MOOC8/46.99 - GERSWYK, DRAKENSTEIN, PAARL DIAMANT, STELLENBOSCH, JEPHTA (2) OF MOSAMBIQUE, THE PONT, BERGRIVIER, PAARDEBERG, KERSWYK, PAARL

MOOC8/46.99 {18320411} 11 April 1832 Daniel David Kreynauw Exh:d the 18th of April 1832, n:o 35 Inventory of all the property belonging to the estate of the late Daniel David Kreynauw relinquished by his death ab intestato on the 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two in favor of his children, here undermentioned, procreated by him in marriage with his predeceased wife Maria Susanna Durandt, viz: which aforesaid property having been inventoried on the spot by the undersigned commissioned Masters of the Orphan Board was found to consist as follows, viz: Household furniture Thus inventoried at the place Kerswyk near the Paarl on the 11th day of April 1832 according to a statement made by Elizabeth Catharina Kreynauw, widow of Johannes Andries Grundeling, sister of the deceased, who declared to have acted herein bonafide and that to the best of her knowledge she has not withheld or secreted anything that belonged to the aforesaid estate, and the said appearer further declared that she is and will at all times be ready and willing to confirm her statement or oath if required promising at the same time that if after the date of these presents any property of this estate might be discovered, she will truthfully communicate the same to the Orphan Chamber in order to this inventory being amplified therewith. In witness whereof we, the Commissioners, written with the appearer and me, the Secretary, have subscribed to these presents. As Commissioners: J: Brand, C: Blanckenberg d wed: E: Grundling In my presence: A: Tennant, Sec:

1) Daniel David born on 1 May 1818

2) Elizabeth Johanna Jacoba born on 24 March 1819

3) Maria Susanna Wilhelmina born on 1 May 1820

4) Catharina Johanna Wilhelmina born on 3 August 1822

5) Martha Carolina Jacoba born on 26 October 1826

6) David Pieter born on 12 Dec: 1828

7) Johanna Wilhelmina born on 26 Feb: 1831

Landed property

The freehold place called Gerswyk situated in the district of Drakenstein - last of the Paarl Diamant - in the Stellenbosch district, measuring as per remaining extent 42 morgen and 35 square roods, together with a piece of perpetual quitrent land annexed thereto in extent 175 morgen and 514 square roods

In the hall

12 cane bottomed chairs

3 tables

In a room on the left hand

5 chairs

a bedstead with bedding, curtains etc:a complete

2 wardrobes

1 table

1 watch and chain

In a room on the right hand

1 bedstead with bedding, curtains, etc:a complete

1 stretcher with matrass and bedding, etc:a for 2 stretchers

1 chest

1 basket

1 gun with flask- leather pouch for shot

2 hatsticks

1 carpenter’s table

1 saddle and bridle

2 buckets

In an inner room

1 table

3 empty liquor cases

2 chests

1 bread knife and coffee stick

scale and weights

3 smoothing irons

1 lantern

6 sickles

5 axes

1 mincing knife

1 pestle and mortar

5 pruning knives

lot of old iron

6 cans

5 pots and two jugs

1 tart pan

1 iron pot

1 wooden stamper

1 mincing board

6 candle moulds

1 seive

4 tubs

8 baskets

2 tubs containing dried raisins

2 basket measures

1 wooden roller

In the kitchen

1 water halfaum

3 buckets

4 iron pots

2 roasters

1 kettle

1 kitchen spoon and 1 fork

2 skimmers

4 chimney chains

1 frying pan

In the loft

1 cradle and 1 stretcher

1 warming basket

1 night stool

lot of old iron

a small quantity of corn, oats and barley and rice

2 shovels

In the pantry

1 lot of white crockery

a few knives and forks

3 copper candlesticks

1 pair of snuffers

a few empty bottles

1 small tub

4 trays

a few tea cups and saucers

7 pewter spoons

1 soup ladle

1 plated cruet stand

1 copper kettle

1 tea urn

1 copper coffee can

2 pewter tea pots

2 kettles

1 pewter basin and jug

1 sucker

1 funnel

1 shoot

1 tin pot

4 tin cases

Silver

9 silver tea spoons

2 silver forks

2 gold buckles

2 gold shirt buttons

2 silver shirt buttons

2 silver buckles

15 silver waistcoat buttons

1 silver stamp

wearing apparel of deceased

In the wine cellar

6 stuckvats containing wine

1 treading tub

4 fermenting tubs

13 leagers containing wine and brandy, viz: 11 1/2 of wine and 1 1/2 brandy

half a leager of old wine

half a leager of vinegar

half a pipe of brandy

1 empty half aum

1 aum containing brandy

a flat tub

3 funnels

1 copper cock

4 buckets

4 spades

2 iron crows

1 grape sak

3 cans

4 picks

18 yokes and harness (trektouw)

3 wooden mallets

1 chest with carpenters tools

1 brandy still complete

1 marking iron

1 tin funnel and 1 tin jug

1 large iron pot

1 screw

In the stable

7 draught horses

2 pigs

In the wagon house

1 horse wagon

1 ox wagon incomplete

1 cart incomplete

harness for 8 horses

2 ploughs

1 [ploughs] defective

1 harrow

1 ladder

window and door frames

wagonmakers wood

2 tar tubs

6 fruit frames

1 lot of wood

some thatching straw

Slaves

Lakey of this Colony about 42 years of age, a husbandman

Jephta (1) of this Colony about 34 years of age, a husbandman

David of Mosambique about 36 years of age, a husbandman

Jephta (2) of Mosambique about 31 years of age

Claims in favour of the estate

included in the vendueroll	Adriaan Louw Jan’s son near the pont Bergrivier - 2 horses, 2 hundred bundles of thatch and straw and 3 bushels of oats (to be paid in kind)
	Matthys Greef of Paardeberg - 3 muids of corn (to be returned in kind)

Claims against the estate

	Rd:s
Magdalena Maria Kreynauw - funeral expenses of the deceased	53:4