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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Johan David Warneck, Table Valley, Roeland Street, Cornelia Catharina, Spasie, Saterjan, Doortje, Rasia, Frans, Cornelia, Francois of Mosambique, Francois, April of Bengal, Cornelia, Cornelia
MOOC Reference: MOOC8/44.72
MOOC8/44.72
{18290312} 12 March 1829 Johan David Warneck Abichael Catharina de
Wit
Correct with the books of the Slave Office, N: 9
Most of claims in favor of the estate for calling in the capitals in the
hands of T:B: v: Willigen 18 Aug:t 1829
Inventory of the property of Abichael Catharina de Wit and her predeceased
husband Johan David Warneck relinquished by the death of the first mentioned on
the fifth day of the month of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty nine.
The deceased having by her last will and testament executed with her
predeceased husband on the 2 day of the month of June 1818 before the Notary
Public Mr Jacobus Petrus de Wet and certain witnesses and codicil executed by
the deceased on the 5:th February 1824 before the Notary Public Willem Adriaan
Wentzel and certain witnesses after having bequeathed several legacies
appointed as her sole and universal heir Thomas Marthinus Schoester /whose
inheritances is entailed with fidei commis: in same will and has further
requested and appointed the Board of Orphan Masters to be and to act as
executors.
In consequence whereof the undersigned commissioned Member of the Orphan
Board have taken the joint estate under proper inventory and found the same to
consist in the following, viz:t
At the house of Mrs the wid: Adriaan Smuts, the late residence of the
deceased
Thus done and inventoried at the house aforesaid at the Cape of Good Hope
on the 9:th March 1829 according to a statement made by Thomas Marth:s
Schoester, Simon P:s Wolhuter and the wid: A: Phaup who declared to have acted
herein bonafide and that to the best of their knowledge they have not withheld
of 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 and will faithfully communicate it to the Orphan
Chamber in order to amplify this inventory with the property so discovered.
In witness whereof I, the Commissioner, together with the appearers and
the Secretary have subscribed to these presents.
As Commissioner: W:m Hayward
T:M: Schoester, S:P: Wolhuter widow A: Phaup, A:C:M: Schoester
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
Ampliation
Orphan Chamber 12 March 1829
T:H: Silvester
| Certain house and premises situated in this Table Valley on Roeland Street being part marked Lit: G: of the property of the late widow J:A: Neumeister which the deceased has desired in her will should be left unsold for the use of the heir during his live time | |
| a picture | |
| a looking glass | |
| a bedstead with curtains | |
| a feather bed | |
| a pillow | |
| three cushions | |
| two covers and a coverlet | |
| a table | |
| two card tables | |
| a writing desk | |
| six chairs | |
| a ward robe which contains the following articles | |
| six silver table spoons | |
| six silver forks | |
| a soup ladle | |
| six tea spoons | |
| sixteen knives with silver handels | |
| a sugar pot, silver | |
| a sugar caster with silver top | |
| a chaven dish | |
| eicht plates | |
| five basons | |
| two milk pots | |
| a coffy and sugar pot | |
| a tea caddy | |
| four small boxes | |
| nine bottels | |
| a lot of cotton wadding | |
| three and twenty sheets | |
| thirty six pillow cases | |
| a set of bed curtains | |
| nineteen sifts | |
| ten petty coats | |
| nineteen spencers | |
| ten stays | |
| a cloak | |
| four pockets | |
| forty five handkerchiefs | |
| nineteen towels | |
| four gowns | |
| two shawls | |
| nine caps | |
| twenty p:r of stockins | |
| nine fans | |
| two p: of gloves | |
| twelve pieces of linnen | |
| a Bible | |
| sixteen books | |
| two cannisters | |
| a leader box | |
| a waiter | |
| a winder | |
| two shawls | bequeathed to Louisa Schoester wid: of A: Phaup and Adeleina Christina Schoester according to above codicil |
Slaves of the estate
| Saterjan born 16 Octob: 1816 | |||
| Doortje born 10 Sep: 1818 | |||
| Rasia born 6 April 1821 | |||
