| a silver fish knife |
| two silver butter knives |
| a silver egg stand |
| a silver marrow spoon |
| a plated tea pot with silver edges and stand |
| a plated sugar pot |
| a plated milk jug |
| a plated sugar tongs |
| a plated mustard pot |
| a plated salt celler |
| a plated lequor stand with silver edges |
| six plated candlesticks |
| six plated decanter stands |
| two pair of snuffers and stands |
| four cut glass decanters |
| two cut glass water decanters |
| one cut glass water jug |
| five pint decanters |
| two glass sweetmeat pots |
| two glass butter pots |
| two glass salt sellers |
| one glass cooler |
| a glass bowl |
| twelve tumblers |
| twelve tumblers |
| twenty two wine glasses |
| nineteen liquor glasses |
| thirtyfive cups and 38 saucers /sorted/ |
| four puter tea spoons |
| two black earthen bowls |
| a black earthen melk jug |
| a black earthen sugar pot |
| a bread basket |
| a knife tray |
| five waiters |
| a tea cannister |
In an outside room n: 1
| a table |
| a window curtain |
| 1 stretcher |
| 1 rack |
In the pantry
| a meat safe |
| a chest |
| a churn |
| a coffee mill |
| two sieves |
| a smoothing iron |
| a puter tea urn |
| two copper bed candlesticks |
| a copper tea kattle |
| a brass tea kattle and chafing dish |
| a tin tea pot |
| a tin coffee pot |
| a pair of scales and beam |
| five dish covers |
| seven cannisters |
| eight earthenpots |
| eighty bottles |
| thirty six pint bottles |
| a quantity of flasks and kans |
| a glass flask |
| three white earthen pots |
| two white earthen jugs |
| two carving knives and forks |
| eleven ivory handle knives |
| twelve ivory handle dessert knives |
| twelve ivory handle forks |
| twelve ivory handle dessert forks |
| ten knives of sorts |
| eleven forks of sorts |
| ten dessert forks |
| two sleets |
| two brass bed candle sticks |
| two sauce pots |
| thirty dishes of sorts |
| seven pie dishes |
| nine dishes with covers |
| two souptureens |
| two salled bowls |
| two basons |
| eleven small pots |
| seventy eight plates |
| a quantity cake forms and a sausage spout |
In the kitchen
| a kitchen table |
| a baking trough |
| a pot rack |
| a set of candle moulds |
| a chopping block |
| a water halfaum |
| sixteen iron pots |
| a water mug |
| a sauce pan |
| a copper sweetmeat kettle |
| a tart pan |
| a baking pan |
| two water kettles |
| a pestle and mortar |
| a wooden [pestle and morter] |
| five baking pans |
| two wafer iron |
| a oblie iron |
| a colander |
| a chopping knife |
| a grid iron |
| two cake pans |
| a iron fork |
| two skimmer |
| a ladle |
| four pot chains |
| three hooks |
| two kitchen hooks |
| a tripot |
In the celler
| a large fermenting tub |
| four small fermenting [tub] |
| a treading tub |
| a draining tub |
| two leaguers |
| ten wine pipes |
| four aulms |
| a vinegar cask |
| four halfaulms |
| a brandy cask |
| three ankers |
| a half [ankers] |
| a funnel |
| five pails |
| a melk pail |
| four harnest cask |
| two salting tubs |
| a churn |
| a brandy cask |
| six baskets |
| six gin cases |
| three cases packt |
| five [ ..... ] (damsaars) |
| forteen jars of sorts |
| six kans |
| a wine pump |
| a painters slab |
| a quantity of rubbish |
| seven leaguers of wine |
| a half [leaguers] of brandy |
In the loft
| a corn harp |
| two scheepels measures |
| a waggon stretcher |
| eight ox hides |
| twelve sheep skins |
| twenty goat skins |
| eight muid sacks |
| a piece of junck |
| nine muids wheat |
| seven muids barley |
| a quantity Indian corn |
In the barn
| five gellow wood planks |
| a skin sack |
| a harness rack |
| a set of harness |
| a set of harness (zeeltjes) |
| some hundred bundles of tatchen straw |
| a muid of salt |
| six muids of Bengal wheat |
In an outside room n: 2
| a table |
| a arm chair |
| a arm chair defective |
| a foot stool |
| a small stretcher |
| a mattrass |
| a rack |
| a trunk |
| a box |
| a glyster bank |
| a gun |
| a pistol |
| four swords |
| a saddle |
| a book rack with some French and English books |
| a large French Bible |
In a wall case
| some bottles and flasks of medicines |
| a powder horn |
| three curtains |
In the work shop
| two axes |
| a pit saw |
| a saw |
| a sash saw |
| a plough plane |
| a iron vice |
| three trowels |
| a set hammer |
| two hammer |
| five waggon poles |
| a [ ..... ] (lankwagen) |
| four sheep shares |
| eighteen hoops |
| a frame |
In the stable
| a young stallion |
| seven naves |
| three pieces of stinkwood |
In the waggon house
| a covered horse waggon |
| a covered bullocks waggon |
| a open bullocks waggon |
| a boat rope |
In the distillery
| two brandy stills |
| three coolers |
Upstears in the house
| three drawers |
| two flour casks |
| a stove |
| a waggon box |
| two large trunks |
| a chest |
| ten boxed of sorts |
On the outside
| two ladders |
| a watering pot |
| a rake |
| a pick |
| a pick ax |
| a crow bar |
| six spades |
| two shovels |
| three wooden rakes |
| six wooden forks /gaffels/ |
| a [ ..... ] /hoos/ |
| twelve sickles |
| two corn shovels |
| six wine bocks |
| two ploughs |
| a harrow |
| fifty two geese |
In the crawl
| twelve waggon horses |
| forty one breeding mares |
| a [breeding mares] by Mr N: Linde |
| a [breeding mares] at the place Zoetemelks Valley |
| a saddle horse |
| twenty nine draught oxen |
| thirty five breeding cattle |
| two bulls |
| seven hundred and thirty Spannish sheep |
| one hundred and five goats |
