FW de Klerk, nasaat van Jacob Kützer - Martie's Foyer
FW de Klerk, nasaat van Jacob Kützer
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Toe Jacob Kützer in 1709 in die Kaap geland het, het hy nie geraai dat een van sy nasate eendag die president van Suid-Afrika gaan wees nie.
Hier is ‘n kort weergawe van FW de Klerk se Coetzer/Coetser stamboom.
Jacob KüTZER (1671-1733), seun van Wenceslaus KüTZER. Hy is reeds 38 jaar oud toe hy in 1709 as ‘n soldaat vanaf Reichstadt (Zakupy), Bohemia, Oostenryk in die Kaap opdaag. Die Afrikaner Familienaamboek gee sy herkoms aan as ‘Setry naby Weenen in Oostenryk’. In 1713 word hy ‘n Boerkneg en in 1714 ‘n Vryburger.
Op 15 September 1717 trou Jacob in Stellenbosch met Cornelia HELM, wat reeds twee eggenotes aan die dood afgestaan het. Haar eerste man was Jan van den Bosch, vir wie sy drie kinders in die wêreld gebring het. Haar tweede man was Arie (Adriaan) van Wyk. By hom het sy tien kinders gehad. Vir Jacob baar sy twee kinders - Johannes Jacobus en Dorothea.
Cornelia is op 17 September 1673 gebore. Op 21 Junie 1720 , in die ouderdom van 47, sterf sy na ‘n kort siekbed. Sy was die tweede oudste kind van die Hollandse egpaar, Hans Helmis en Geertruy Willemse.
In 1722, op 51-jarige ouderdom, trou Jacob vir 'n 2de keer. Dié keer met die bloedjong, 19-jarige Susanna Snyman (1703-1740). Sy was die dogter van Christoffel Snyman en Marguerite-Therese de Savoye. (Die geskiedenis van Christoffel en Marguerite-Therese sal ek in 'n afsonderlike artikel verskaf.)
Susanna bring vir Jacob agt kinders in die wêreld – vier dogters en vier seuns. Sy sterf in 1740 op 37-jarige ouderdom - sewe jaar ná Jacob wat in die ouderdom van 62 oorlede is.
b1. (Jacob en Cornelia se oudste seun): Johannes Jacobus COETZER (c1716-1787) x (15.2.1739) Maria BOTHA (1722-1740) Maria sterf slegs 'n jaar nadat sy met Johannes getrou het, kort na haar eerste kind - 'n dogter - se geboorte. Johannes trou 6 jaar later, op 27.11.1746 met Johanna NEL (c1725-?), dogter van Pieter Willem NEL & Aletta VAN DEVENTER. Jacob en Johanna het 14 kinders.
c10. (Johannes se tiende kind, Johanna se negende): Wenzel Christoffel COETZER (26.4.1761-1842) trou op 16.3.1785 met Jacoba JORDAAN (1768-1857) - Hulle het 10 kinders en woon in Swellendam. (Dit is hierdie Wenzel se familie en huis wat beskryf word in "Narratives and Adventures of Travellers in South Africa" saamgestel en gedruk deur Porter & Coates [Philadelphia]). Lees 'n uittreksel HIER
d5. (Wenzel en Jacoba se vyfde kind): Jacob COETZER (1798-1837) x (6.8.1820) Anna Sophia ERASMUS (1805-1888). Sy is een van 'n tweeling en trou ná Jacob se dood met Hendrik Stephanus Pretorius.
e6. (Jacob en Anna se sesde kind): Jacobus Erasmus COETZER (1831-1914) x (1859) Elizabeth Catharina Jacoba Johanna BUITENDACH (1838-1902). In 1902, op 64-jarige ouderdom, sterf Elizabeth in die konsentrasiekamp by Springfontein. Jacobus trou daarna met Andrisina Cecilia Jacoba JOOSTE. Hy sterf in 1914 in die ouderdom van 83 jaar. Andresina sterf eers 19 jaar later in 1933.
f3. (Jacobus en Elizabeth se derde kind): Frederik Willem COETZER (1860-1938) x Anna Maria Margaritha GREYLING (1864-1898) xx (1903) Anna Cecilia FOUCHE (1883-1931) xxx (1936) Anna Jacoba Dorothea PRETORIUS [weduwee Maree] (1886-1960).
g7. (Frederik se sewende kind, maar die eerste vir die 21-jarige Anna Cecilia): Hendrina Cornelia Coetzer (1904-2001) trou in 1927 met Johannes (Jan) DE KLERK (1903-1979). Jan is aanvanklik 'n onderwyser, maar betree die politiek en word later Minister, Sekretaris van die Nasionale Party, President van die Senaat en, in 1975, Interim Staatspresident van SA. Hierdie egpaar is die ouers van FW de Klerk.
h2. (Tweede kind van Hendrina [Coetzer] en Jan de Klerk): Frederik Willem DE KLERK (18.3.1936-?) Suid Afrika se Staatspresident vanaf 1989 tot 1994.
FW de Klerk was die laaste president van die Nasionale Party. Sy bydrae tot die beëindiging van Suid-Afrika se Apartheidsbeleid het daartoe gelei dat hy in 1993 saam met Nelson Mandela die Nobelprys vir Vrede ontvang het.
FW het vyf ooms en drie tantes aan moederskant. Een van sy tantes se name was Emily Hobhouse Coetzer. Sy is in 1906 gebore, slegs 3-4 jaar nadat Emily Hobhouse wondere op die gebied van verpleging in die konsentrasiekampe verrig het.