| Frans born 8 July 1824 | |||
| a female slave n:d Cornelia of this Colony 80 y:s of age, housemaid | left to her option to serve whom she shall pleace according to a codicil dated 5:th February 1824 | ||
| a male slave n:d Francois of Mosambique 54 y:s of age, labourer | |||
| manumitted on the 11 Aug:t 1829 | a male slave April of Bengal 42 y:s of age, houseboy |
Claims in favor of the estate
| ƒ | Rd:s | ||
| from Carel Johannes Lotz on a mortgage bond dated 21:st Decemb: 1827 | 2000 | 666:32 | |
| interest since 21 Decemb: 1828 | |||
| in the hands of the attorney Octob: 1830 | from Johan Christoffel Adendorff on a mortgage bond dated 30 Decemb: 1825 | 4000 | 1333:16 |
| interest since 15 Decemb: 1828 | |||
| from Johan George Muller on a mortgage bond dated 31 May 1822 amounting per balance | 35000 | 11666:32 | |
| interest since 1:st Octob:r 1828 - 1830 29 November interest paid up to 30 September 1830 | |||
| from Helena Catharina Morkel widow Philippus M:s Myburg on a notarial bond dated 22 July 1828 | 6000 | 2000:-- | |
| interest since 22 July 1828 | |||
| from Simon Petrus Wolhuter on a notarial bond dated 25 Septemb: 1823 amounting to | 3000 | 1000:-- | |
| interest since 25 Septemb: 1828 | |||
| from Pieter Loedolff on a notarial bond dated 17 April 1827 | 3000 | 1000:-- | |
| interest since 24 Aug:t 1828 | |||
| from P:G: van den Byl Andries s: on a private bond dated 20 May 1825 | 500:-- | ||
| interest since 1:st June 1828 | |||
| from P:G: van der Byl on a private bond dated 1 May 1826 | 100:-- | ||
| interest [ ..... ] | |||
| from Stephanus Malan on a private bond dated 31 August 1798 | 500:-- | ||
| interest since 31 Aug:t 1828 | |||
| from P:P: Minnaar on a private bond dated 18 April 1823 | 1000 | 333:16 | |
| interest since 18 April 1828 | |||
| from the widow A: Smuts on a private bond dated 4 September 1828 | 100:-- | ||
| interest since 4 Sep:r 1828 | |||
| from the wid: A: Smuts on a private bond dated 25 June 1824 | 500:-- | ||
| interest since 25 June 1828 | |||
| paid 30:th Julij 1830 | from the Rev:d Johan Hend:k von Manger on a private bond dated 15 Sep: 1827 per balance | 74:18 |
Claims against the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| paid 22:d Octob: 1829 | to Louisa Schoester widow of Andrew Phaup bequeathed | 500:-- |
| paid 12 March 1829 rd:150, 23 Octob: 1829 Rd: 350 | to Adelaide Christina Schoester bequeathed | 500:-- |
| to Louisa Catharina Wolhuter daughter of Johanna Elis Schoester and S:P: Wolhuter | 500:-- | |
| according to the codicil dated 5 February 1824 the legacy to J:D: Schoester revocated by the codicil of the 24 Decemb: 1828 | ||
| to the female slave of the deceased named Cornelia of the Cape according to said codicil of the 5 Feb:y 1824 in order to tend for the expence of her funeral | 100:-- | |
| to the female slave of the deceased named Cornelia to be paid out of the interest which will accrue from the inheritance of the heir of the deceased according to codicil of the 24 Decemb: 1828 ten rd: per month to the five children of Johan Coenraad Steyn s:r procreated in wedlock by Susanna Marg:a Steyn, according to the last will and testament of the deceased /:the one of Johan Coen Steyn having been revocated by codicil of the 24 Decemb: 1828:/ the said five children are named | ||
| paid 2:d Septem: 1829 | Anna Elizabeth | 200:-- |
| Dorothea Catharina | 200:-- | |
| paid 15 January 1830 | Johanna Christina Wilhelmina | 200:-- |
| Joh:a Jacoba Cornelia | 200:-- | |
| married with C:J: Lotz who is indebted ƒ2000 | Petronella Eliz:th Jacoba | 200:-- |
| paid in the month of Julij | to the Orphan House according to said will | 333:16 |
| paid 24:th Septemb: 1829 | to the Missionary Society established in the year 1799 according to same will | 333:16 |
| Rd:s | ||
| in the hands of the attorney Octob: 1830 | from Joachim Wilhelm Heyneman on a notarial bond dated 17 January 1822 ƒ4000 | 1333:16 |
| interest since 17 January 1829 | ||
| from Johan Coenraad Steyn on a private bond dated 1 Decemb: 1804 | 500:-- | |
| interest since 1:st Decemb: 1825 | ||
| from Johan Coenraad Steyn on a private bond dated 24 Octob: 1823 without stipulation of interest | 60:-- |