Family
On 14 September 1847 in Tulbagh, he married Mathilde Johanna Sanetta Vos (*7 October 1817 Caledon - †12 June 1906 Tulbagh). She was the sister of the missionary Ariel Vos and daughter of the well-known Rev. M. C. Vos. Alheit's only son, Rev. W. A. Alheit of Ceres, drowned at Jongensklip near Kleinmond. Four of the drowned man's sons became ministers of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk and the fifth, a teacher of mathematics. One of C. W. Alheit's daughters married the Rhenish missionary, Johann Gerdener. While stationed at Saron, a mission station about 18km northwest of Tulbagh, C. W. Alheit was killed in a horse and cart accident at the farm Steinthal, about 5km east of Tulbagh.
"Alheit" is derived from "Adelheid", a German word for "nobility".
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