MOOC8/45.139
{18310312} 12 March 1831
Louis Nel ,
Dina Carolina
Oosthuisen
A true and perfect inventory of all and every the goods, chattels wares,
etc:a, as well moveable as not debts, credits and other personal effects of the
late Louis Nel and surviving widow Dina Carolina Oosthuisen, which former was
murdered at the place
Konka’s Fontein in the
Nieuweveld in this district on the 28:th June
1828 between the hours of 7 and 8 o clock p:m: and given up as follows,
viz:
Thus done and registered in the town of
Beaufort on Saturday the 12:th day of March 1831, in
the presence of Hartwig Johannes Luttig and Joseph Kirsner to the statement of
Dina Carolina Oosthuisen widow of said Louis Nel, who declared in her above
statement of the estate to have acted honestly and truly that nothing has been
held back to the best of her knowledge and belief and to be at all times ready
if called upon to solemnise the same by oath. Further promising and binding
herself in the event of any thing else belonging to the estate coming to her
recollection and knowledge to amplify this with the same.
For the statement: Diena Carolina Oosthuijsen w: Nel
Witnesses: J: Kersner, H: Luttig
J:J: Meintjes, A:O:C:
Copy
On this the 12:th March 1831 appeared before me J:J: Meintjes Agent to the
Orphan Chamber at
Beaufort Dina Carolina
Oosthuisen widow of the late Louis Nel, residing at
Zwarteberg , this district, who states:
The articles, namely the waggon, guns and chest mentioned in the inventory
are in the possession of the Field Commandant Redelinghuis of the
Nieuwe Hanton ,
Worcester district, as I have been informed by a
letter from the Field Commandant Pieter Daniel Jacobs of the
Nieuweveld of this district.
The two mares and one horse I have given up in the inventory I have been
obliged to sell for my immediate maintenance after I had escaped from the place
Konkasfontein where my husband had been
murdered on the 28:th June 1828.
The debt against De Neys is the amount of a butcher’s bill passed by Frans
Caverneels for cattle bought from my husband and the said bill has alse been
taken away amongst my other possessions.
At
Beaufort 12:th March 1831
Witness (signed): Dina Carolina Oosthuysen w: Nel
Sig:d J: Kersner
Signed/: J:J: Meintjes Ag:t to the Or: Chamb:
A true copy: J:J: Meintjes, Orph: Camb: Agent
Copy
Beaufort den 12:e Maart 1831
Myn heer!
Ik heb u edele te melden dat ik door den commandand Redelinghuis van het
district
Worcester , een brief heb ontvangen,
waarin hy meldt dat door zekere bastaards van de
Groote Rivier by hem zyn aangebragt, een wagen, en
twee schietgeweeren, welke medegevoerd zoude geworden zyn, door den benden die
wylen Louis Nel en zyn kinderen hebben vermoord.
Ik heb de eer te zyn, myn heer, u edelen dienaar
P:O: Jacobs
A true copy: J:J: Meintjes, Orph: Chamb: Agent
Den Heer J:J: Meintjes, Agent der Weeskamer
Beaufort| one ox waggon |
| two guns |
| one waggon chest |
| two mares and one horse |
Ready money
Credits of the estate
| | Rd:s |
| from Adriaan de Neys the amount of butcher’s
bill | 210 |
Debts of the estate
Heirs of the estate
| 1) Gert Cornelis Nel born 12 February 1821 (murdered 28 June
1828) |
| 2) Johannes Jacobus Nel born 1 January 1823 (murdered 28 June
1828) |
| 3) Louis Nel born 12 December 1824 (murdered 28 June 1828) |
| 4) Aletta Catharina Johanna Nel born 10:th March 1826 |
| 5) Louis Nel born 9:th September 1828 |