Margaretha Gerrits

Born: Abt 1630, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Holland
Marriage (1): Jan Coenraadsz Visser before 1649
Died: Mar 1692, , Cape Colony, South Africa aged about 62

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Spouses/Children:

1. Jan Coenraadsz Visser

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5716.html

And

http://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I2058.php

bullet Death Notes:

Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5716.html

And

Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5296.html
She was axed to death by her slave Claes van Malabar, whom she had beaten.

And

http://www.geni.com/people/Jan-Coenraadsz-Visser/388130228050004112?through=376576187650007418
She was murdered on a Friday night in March 1692 by a slave Klaas van Mallebar.

And

http://www.montxsuz.ca/familie/genealogy/286.html

bullet Sources of information or noted events in her life were:

• Web Based Info. Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5716.html

And

http://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I2058.php

And

http://tng.page.co.za/getperson.php?personID=I919&tree=page

• General Comment. Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5296.html

Margaretha Gerrits
F, #5296, b. circa 1630, d. March 1692
NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695 NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Birth* Margaretha Gerrits was born circa 1630 in Hardenberg, Nederland.1

Marriage* She married Jan Coenraad Visser before 1649.2,3

Death* She died in March 1692 de Caep de Goede Hoop She was axed to death by her slave, Claes van Malabar, whom she had beaten.4

NameRecord An unknown date , the name of Margaretha Gerrits was written in the record as Grietie Gerrits.
NameRecord An unknown date , the name of Margaretha Gerrits was written in the record as Grietie Pietersz.
NameRecord An unknown date , the name of Margaretha Gerrits was written in the record as Grietje Groff.
(Passenger) ShipVoyage On 27 September 1661 the Wapen van Amsterdam departed Vlie enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 30 January 1662. On board were Grietie Gerrits, Maria Jansz Visser, Gerrit Jans Visser and Geesie Visser.5,6
(Witness) Baptism She and Jan Coenraad Visser witnessed the baptism of Zacharia Jansz Visser on 23 August 1665 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.7,8
(Witness) Baptism She and Jochem Marquart witnessed the baptism of Willem Wilhelmse on 15 November 1671 (Cape Town).9
(Witness) Baptism She and Gerritt Cloete witnessed the baptism of Gysbert Hendricksz on 15 November 1671 (Cape Town).10
(Witness) Baptism She and Jannetie Tielmans, Gerrit Jansz and Jan Coenraets Visscher witnessed the baptism of Thieleman Visser on 21 February 1677 (Cape Town).11
Family Jan Coenraad Visser b. c 1620
Children ?Maria Jansz Visser+12 b. c 1649, d. 7 Jun 1718
?Geesje Visser+12 b. c 1654
?Gerrit Jansz Visser+ b. c 1657
?Coenraad Janse Visser+12 b. 8 Apr 1663
?Zacharia Jansz Visser+ b. 23 Aug 1665, d. b 21 Nov 1721
?Johannes Visser+ b. b 16 Jan 1667

Citations
1.[S331] Webpage Ball Family Records (www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk) "http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/olivier/I112.htmll, last accessed on 27 Oct 2010; date estimated by compiler."
2.[S331] Webpage Ball Family Records (www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk) "http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/olivier/I112.htmll, last accessed on 27 Oct 2010; date estimated by compiler based on the presumed date of birth of the apparent first child."
3.[S191] C.C. de Villiers & C. Pama, Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families III S-Z (Cape Town / Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1966), Page 1061-1062. Hereinafter cited as Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families III S-K.
4.[S205] Mansell G. Upham, "Keeping the gate of Hell . . . "subliminal racism" & early Cape carnal conversations between black men & white women", Capensis 1/2001 [Upham ... Keeping] 1/2001 (April 2001): Page 25
". . . who beat her slave Claes van Malabar, was axed to death by him in March 1692.". Hereinafter cited as "Keeping."
5.[S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', January 2012, 30 January 1662: Wapen van Amsterdam brings:
wife of Johannes (Jan Grof) Coenraed(sz): / Coenraet[sz:] Visser (from Ommen) Geertjen [? Alida (Aeltje)] Gerrits: with 3 children
Maria Jans: Visser [already wife to Willem Willemsz: de
Lierman (from Deventer [Overijssel])
Gerrit Jansz: Visser
Gesina (Geesje) Jans: Visser."
6.[S406] H.B. Thom, editor, Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662 translated by J. Smuts from the original Dutch, (Cape Town, Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1954), [30 January 1662] A N.W. breeze blowing during the afternoon, by means of which the above vessel safely arrived on the roadstead. The Fiscal landed with the letters, but they contained nothing that was necessary to be despatched in the Nachtegael. About the same time the skipper Jan van Campen and the junior merchant Casper van Dalen also landed and reported their vessel to be the Wapen van Amsterdam, which had left the Vlie on the 27th September, 1661, in company of the Amersfoort, with 350 men, of whom only three had died and 2 been drowned The rest were in good health. She had called nowhere and had lost sight of the Amersfoort the same day that she left. The Malacca was then also ready to leave the Vlie.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662.
7.[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Noch een kind van Joan Coenraadsz Visscher by Grietje Gerrits, genaamt Sacharias, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
8.[S205] Mansell G. Upham, "Keeping", Page 25
"Zacharia Jans Visser was born at the Cape and baptised on 23 August 1665. Since commander Zacharias Wagenaer had been her godfather, she was commonly referred to as Zacharias Wagenaer. Possibly, this is earliest documented case of a woman at the Cape using a man's name. "
9.[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1671
den 15 9veme
Een soontje van Willem Willemsz en Marie syn huysvr' wiert genaamt Willem tot getuyge stonden Grietje Gerridz en Jochem Marquaert, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
10.[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1671
dito (15 9vrme)
een soontje van Gijsbert Hendricksz en Geesje sijn huysvr' wiert genaamt Gysbert tot getuyge stonden Grietje Gerrids, en Gerrid Cloete[N], 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
11.[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den 21 dito (Febr) Tielman Gerrit Jansz en Jannetie Tielmans Jan Coenraets Visscher en Grietie Gerrits syn huijsvr', 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
12.[S377] Webpage South Africa's Stamouers (http://www.stamouers.com/).

