Elizabeth Johanna du Toit
FREDERIK FORTUNATUS KOLBE'S WIFE, and the mother of the Settler's Colesberg grandchildren — a woman this archive did not know existed until the index was asked for a relationship rather than a person. She is named at eight fonts across eighteen years and three churches, and her name holds steady at every one but Hopetown. NOT YET FOUND: her marriage and her parents. 17 SEPTEMBER 2026 — HER DEATH IS FOUND, AND SO IS A BIRTHPLACE NOBODY HAD. Pietermaritzburg estate files: “ELIZABETHA JOHANNA DU TOIT KOLBE, BORN 1845 BREDARSDORP K PROVINSIE, DIED 12 JULY 1923, SAXONY UTRECHT NATAL”, probate 1923 — FamilySearch 1:1:QLRL-HRQV. SHE DIED ON A FARM ON THE NATAL BORDER, six years before her husband, SEVEN HUNDRED MILES FROM THE BREDASDORP SHE WAS BORN IN. Her estate names the same nine children as his. THE FILE ITSELF IS NOT READ.
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The record
| Name | Elizabeth Johanna du Toit |
| Also written | Elizabeth Geertruida du Toit, once, at the Hopetown font in 1870 |
| Born | 1845, Bredasdorp, Cape Province |
| Died | 12 Jul 1923, the farm “Saxony”, Utrecht, Natal |
| Line | Kolbe |
| Confidence | Documented |
What the archive holds
FREDERIK FORTUNATUS KOLBE'S WIFE, and the mother of the Settler's Colesberg grandchildren — a woman this archive did not know existed until the index was asked for a relationship rather than a person. She is named at eight fonts across eighteen years and three churches, and her name holds steady at every one but Hopetown. NOT YET FOUND: her marriage and her parents. 17 SEPTEMBER 2026 — HER DEATH IS FOUND, AND SO IS A BIRTHPLACE NOBODY HAD. Pietermaritzburg estate files: “ELIZABETHA JOHANNA DU TOIT KOLBE, BORN 1845 BREDARSDORP K PROVINSIE, DIED 12 JULY 1923, SAXONY UTRECHT NATAL”, probate 1923 — FamilySearch 1:1:QLRL-HRQV. SHE DIED ON A FARM ON THE NATAL BORDER, six years before her husband, SEVEN HUNDRED MILES FROM THE BREDASDORP SHE WAS BORN IN. Her estate names the same nine children as his. THE FILE ITSELF IS NOT READ.
The documents
…The method → 1923 and 1929 · Two estate files at Pietermaritzburg name nine children, and the daughters by their married names This archive knew that Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe , the Settler’s tenth child, married Elizabeth Johanna du Toit and baptised eight children between Colesberg, Hopetown and Bethulie; and that three of them turned up at Wakkerstroom , four hundred miles north. It had no death for either parent and had followed three of the children nowhere at all. The Natal estate index answers all of it in one search.…
The Kolbes
…Three of the eight end up four hundred miles away, in the eastern Transvaal. Frederik Fortunatus Kolbe , born at the Bethulie mission station in 1839, married Elizabeth Johanna du Toit . This archive did not know she existed until 14 September 2026. She is named at eight fonts across eighteen years, and her name holds steady at every one of them but Hopetown, where the clerk wrote Geertruida .…
The Marriages
…1859 17 Feb 1891, Hoopstad, Orange Free State — aged 32 Charlotte Kolbe 1811 1867, Lambeth — probably Coenraad Johannes Otto Werdmuller — 1882 — death notice KAB MOOC 6/9/187, 4160; will MOOC 7/1/431, 102 Daniel Jakobus Kolbe 3 May 1893 19 Jun 1918, Wakkerstroom — aged 25 Elizabeth Johanna du Toit 1845, Bredasdorp, Cape Province 12 Jul 1923, the farm “Saxony”, Utrecht, Natal Elizabeth Johanna Kolbe 1 Mar 1876, baptised 11 Jun 1876 at Colesberg — Elizabeth Kolbe of Westminster bapt. 29 Dec 1795, ST ANNE’S SOHO — Francis McCabe 29 Sep 1817, a military post in what became British Kaffraria 23 Feb 1872, the Modder River road, district Bloemfontein Frederica Carolina Kolbe bapt.…
The People
…The Transvaal probate index also holds a SUSANNA MARGARETHA DOWNING KOLBE, unattached, which would make a second carrier of the London surname; this archive cannot yet say whether that is her daughter or another woman. The Wakkerstroom stones The Women The Kolbes Elizabeth Johanna du Toit also written Elizabeth Geertruida du Toit, once, at the Hopetown font in 1870 Documented 1845, Bredasdorp, Cape Province 12 Jul 1923, the farm “Saxony”, Utrecht, Natal FREDERIK FORTUNATUS KOLBE'S WIFE, and the mother of the Settler's Colesberg grandchildren — a woman this archive did not know existed until the index was asked for a relationship rather than a person.…
Elizabeth Johanna du Toit
…She is named at eight fonts across eighteen years and three churches, and her name holds steady at every one but Hopetown. NOT YET FOUND: her marriage and her parents.…
The Register
…1862 · bef. Mar 1935 no public link reconstructed by this archive Elizabeth Anna Bronkhorst reconstructed — no public link reconstructed by this archive Elizabeth Johanna du Toit reconstructed 1845, Bredasdorp, Cape Province · 12 Jul 1923, the farm “Saxony”, Utrecht, Natal no public link reconstructed by this archive Elizabetha Margaretha Marais reconstructed c.…
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