f.2. Louisa Sophia, geb. 1855, Vlakkerug, afd.
Malmesbury, oorl. 13/08/1919, Riebeek-Wes, dist. Malmesbury x 22/04/1872, Riebeek Wes met Isaac Johannes
Jacobus SMUTS, geb. 1949, Ongegund, afd. Malmesbury, oorl. 24/03/1926, van der
Stel Losieshuis, Strand, dist. Stellenbosch, s.v. Michiel Smuts en Adriana van
Aarde.
Sophia was die dogter van Benjamin van der Westhuizen en Hester Sophia Smit.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1901.
Haar naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1901.
Woon: Riebeek-Wes.
Ongegunt was a mixed wine and stock farm
situated between Riebeeck Kasteel and Malmesbury. First documented in 1708, the
transfer of 1727 (T122 17.3.1727) indicated that the 60 morgen property was left
by their father to Jacobus and Andries van der Heyde. It remained in the extended
family line for another 105 years until being sold to Michiel Nicolaas Smuts in 1813
(T 198 15 .10.1813), Three inventories recorded the contents of this farmstead in 1750 (Aletta
Nobel and Sybrand, van Dyk MOOC817.51), 1788 (Sara van der Westhuysen and
Johannes de Waal MOOC8/50.39) and 1812 (Johannes Burger and Margaretha Louw
MOOC8/28.61). 1be inventoried layout of the house did not
change from the four-roomed dwelling first recorded with voorhuis, rooms to right and left
and kitchen. It was probably in the form of the common T-plan house but may have been rebuilt. The inventories recorded a rural household
of the middling sort of farmer. Hendrik de Waal's father was certainly
a rich man but the de Waals at Ongegunt were
still a young couple when she apparently died in childbirth with their second
child- who survived. Farm labour was supplied by eight male slaves in 1750 and there
was only one woman slave, and similarly in 1788 there were eleven men slaves
and one woman. The 1812 list was more descriptive so we learn that eight men
slaves included a wagon driver, coachman, shepherd and gardener and there were four women
slaves. Deeds Office information showed that the farm
was quickly passed on from person to person in the 19th century. Andries Gobregt's
daughters married Johannes Abraham Burger and Jacobus Andries Louw and the farm
passed from Gobregt first to Louw (Tl63 26.8.1808) and then to Burger (Tll
2.2.1810) and then to Burger's brother Petrus (T 164 18.9 .1812) and after his death
it was sold to Michiel Smuts who had recently married Maria Magdalena van der Byl (Tl98
15.10.1813). There was a dramatic drop in price from f39500 in 1808 to
f18000 in 1810, and then it shot up again to f43000 in 1812. Fransen and Cook (1980:253) suggested that an
H-plan house was built by Smuts in about 1815 but it seems that rebuilding may
already been started. For instance, a zolder was first listed in 1812 and the number
of farm outbuildings increased with the addition of a stable, wagon house and
buitenvenrek. The voorhuis in a four-roomed farm house like
this acted as entrance hall, reception and eating area. Racks on the wall held copper
and pewter spoons in 1750 and porcelain in 1788 but there were none in 1812.
There were also wall-cupboards in the voorhuis in 1788 that contained glassware, and
twelve turned (gedraayde) chairs were particularly pointed out by the appraisers. In
1812 the wall-cupboards were gone, or not rebuilt, because they were presumably no
longer in fashion as tableware was not displayed here. A rustbank is listed both in
1750 and in 1812 in the voorhuis. The front rooms were simply furnished with
emphasis on the left-hand one. In 1750 the bed was accompanied by a desk with silver
spoons and forks and jewellery in it, a large chest of clothes, two tables and eight
chairs. There was a tea kettle there too. In 1788 a cabinet replaced the desk and chest, and
two white earthen chamber pots were mentioned but it is difficult to know if they
were tin-glazed refmed earthenware or coarse earthenware with pale glaze. It is
unlikely that they were Staffordshire creamware at this date. In 1812 the room had
become more crowded. There were two beds, two tables and nine chairs, a wardrobe
held clothes and the tea machine was on a table but there was also much tableware of copper,
pewter, dishes and plates, bowls and pots and glasses. The most valuable items
of furniture apart from beds were the groat kist (with brass fittings) in the front
room in 1750, a cajatonhoute cabinet in 1788, and klederen kast in 1812. The other front room may have been a smaller
room, used as a store in 1750 and 1788, and only by 1812 housing a couple of beds, gun
rack and two chairs. The kitchen iri 1750 and 1788 contained the copper, pewter and
iron utensils for food preparation but in 1812 the tableware had been removed to the
living room. Tablewares at Ongegunt in 1750 were dishes, plates and a bowl and were
of pewter only and kept in the kitchen. In 1788 a rack and wall-cupboard in
the voorhuis held porcelain and glassware but pewter was still in the kitchen,
and in 1812 the voorhuis had a shelf with porcelain pot and pewter coffee pot on it, but
the (unspecified) tableware and glassware were in the front room along with the tea
machine. (https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/21617/thesis_sci_1993_malan_antonia.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)
Kinders:
g.1. Michiel SMUTS
g.2. Hester Sophia SMUTS x Daniel Bosman.
g.3. Maria Christoffelina SMUTS x Marthinus Brink.
g.4. Adriana Margaretha SMUTS x David Krynauw.
eGGSA library Gravestones in South Africa Weskaap : Western Cape Western
Cape, MALMESBURY, Urban area Western Cape, MALMESBURY, Old cemetery W -
Surnames starting with the letter W WESTHUIZEN Petrus Johannes, van der
1853-1943 & Anna E. UYS 1855-1939