Koop FW de Klerk se biografie HIER.
Lees my artikel "The History of South Africa in only 4000 words" HIER
​© Martie Coetser
12/30/2015 07:22:10 am
Baie interesant en uitstekende navorsing.
1/2/2016 10:21:38 pm
Barend, ek is bly jy dink ook so!
4/27/2019 05:06:44 pm
Very interesting. Very interesting. Trying to gather infomation on my family. My father was William Humphries Stephen Coetzer, born at Kei Road, Stutterheim district on 14/05/1919, and his father was Wentzel Christoffel Coetzer, born 09/07/1892, where I don't know, A family member said Krugersdorp, but it would seem unlikely. Who my great grand parents and their forebears were I would like to know, if possible please. Many thanks.
4/28/2019 10:56:57 am
What I do have in your branch are -
b1c10d1e4. Wentzel Christoffel COETZER * 30.10.1814 ~ 14.2.1815 @ Caledon † 19.2.1901 (86) agv Bladder Infection @ Komga, Cape Province x (23.12.1838) Johanna Petronella HUMPHREYS (Hanna) * 14.3.1822 @ Boschfontein, Bedford, Somerset-East † 9.8.1897 (75) aan longontsteking @ Komga (daughter of William Stephen Humphreys & Martha Louisa van der Nest.
f1. Johannes Jacobus COETZER * 7.2.1840 ~ 22.3.1840 @ Glen Lynden x niggie Helena Cloudina BOTHA
f6. Wentzel Christoffel COETZER * 16.7.1849 @ Stormberg District ~ 30.9.1849 @ Tarka † 8.6.1904 (54) from Blackwater Fever @ Kwaggashoek Farm, Melsetter, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)  Kwaggashoek, Farm Cemetery x (1880) Herculina Johanna Sophia STEYN (g5h1) * 8.7.1859 @ Tarkastad † 18.6.1948 @ Quaggashoek, Umtali, Rhodesia. (daughter of Johannes Gerhardus Frederik Steyn & Herculina Johanna Sophia Steyn. (PS: Some sources provide this Wentzel's date of birth wrongly as 25.8.1845.)
f9. William Humphrey Stephanus COETZER * 5.2.1855 ~ 3.6.1855 @ Tarka † 11.2.1933 (78) from Heart Attact @ East London. Last residence: 23 Bayswater Road, East London x Catharina Gertrude Maria NN † na 1933.
f11. Gideon Frederik Johannes COETZER * 27.8.1858 ~ 31.10.1858 @ Cradock x cousin Cornelia Aletta Catharina JANSE VAN RENSBURG
f13. James John COETZER * 29.12.1862 ~ 22.2.1863 @ Glen Lynden † 23.4.1933 (71) @ Stutterheim x Johanna J NN
f14. Petrus Jochemus Prinsloo COETZER * 17.2.1865 ~ 28.5.1865 @ Glen Lynden † 7.6.1940 (75) @ East London x apparently Anna Maria Jacomina NN
All of them had sons and grandsons named Wentzel Christoffel Coetzer.
Unfortunately I have not yet found the one who was born on 09/07/1892.
PLEASE help me by providing the names of his wife and children. (Your father, William Humphries Stephen Coetzer, was one of his sons.)
4/28/2019 11:07:05 am
The direct ancestors of b1c10d1e4 Wentzel Christoffel COETZER * 30.10.1814 was:
d1. Johannes Jacobus COETZER * 25.2.1786 ~ 27.5.1787 @ Cape Town † 7.5.1878 (91) @ Jordaanskraal, Cradock
x cousin Magdalena Elizabeth COETZER (b1c5d4) * 1789 † 1810
xx (14.10.1810) Catharina Margaretha PRINSLOO * 17.5.1793 † 1876
c10. Wenzel Christoffel COETZER * 31.1.1760 @ Zwagers Hoek ~ 26.4.1761 @ Tulbach † 11.12.1842 (82) x (16.3.1785) Jacoba JORDAAN (Jacoba Sophia Jordaan??)
b1. Johannes Jacobus COETZER ~ 24.5.1716 @ Paarl, Cape Winelands † 17.8.1787 (71) @ Drakenstein xx (27.11.1746) widow Johanna NEL ~ 24.12.1730 @ Stellenbosch † 1772 (42) @ Overberg, Swellendam (daughter of Pieter Willemse Nel and Alletta Van Deventer)
His great-great grandfather, our SA/PROG:
Hans Jacob COETZER (Jacob) ~ 25.7.1682 @ Zakupy (Reichstadt), Bohemia † June-July 1.7.1742 (65) @ Drakenstein, SA (son of Wentzel KüTZER & Susanna WEISS) x (15.9.1714) Cornelia HELM ~ 17.9.1673 @ Cape of Good Hope † c.15.6.1720 @ Drakenstein (47) (daughter of Hans Helm and Geertruij Willemse; widow of Jan van den Bosch and Adrian van Wijk).
In my kapasiteit as 'n vryskutskrywer en 'n afstammeling van Jacob Kützer (die stamvader van die Coetzers en Coetsers in Suid-Afrika) deel ek graag relevante inligting met my mede-afstammelinge.
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In my capacity as a freelance writer, and a descendant of Jacob Kutzer from Austria - the progenitor of all Coetzer and Coetser families in South Africa, I love to share relevant information with relatives in here.