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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Bay Street, Januarij of Mosambique, Meford of Batavia, Gerrit, Matthys, Eva, Betje, Jane, Rachel, Rebecca, Carel, Meford, Martha, Rachel, Moos, Meford, Paarl
MOOC Reference: MOOC8/44.8
MOOC8/44.8
{18281106} 6 November
1828 Helena Catharina
Krugel
Friday 28 Nov: 1828
Inventory of all such property as have been relinquished by the death of
Helena Catharina Krugel formerly married to Pieter Roux and now separated wife
of the late reverend Johan Wilhelm Ludwich Gebhard on the fifth day of the
month of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
eight.
The testatrice having by her last will and testament executed on the 13
July 1826 before the Notary Public Rynier Beck and certain witnesses after
having bequeathed several legacies appointed as her sole and universal heirs,
namely
and in the event of their demise their lawfull descendents by
representation and has further in aforesaid will appointed the Board of Orphan
Masters of this Colony to be and to act as her executors administrators and
guardian over the minor heirs.
In consequence of which the aforesaid property has been duly inventoried
by the inventoried by the undersigned special Commissioners from the Orphan
Board and was found to consist in the following, viz:t
Thus done and inventoried at the Cape of Good Hope on the 6:th of Novemb:
1828 at the house aforesaid according to a statement made by Miss [ ..... ]
Watney and Pieter Watney who declared to have acted herein bonafide and that to
the best of their knowledge they have not withheld or secreted any thing that
belongs to the aforesaid estate, promising at the same time if after the date
of these presents any property belonging to the said estate might be
discovered, will 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 me
the Secretary have subscribed to these presents.
As Commissioners: J: Brand, C: Blankenberg
P: Watney, M: Watney
In my presence: J:J:L: Smuts
| 1) Maria Wilhelmina de Waal widow John Pigott Watney /deceased/ in the one, and |
| Pieter Watney and |
| Maria Josina Christina Watney |
| A house and erf situated in Bay Street N: 28 |
| a sofa |
| a tea table |
| a silver tea urn |
| a silver bason |
| a silver teapot |
| two silver trays |
| a silver melkpot |
| a silver soup ladle |
| twelve silver spoons |
| twelve silver forks |
| four silver tea spoons |
| a carpet |
| two foot stools |
| a standing watch |
| two silver candlesticks |
| one silver sugar pot |
In the hall
| one dining table |
| eight chairs |
| a small cubboard |
| two decanters |
| a butter pot |
| two sweetmeat pots |
| ten cups and saucers |
| ten soup plates |
| twelve plates |
| four covered dishes |
| a soup turien |
| eight dishes |
| eleven knives |
| twenty four forks |
| a coffy pot |
| two salt cellars |
| five glasses |
| four wine glasses |
Up stairs
| two bed steads |
| one stretcher |
| one looking glass |
| an easy stool |
| three bedings complete |
| a washhand stand |
| one large chest |
| one table |
In the kitchen
| a table |
| four pots |
| one pan |
| two pails |
| a soup ladle |
| a grid iron |
| as also, a gold snuff box bequeathed to the aforesaid Pieter Watney |
| a ward robe bequeathed to the aforesaid Miss [ ..... ] Watney |
| a white shall bequeathed to Mrs Anna Elizabeth Catharina Verschuur wife of aforesaid P:r Watney |
| a red shall bequeathed to the aforesaid Miss [ ..... ] Watney, the clothes of the deceased and linnen to be divided between Miss [ ..... ] Watney and Mrs Watney aforesaid |
Slaves of the estate
| Januarij of Mosambique 52 y:s of age, labourer | |
| emancipated Decemb: 1828 | Meford of Batavia about 44 y:s of age to be emancipated according to a codicil dated 26 Septemb: 1828 |
| Gerrit of this Colony 16 y:s of age bequeathed according to a codicil dated 26 Septemb: 1824 to the aforesaid P: Watney | |
| Matthys of this Colony 14 y: of age bequeathed as above to Miss [ ..... ] Watney | |
| Eva 14 y:s of age | |
| Betje born 4 April 1819 | |
| Jane born 15 May 1817 | |
| Rachel of this Colony 46 y:s | |
| Carel b:n 6 Sep: 1821 | |
| Meford born 8 Octob: 1823 | |
| emancipated Decemb: 1828 | Martha of this Colony 48 y:s of age to be emancipated according to said codicil of 19 July 1824 |
| Moos born [ ..... ] | |
| Meford born 17 Oct: 1828 |
Claims in favor of the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| taken over bij the Orphan Chamber in behalf of Maria Josina Christina Watneij | from Willem Izaak Louw on a mortgage bond dated 27 January 1826 amounting to ƒ30840 | 10280:-- |
| interest from 1:st March | ||
| paid the capital with interest, 17 Jan:ry 1829; produced a receipt that the interest is paid to 17 January 1829 | from Hermanus Lambertus Bosman on a notarial bond dated 31 January 1824 ƒ10000 | 3333:16 |
| interest since 17 January 1828 | ||
| from Andries Jacobus Burgers on a notarial bond dated 9 June 1823 | 864:-- | |
| interest since 25 July | ||
| from William Duckett on a notarial bond dated 26 March 1823 amounting in capital per balance | 5400:-- | |
| interest since 28 Feb:y 1828 | ||
| from Johan Martin Guslin on a notarial bond dated 15 March 1823 | 1600:-- | |
| interest since 28 Feb:y 1828 | ||
| from Johannes Nicolaas Hausman on a notarial bond dated 2 May 1823 amounting to r:1400 which bond has been bequeathed by said will of 13 July 1826 to him the same Hausman | [ ..... ] |
Claims against the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| paid 5:th June 1829 | to Maria Elizabeth Hausman wid: of Jacobus Coenradie as a legacy according to the aforesaid will ƒ5000 | 1666:32 |
| paid 16 Januarij 1829 | to Pieter Eduard Hauman as a legacy according to the aforesaid will ƒ5000 | 1666:32 |
| paid 17 Sep:r 1829 | the Reformer Church in this town | 500:-- |
| paid 7:th March | the Missionary Society in this town | 500:-- |
| received six months interest up to the 5:th instant, 8 May 1829 | to Helena Catharina Krugel widow of Johannes Jacobus Jacobs as a legacy according to the aforesaid will entailing with fidei commis | 1000:-- |
| paid 15:th October 1824 | to the church at the Paarl on condition that the tombe in which her remains will be placed shall be kept in proper state of repair according to the aforesaid will ƒ1000 | 333:16 |
| to Pieter Watney as an equivalent for a ward robe bequeathed to Miss Watney | 200:-- |
Cash found in the estate
| Rd:s | |
| one thousand five hundred rix dollar /say/ | 1500 |