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  • The fact that Elsie's children married Gerrit's children and not the offspring of her other brother and sister may have had to do with lack of opportunity rather than a plan to create particular affiliation only with her brother Gerrit.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • They left Kruismansrivier in Gerrit's company and journeyed an easy ten kilometers to the Groene Valleij farm, where Jacobus Gildenhuizen and his wife Anna Maria Koekemoer ran a household of some means. 35 When Alida visited, Groene Valleij's abundant herds and flocks placed the Gildenhuizens well above the middling ranks of stock farmers. 36 Four slaves — three men and one woman — provided labor to help with both livestock and cultivation.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Antoinetta, the widow of Joachim Scholtz, had previously been married to Ary van Wyk, Willem and Gerrit's cousin.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Elisabeth's presence on the farm, along with Gerrit's absent children, suggests a certain fluidity among frontier households.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Gerrit's major point was not consensus, but the "irrational exuberance" that so many observers have expressed in watching the KMT shove Taiwan into China's orbit.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • Gerrit's major point was not consensus, but the "irrational exuberance" that so many observers have expressed in watching the KMT shove Taiwan into China's orbit.

    Foreign Snacks Michael Turton 2008

  • And once I saw tears run down Gerrit's face when he denied you were dead.

    Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Only once did Gerrit's eyes flick to Blanche, who was pale and fingering the iron crosses under her gown.

    Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Gerrit's blade beat aside Chandler's return stroke.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Denoriel caught at Gerrit's arm and drew him a little back from Harry.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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