Family Tree for the Perth Morkel Family

Compiled by André Theron Morkel. November 2008 Data from PW Morkel 1961 The Morkels. Family History and Family Tree

Photos of signatures in the Cape archives by Daniel Jacobs Photos from Die Bos and Our Family

Symbols used: * born; ~ baptized; x married; xx second marriage; † died.

a1 Philip Morkel *27.2.1677 (Date uncertain) Hamburg Germany, † Onverwacht, Hottentots Holland 12.4.1735 x 25.3.1708 Maria Biebow ~25.3.1708 † 1731 xx 17.11 1713 Catharina

Pasman ~ 17.8.1691 +29.3.1764.

Signatures: Philip Morkel and Catharina Pasman

Children of Philip Morkel and Maria Biebow:

b1 Elizabeth ~1710 +1752 x Wouter de Vos 5.9.1728 xx Johannes Louw 11.5.1732

Children of Philip Morkel and Catharina Pasman

b2 Sophia Margaretha ~ 1.9.1715 † 1793 Meerlust x Johannes Albertus Mijburgh 10.2.1743

b3 Willem ~ 25.1.1718 † 1788 Onverwacht x Sara van Brakel, xx Helena Catharina

Malan

a1b3 Willem Morkel ~25.12.1718 †Onverwacht 1788 x 11.5.1749 Sara van Brakel ~ 11.11.1716 †

28.3.1759 xx 22.7.1759 Helena Catharina Malan (Morgenster) ~ 11.3.1736 † 27.10.1825.

Signatures: Willem Morkel and Helena Catharina Malan

Signature: Helena Catharina Malan, Weduwe (Widow) Morkel

Children of Willem Morkel and Sara van Brakel:

c1 Catharina Adriana ~20.8.1752

c2 Catharian Adriana ~ 15.7.1753

c3 Catharina ~10.11.1754 † 9.2.1816 x 13.8.1772 Jacobus Malan xx Rudolph Johannes

Laubscher 5.2.1780

Children of Willem Morkel and Helena Catharina Malan:

c4 Philip Hendrik ~ 6.7.1760 + 1831 Morgenster x Johanna Petronella Malan

c5 Willem *21.9.1761 ~29.10.1762 +29.10.1821 Voorburg x Anna Margaretha Wium

c6 Daniel Johannes ~ 2.9.1764 † 15.8.1825 Onverwacht x Hester Sibella Keeve, xx Maria

Dorothea Louw c7 Hercules ~ 8.2.1767 † 1808 Welgelegen Somerset West x Helena Munnik

c8 Maria Elizabeth ~ 12.2.1769

c9 Maria Sophia ~ 18.3.1770

c10 Helena Catharina ~ 21.3. 1773 † 5.5.1852 x Philippus Albertus Mijburgh

a1b3c6 Daniel Johannes Morkel ~ 2.9.1764 † Onverwacht 15.8.1825 x Hester Sibella Keeve ~

17.12.1676 † 13.1.1792 xx 6.9.1793 Maria Dorothea Louw ~17.12.1775 † 1801 xxx Sophia

Alida Brink ~25.4.1808 †19.11.1824

Signatures: Daniel Johannes Morkel and Maria Dorothea Louw

Children of Daniel Johannes Morkel and Hester Sibella Keeve:

d1 Aletta Jacoba ~ 9.11.1788

d2 Hester Catharina ~ 6.2.1790

Children of Daniel Johannes Morkel and Maria Dorothea Louw:

d3 Willem ~ 7.8.1791 † 2.8.1796

d4 Willem ~ 8.2.1795 † 2.8.1796

d5 Hester Anna ~ 10.8.1796 † 28.10.1864 Parel Vallei Somerset West x Pieter Gerhard

Mijburgh

d6 Willem Hendrik ~ 20.8.1797 † 26.5.1799

d7 Hendrik Johannes * 1798 ~ 23.6.1799 † 14.2.1859 x Catharina Jacoba Theunissen d8 Daniel Johannes ~19.7.1801 † 20.10.1843 x Anna Elizabeth van der Bijl Cloete

d9 Willem *3.6.1803 ~ 1.7.1804 † 27.12.1876 Morgenster x Isabella Margaretha

Zeederberg

a1b3c6d7 Hendrik Johannes Morkel *1798 ~23.1799 † Onverwacht 14.2.1859 x 10.6.1821 Catharina Jacoba Theunissen (Vergelegen) ~ 18.9.1803 † Dec 1831 xx 2.6.1832 Esther Elizabeth Morkel,

~ 1.8.1813 † 31.12.1880.

