SMIT

Christened 4 August 1709, Cape Town⁹
Died January 1779¹⁰
Originally thought to be the youngest child.
Born between 1710 - 1711, Cape of Good Hope (date assumed) died January 1779 will dated 4 January 1779 and filed 28 January 1779
Notes: In their joint will of 1779, the couple is described as: den búrger Johannes Smith Jacobusz: en desselfs huisvrouw Catharina Magdalena Mares.
Their property is left to the children of their brothers and sisters (met versoek van 't úijtterste ben[e]ficirie der neefkens) with a specific bequest of 200 Rixdollars to Floris Johannes Slabbert, soontje van Johannes Slabert Gideonsz:
De Villiers / Pama gives the marriage date as 29.11.1743. If this date is correct, then the parties were presumably born before circa 1723.
This means that Johannes Smit cannot be the youngest child of Jacobus Smit and E lizabeth Slabbert as given in DeV/P and, given the fact that Elisabeth Slabbert , in her will of 1756, lists Jan Smit at the head of her children, his most likely date of birth would appear to be around 1710 or 1711.
Johannes Smit and Catharina Mares were witnesses to the baptism of their niece Aletta Catharina Smit, daughter of his brother, Alewijn Smit and Engela Helena van Niekerk on 30th July 1769 at Swartland.

Born Cape Town
This could be the same person as P51944

Christened 23 March 1712, Cape Town
Died AFT June 1773¹²

Christened 21 August 1715, Cape of Good Hope¹³

Christened 7 November 1714, Cape Town

Christened 21 December 1727¹⁴

Christened 26 August 1716, Cape Town

Alias Catharina SMIT (14 August 1745)
Christened 16 August 1724, Cape Town
Ancestral File record num: 19C6-XL5

Christened 10 August 1718, Cape Town

Christened 24 September 1732

Christened 19 June 1720, Cape Town

Christened 12 March 1732¹⁵
KAB NCD 68 NOTARIAL PROTOCOL. NOTARY- JD KARNSPEK. GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY. HILLETJIE LAUBSCHER WIDOW OF CHRISTOFFEL SMIT TO NICOLAAS HENDRIK Smit. 1796
KAB NCD 85 NOTARIAL PROTOCOL. NOTARY JD KARNSPEK. CAUSA MORTIS DONATION. HILLETJE LAUBSCHER- WIDOW OF CHRISTOFFEL SMIT DONATING THE SLAVE CAATJE OF THE CAPE TO HER DAUGHTER ANNA CATHARINA SMIT- WIDOW OF ISAAC HENDRIK BOUWERMEESTER OR BAUERMEESTER. 1797

Christened 1 July 1722, Cape Town
Died 25 November 1776¹⁶

Christened 14 July 1726, Stellenbosch, Cape¹⁷

Christened 21 June 1724, Cape Town

Christened 3 April 1750

Christened 3 July 1726, Cape Town
KAB MOOC 34 SMIT- HUIJBREGT. WIFE OF FREDERIK BRAND. WILL. 1784 FILED 1794.

Christened 7 May 1719, Stellenbosch, Cape¹⁸
Ancestral File record num: 19C7-G1C

Born ABT 1709
Christened 9 March 1738¹⁹

Christened 6 April 1729, Cape Town

Christened 31 March 1734²⁰

Christened 26 September 1731, Cape Town

Born ABT 1735
Christened 5 October 1740²²

Christened 23 June 1734, Cape Town
Died 25 January 1787, Stellenbosch, Cape²³
Occupation: Boer/Farmer
There is no mention in the marriage register entry as to whether he or his wife had been previously married or not, nor is there any patronymic to indicate who his father was.
On the death notice of his son, Jacobus Hendrik, he is entered as 'Alewyn Smit, Jacobus Zoon'; in the joint will made by him and his wife in 1774 he is named as Alewijn Smit Jacobz. and in the estate distribution file produced by the Weeskamer on the death of his widow, Engela Helena van Niekerk, made in July 1820, her late husband is stated to be Alewyn Smith Jacobuszoon.
For this and other reasons (see Alewyn Smit de oude <http://www.ballfamilyrecord s.co.uk/smit/I003.html>) I have not followed De Villiers/Pama for the parentage of this man but take him to be b2c12, page 893.
His baptism was witnessed by Alewijn Smit and Helena Gous.
His will was dated 9 April 1774 and filed 12 February 1788.

Christened 15 January 1738
Died ABT 1820²⁴