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575:(amongst others), was born in 1825, the son of PG van der Byl. He married twice: in 1847 to Gezina Wilhelmina Constantia Marais, the daughter of Charles Gerhardus Marais of the wine estate Old Nectar in the Jonkershoek Valley (one child 1848); married again in 1869 Sara Christina Munnik Cloete.
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were illiterate, the surname was regularly misspelled in registries and other official records and thus there are a number of variations of the surname in South Africa, e.g. Coetzee, Coetse, Coussé. Coetsenburg is often incorrectly spelt
Coetzenburg. A branch of the Coetsee family became
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Charles Gerhardus Marais. He was born on Coetsenburg in 1851. In 1880, along with his brothers he combined several mining companies to establish the Kimberley Central Mining Company which later merged with
586:. He was a member of the Cape parliament from 1899 till his death. He owned the Lion Distillery (now Van Rhyn's Distillery) on Vlottenburg Estate and the Malmesbury Voogdy en Assuransiemaatskappy. In 1915, he co-founded
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50:. The estate has historically been owned by the Coetsee family and is currently not open to the public. The north-western portion of the original estate is now the
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NEWTON-KING, SUSAN (1 August 2017). "Sodomy, Race and
Respectability in Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, 1689 — 1762: The Story of a Family, Loosely Defined".
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built the
Coetsenburg Manor House which is now a national monument not open to the public. In the same year, Van Der Stel promised land higher up in the
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Christoffel van der Byl of the prominent Van Der Byl family, which were interrelated with the Coetsee family and owned wine estates like
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Château (Castle) of
Couches as well as the medieval Château (Castle) of Dracy-lès-Couches. The Château de Couches is located in the commune of
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Couches), Couches: a bit of history, magazine "Images de Saône-et-Loire" n° 20 (December 1973), pp. 3-7.
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Brigitte Colas, To put an end to
Marguerite de Bourgogne at Couches; Edited by the Center of Castellology of Burgundy, 2014.
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Françoise
Vignier (dir.), The Guide to the Castles of France, 71 Saône-et-Loire, Éditions Hermé, Paris, 1985.
365:, to grace its streets and homesteads. One gains access to the estate via Coetsenburg Road which crosses the
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and his son Gerrit Coetsee, include Andries Christoffel Van Der Byl and Johannes Henoch "Jannie" Marais.
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onto the slopes of the Stellenbosch Mountain, which is part of the
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granted him land in 1682 which he named Coetsenburg.
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310:The Coetsenburg Estate lies on the banks of the
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263:(Herengracht House) in the Herengracht (now
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342:scenery. Stellenbosch is the second oldest
72:Jannie Marais House at Coetsenburg Estate
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427:Dutch Governor of the Cape Colony
403:Hottentots-Holland Catchment Area
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997:"#1 Stellenbosch Art Gallery"
877:"Ontmoet die Familie Coetzee"
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1156:Leander (15 November 2016).
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405:and, to the south-east, the
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108:words “Coetsee s’n Burg”, a
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354:due to the large number of
255:in 1679 aboard the Asia, a
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596:University of Stellenbosch
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56:University of Stellenbosch
52:Coetsenburg Sports Grounds
505:(due to the abundance of
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1182:tinashe (30 June 2011).
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324:Western Cape province
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1158:"Simon van der Stel"
739:"Definition of BURG"
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