Photo and signature: Hendrik Johannes Morkel 8 March 1837

(Catharina Jacoba Theunissen’s photo and signature are not available)

Children of Hendrik Johannes Morkel and Catharina Jacoba Theunissen:

e1 Daniel Johannes * 15.7.1822 ~ 25.8.1822 † 12.8.1879 x Emmerentia Elizabeth

Malan * 4.6.1822 † 25.9.1902 . e2 Marthinus Wilhelmus Theunissen *24 4.1824 † 9.4.1825

e3 Hendrik Johannes Louw 16.12.1825 † 3.4.1889 x Elizabeth Anna Morkel

e4 Sara Catharina 10.2.1827 † 19.7.1902 x 23.6.1846 Daniel Jacobus Malan

e5 Marthinus Wilhelmus Dirk Theunissen *date? † 29.8.1875 x Christina Johanna

Petronella Dempers

e6 Willem Pieter * 14.6.1830 †1910 x Emmerentia Elizabeth Theunissen

Children of Hendrik Johannes Morkel and Esther Elizabeth Morkel

e7 Esther Leonora Louw * 12.10.1833 † 31.7.1837

e8 Maria Dorothea Louw * 29.11.1834

e9 Pieter Loreth Gerhard * 1.5.1836

e10 Esther Leonora Louw (Aunty de Jongh) * 28.12.1837 † 29.2.1920 x Hendrik Christiaan

de Jongh

e11 Jan Willem *8.1.1839

e12 Maria Dorothea Louw *19.7.1840

e13 Philip Hendrik Johannes *21.9.1841 †18.6.1910 x Maria Goudrica Freislich

e14 Adriaan Hermanus Louw * 24.10.1842 † 17.11.1888

e15 Johannes Albertus * 3.6.1844 ~14.7.1844 † 8.12.1894 x Hester Anna Mijburgh

e16 Unchristened child

e17 Jacobus Johannes *6.1.1848

e18 William Herman *13.12.1849 ~13.3.1850 x Martha Maria Mijburgh

e19 Pieter Gerhard Loret *27.2.1853 ~!1.5.1853 † 26 12.1853

a1b3c6d7e1 Daniel Johannes Morkel * 15.7.1822 ~ 25.8.1822 † Onverwacht 12.8.1879 x Emmerentia

Elizabeth Malan *4.6.1822 † 25.9.1902.

Photo and signature (1869): Daniel Johannes Morkel

Photos and signature: Emmerentia Elizabeth Malan as De Wed. (Widow) D.J. Morkel

Children of Daniel Johannes Morkel and Emmerentia Elizabeth Malan

f1 Hendrik Johannes Louw * 23.3.1847 ~2.5.1847

f2 Daniel Jacobus * 3.6.1849 ~15.7.1849 † 2.10.1856

f3 Alida * 17.9.1851 ~19.10.1851

f4 Hendrik Johannes Louw * 6.5.1854 ~25.6.1854 † 6.5.1926 x Helena Catharina

Philippina Mijburgh

a1b3c6d7e1f4 Hendrik Johannes Louw Morkel * 6.5.1854 ~25.6.1854 † Onverwacht 6.5.1926 x

28.5.1878 Helena Catharina Philippina Mijburgh (Parel Vallei) * 22.3.1860 † 21.11.1940.

Photo and signature (26 Feb 910): Hendrik Johannes Louw Morkel

Signature: Helena Catharina Philippina Morkel (neé Mijburgh)

