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🔎 MOOC8 Inventory for Cornelia Elisabeth Besuydenhout, Groot Rivier, Winterhoek, Uitenhage, Victorie, Winterhoek
MOOC Reference: MOOC8/46.80
| Maria Elizabeth Erasmus married to Johannes Gerhardus Henricus van Enwegen |
| Johannis Marthinus Andries, born 17:th September 1813 |
| Lourens Daniel Johannis born 15:th September 1815 |
| Carolina Elizabeth born 20:th October 1817 |
| Cornelia Elizabeth born 25 September 1819 |
| Anna Christina born 1:st August 1821 |
| Johanna Sophia Geertruyda born 8:th August 1822 |
| Salomon Jacobus Petrus born 2:nd March 1826 |
| Jacoba Magdalina born 14:th September 1828 and |
| Abel Hermanis Erasmus born 28 July 1830 |
| a slave woman named Victorie about 30 years of age, born in this Colony, housemaid |
| 2 ox wagons |
| 11 chairs |
| 2 tables |
| 2 chests |
| 5 casks |
| 3 buckets |
| 4 cooking pots |
| 1 bedstead |
| 1 bed |
| 10 plates |
| 6 forks |
| 6 spoons |
| 6 empty bottles |
| 3 dishes |
| 1 saw |
| 2 plains |
| 1 chissel |
| 1 vice |
| 1 saddle |
| 1 breeding mare |
| 2 young horses |
| 2 20 ft in yellow wood planks |
| 2 spades |
| 1 crowbar |
| 1 axe |
| 1 kettle |
| 1 grinding stone |
| 1 gridiron |
| 42 draught oxen |
| 154 head of breeding cattle |
| 1448 sheep and goats |
| 2 4 1/2 gallon casks |
| 1 candlestick |
Outstanding debts due to the estate
| Rd:s | ||
| Jan Dysel | 50 | |
| collected by agent | H:C: Janse van Rensburg | 200 |
| collected by agent | Dirk Lus | 60 |
| collected by agent | Jacobus Swanepoel | 100 |
| collected 48 r: on acc:t | H: Hyman | 19 |
| d: 48 over acc:t | Johannis Vermaak | 95 |
| collected by agent | Wessel Lourens Swenster | 70 |
| Rd:s | 594 | |
| Cash found in the estate - this sum was erroneously counted by the Fieldcornet. It should be £29:16:6. See late aunt’s explanation of 31 March 1832 - exhibited 18 April 1832 | 400 | |
| Rd:s | Rd:s994 |