Le 8 ditau [Decembre] Lannee 1697; Geertru fille d'un beaufils de la Veuve; de haandris Kelbeers; Le temoins et Piter Van derbil, Et la Marrainne cela gran Mere del'anfant.
My thanks to Richard Ball for the following translation which I have annotated:
Geertru, daughter of a son-in-law [Wessel Pretorius] of the widow [Aletta ter Meulen] of haandris Kelbeers [Heinrich Elberts]; The Witnesses are piter vanderbil, and the godmother the grand mother [Aletta ter Meulen, the paternal grandmother - Geertruyd Meijntinghs - was already deceased] of the child.