Children of Hendrik Johannes Louw Morkel and Helena Catharina Philippina Mijburgh

g1 Daniel Johannes * 14.5.1879 ~ 22.6.1879

g2 Esther Leonora (Tant Essie) * 13.8.1885 (probably a typo in the Genealogy - would

likely be 1880)

g3 Johannes Albertus (Oom John - Onverwacht) * 27.3.1882 x Antoinette Maria Malan xx

Hester Anna Maud Morkel

g4 Emmerentia Elizabeth (Tant Dolly) * 22.11.1883 ~13.1.1884 x 18.4.1914 Philippus

Albertus Faure (Oom Bertie) farming at Vergenoegd, Faure station between Somerset

West and Cape Town

g5 Hendrik Johannes Louw * 16.12.1887 ~29.1.1888 (If I remember family stories right,

he drowned at 16 years during a fishing trip at Kogel Bay with the family)

g6 Helena Catharina (Tant Nellie) * 29 10.1889 ~15.12.1889 x Frank Leigh Smuts,

solicitor Frankfort, Orange Free State

g7 Alida (Tant Alie) 10.9.1891 ~ 1.11.1891 x Andreas Bernhardus Theron anaethesist

Johannesburg

g8 Maria Dorothea Louw *23.10.1893 ~ 17.12.1893 Died young.

g9 Daniel Johannes * 30.9.1895 ~ 16.7.1895 † 16.7.1945 x Catharina Elizabeth Theron

g10 Maria Dorothea Louw (Tant Maraaitjie) * 20.4.1897 ~ 17.10.1897 x 26.5.1924

Albertonie Herman Broeksma (Oom Broeksie)

g11 Sophia Margaretha (Tant Magriet) *4.1.1899 ~5.3.1899 x Albertonie Herman Broeksma

(after the death of sister g10)

g12 Dirk Ruben * 2.6.1902 ~ 14.9.1902. Died young.

a1b3c6d7e1f4g9 Daniel Johannes Morkel (my father, Dan - Altena) * 30.9.1895 Onverwacht ~ 30.9.1895 † 16.7.1945 x 28.6.1924 Catharina Elizabeth Theron (my Mother, Kitty) *

15.3.1899 † 10.7.1980

Photo Daniel Johannes Morkel (Dan)

Photo and signature (14 May 1926): Daniel Johannes Morkel

Signature on his father’s death certificate

Photo at the time of their wedding of Dan and Kitty Morkel

Daniel Johannes Morkel and Catharina Elizabeth Morkel (neé Theron)

Kitty’s signature 24 July 1945 – Dan’s death certificate

Children of Daniel Johannes Morkel (Dan) and Catharina Elizabeth Theron (Kitty):

h1 Hendrik Johannes Theron * 2.9.1926 x Patricia Geeringh

h2 Charl Theron *8.4.1928 ~ 3.6.1928 † 20.9.1994 x Lindi Sadie

h3 Daniel Theron *12.7.1929 x Nita Heydenrich

h4 André Theron *11.9.1932 x Barbara Elise Retief

a1b3c6d7e1f4g9h4 André Theron Morkel *11.9.1932 Altena, Strand, South Africa x 25.5.1963 Barbara Elise Retief * 25.9.1936 i1 Daniel Retief Morkell * Pretoria 8.4.1965 x 13.12.1997 Katrina Moore * 25.7.1971

Shepparton, Victoria

j1 Thomas John * 14.7.2004

jl Anna Lucy 26.7.2006

i2 André Retief *Johannesburg 14.3.1967

i3 Philip Retief * Pretoria 29.6.1969 x 6.8.2005 Michaela Fender * Sölden, Austria.

j1 Sophia

i4 Charl Retief * Pretoria 22.7.1974 x 10.12.2005 Valerie Ginette Gisele Graff * 23.3.1968

Bourges, France

j1 Heidi Barbara Graff * Perth 19.10.2005

j2 Paige Christiane

Family Photo at Daniel and Katrina’s home October 2008 André, Phil (holding Sophia), Katrina Daniel, Thomas

Michaela, André (Snr) Barbara (holding Anna), Heidi, Valery, Charl Baby Paige in front.