First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Erasmus Schmidt¹

M, #12967, b. circa 1695, d. 6 May 1787

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Last Edited

02/05/2010

Birth*

Erasmus Schmidt was born circa 1695 in Holstein, .¹

Marriage*

He married Kornelia van Emmenes, daughter of Albert Gerritse van Emmenes and Catarina van den Bosch, on 6 May 1731 de Caep de Goede Hoop.^2,1

Death*

He died on 6 May 1787 Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Family

Kornelia van Emmenes b. b 5 Dec 1706

Child

Anna Smit¹ b. b 24 Feb 1732

Vrijbriewen and Burgher Status

Erasmus Schmidt became a burgher in 1727, in Dutch vryburgher or vrijburgher, initially a status in which a soldier or other employee of the VOC was released from their contractual obligations to the VOC and permitted to farm, become a tradesman, or work for others. Subsequently some individuals, including the Huguenot refugees, were brought to the Cape specifically to farm and were burghers from the time of their arrival Drakenstein, de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Citations

[S191] C.C. de Villiers & C. Pama, Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families III S-Z (Cape Town / Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1966), p.896. Hereinafter cited as Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families III S-Z.
[S151] J.A. Heese & R.T.J. Lombard, South African Genealogies 2 D-G (Pretoria, South Africa: Human Science Research Council, 1989), p.193. Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 2 D-G.