• Marital Status. According to "Suid-Afrikaanse Geslagsregisters" 15 pages 12-13 Margaretha (Geertjen) Gerrits married Jan Coenraad Visser c.1662. She was his sister-in-law as he was first married to her sister Alida (Greetjen) Gerrits from Hardenberg in c.1648 in the Netherlands.

As far as SAG 15 (Suid Afrikaanse Geslagsregisters 15) notes, his 1st wife Alida Gerrits arrived in Cape Town in 1662 with 4 children:

•b1 Maria *Ommen, Netherland c.1649;
•b2 Gerrit Jansz *Ommen, Netherland c. 1650:
•b3 Gesina * Ommen, Netherland c. 1655 ;
•b4 Coenraad *Ommen, Netherland 1660, baptised in South Africa 16,1.1667.
What happened to Alida Gerrits is uncertain for in the same year that she arrived in the Cape with her children, her husband, Jan Coenraad Visser *1633, married her sister, Margaretha Gerrits.

The only children mentioned for Margaretha as 2nd wife of Jan Coenraad Visser *c.1633 is mentioned on page 50 of SAG:

•b5 Zacharias (Zacharararayda) baptised 28.8.1665
•b6 Johannes baptised Cape Town 16.1.1667
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There is no documentary evidence that a person by the name of Alida Geeritsz (who would have called herself Aeltje) existed.

Margaretha, or Geertjen, would have had to be married to Jan Visser at the Cape, since he arrived here on 28th April 1658. No such marriage can be found.

Richard Ball thinks there were only one person: http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/olivier/I112.htmll

However, Mansell Upham argues that Jan Visser might have had two wives, Aeltje Gerritsz and Geertjen Gerritsz or Pietersz in Upham, Mansell, Hel En Paradijs - De Hoop Op Constantia on Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ui45.html

The above information for Coenraad is wrong:

Coenraad, b4 was born at the Cape: 'Coenraad Jansz' Visser gebooren aan Cabo de Goede Hoop, oud vyftig jaaren ...(from his will dated 15 November 1710)

And this is his date of baptism at the Cape: 'April Anno 1663 Den 8en do heeft Dome de Metre ... gedoopt dese vier navolgende kinderen: ... ende een van Jan Coenraets Visscher vrij lantbouwer, en is genaemt Coenraet, de getuigen sijn Jacob Cloeten, vrij lantbouwer ende sijn huysvrouw' op http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town...

The entry for 16 January 1667 refers to Johannes's baptism:

A: 1667

Januarij 16 een soontje van Jan Coenraets en Grietjen Gerritsen sijn huysvrouw, wierd genaempt Johannes, peters waren Bartholomeus Boorn, en Teuntjen Bartholomeusz on http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-ngk-1665-to-1695/38-cape-town-baptisms-1667 - JS

Margaretha married Jan Coenraadsz Visser, son of Coenraad Visscher and Unknown, before 1649. (Jan Coenraadsz Visser was born about 1620 in Ommen, Overijssel, Friesland, Netherlands and died about 1699 in , Cape Colony, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5295.html

And

http://www.geni.com/people/Jan-Coenraadsz-Visser/388130228050004112?through=376576187650007418#/tab/timeline
Says 1662 which is impossible.

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