The Tait Line
family-confirmed
The richest and best-attested of the married-in lines, and it belongs to Attie and Izelle’s daughters.
Izelle’s mother, Johanna Petronella Tait (b. 1954), is the daughter of Pieter Johannes Tait (1928–2014) and Ammerentia Petronella Duvenage (1927–2013), who married on 29 December 1951 at Verkeerdevlei, Brandfort, in the Free State. Izelle herself confirmed that her grandmother was Ammerentia — so this line is not only record-matched and tree-attached but family-confirmed. The name Petronella carries straight down: grandmother Ammerentia Petronella → mother Johanna Petronella.
From Pieter Johannes the Tait surname climbs seven further generations to George Tait (1765–1851) and Joshua Tait, with the deepest rungs showing unmistakable Scottish-Borders names — Trumbull, Nesbit, Johnston, Barr. A genuine Scottish settler family that entered through the Eastern Cape (residence at Queenstown) and drifted into the Free State by the twentieth century.
Line up: Johanna Petronella Tait (1954) → Pieter Johannes Tait (1928–2014) → Isaac Willem Tait (1882–1939) → Cornelis Johannes Tait (1839–1908) → John Tait (1811–1898) → Isaac Tait (1783–1851) → George Tait (1765–1851) → Joshua Tait. Many Cape families marry in along the way: Swanepoel, Gouws, Stroh, Meyer, van der Nest, Maartens, Barnard, van Nimwegen, Crause, Botha, van Wyngaarden.
Caveat: the deep generations rest on the FamilySearch shared tree — well-structured and internally consistent, but community-sourced. The grandparental link (Pieter & Ammerentia) is family-confirmed.
People in this line
- George Tait family tree 1765–1851
- Janet Jean family tree b. 1765
- Janet Barr family tree b. 1780
- Isaac Tait family tree 1783–1851
- Adriana Johanna Barnard family tree b. 1808
- John Tait family tree 1811–1898
- Cornelis Johannes Tait family tree 1839–1908
- Martha Margaretha Smith family tree 1851–1941
- Isaac Willem Tait family tree 1882–1939
- Anna Maria Swanepoel family tree 1885–1971
- Ammerentia Petronella Duvenage family-confirmed 1927–2013
- Pieter Johannes Tait family-confirmed 1928–2014
- Johanna Petronella Tait family-confirmed [private]
- Jenate-Janet Johnston family tree
- Joshua Tait family tree