Johanna Magdalena Willemse

Johanna was born about 1779 and her baptism took place on September 5th, 1779 in Stellenbosch.

• Birth Notes

  "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VFR1-CDR : accessed 10 Nov 2012), Beatrix Maartens in entry for Johanna Magdalena Willemse, 1779.

Johanna's father was Nicolaas Casparus WILLEMSE  and her mother was Beatrix Maartens.  Her maternal grandparents were Lourens Maartens and Martha Visser. She had three brothers and two sisters, named Nicolaas, Casparus, Johannes, Mattheus and Maria.  She was the second oldest of the six children. She had three half-brothers and two half-sisters, named Christiaan, Johan, Hermanus, Anna and Beatrix.