Catharina Maria Pretorius

Catharina was born in 1819.  Catharina's father was Mathys Cornelis Pretorius and her mother was Wilhelmina Christina Kruger.  Her paternal grandparents were Wynand Pretorius and Maria Catharina Coertze. She had two brothers and four sisters, named Wynand, Johannes, Maria, Wilhelmina, Anna and Johanna.  She was the fourth oldest of the seven children.  She died at the age of 78 in 1897.