Elisabet van Opdorp1,2

F, #13767, b. circa 1635
Father*Bastiaen Adriaensz O 't Dorp3 b. c 1614
Mother*Sebastiaentgen van Gaesbeeck4 b. c 1600

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Last Edited13/01/2013
BirthOrigin*Elisabet van Opdorp was from Charloos and many have been born there circa 1635. This is Charlois, at the time a separate village on the south bank, but now a suburb of Rotterdam.1,5,6 
Marriage*She married Jacob Reijniers on 23 November 1653 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. They leave Cape (24 January 1654) on Vrede bound for Batavia.1 
(Passenger) ShipVoyage On 24 December 1651 the Drommedaris and the other ships of the fleet, Goede Hoope and Reijger departed Texel under the overall command of Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where they docked on 6 April 1652. Among those on board the Drommedaris were Elisabet van Opdorp.7,8,9 
Company JournalOn 8 November 1653 in the Company Journal, as translated: The same threatening destruction to everything. Jacob Reijniers: to marry Elisabet van Opdorp, niece and ward of Jan van Riebeeck, the first notice to be given in church to-morrow. The ceremony to be performed by the bookkeeper Frederick Verburgh, as by Resolution specially taken.10
On 9 November 1653 in the Company Journal, as translated: (Sunday). First publication of the banns (for Jacob Reijniers: and Elisabet van Opdorp.)10
On 16 November 1653 in the Company Journal, as translated: (Sunday). Cut the first cauliflower, as fine and delicate as at home. Second banns published (for Jacob Reijniers: and Elisabet van Opdorp.)11
On 23 November 1653 in the Company Journal, as translated: (Sunday). Fine, warm, sunshine. The young couple ( Jacob Reijniers: and Elisabet van Opdorp) solemnly married before the Council and the public in the Council Chamber. There being no Minister the ceremony was performed by the Secretary.12

Citations

  1. [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012. "23 November 1653:
    marriage:     junior merchant Jacob Reyniersz (from Amsterdam) & Elisabeth (Lijsbeth) van Opdorp (born in Charloos) Commander Jan van Riebeeck's cousin - engaged (8 November 1653)."
  2. [S719] E-mails from Paul Veenboer (Rotterdam) to Delia Robertson, January 2013 "The surname Opdorp or van Opdorp, from van op ‘t dorp comes from this village (Charlois) and has been researched bij Kees Jan Slijkerman."
  3. [S654] Mansell Upham 'UL01 What can't be cured, must be endured …', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "23 November 1653:
    marriage:     junior merchant Jacob Reyniersz (from Amsterdam) & Elisabeth (Lijsbeth) van Opdorp (born in Charloos) Commander Jan van Riebeeck's cousin - engaged (8 November 1653)
    13 September 1654:
    marriage:     junior merchant & widower Pieter Duyne & Sebastiana (Bastiaentje) van Opdorp geboortich van Cuylenborch [sister of Lijsbeth van Opdorp] - engaged (10 September 1654."
  4. [S364] Editor-in-chief W.J. de Kock Dictionary of South African Biography Vol II. (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1972), p.798. Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of SA Biography II.
  5. [S719] E-mails from Paul Veenboer to Delia Robertson, January 2013 "Browsing through the place names list I noticed an Elisabet van Opdorp from Charloos. Charloos is not Charlerois in Belgium as you suppose, though there is a connection. Charlois pronounced als Charloos is now a suburb of Rotterdam but was a separate village on the south bank. The surname Opdorp or van Opdorp, from van op ‘t dorp comes from this village and has been researched bij Kees Jan Slijkerman."
  6. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
  7. [S654] Mansell Upham 'UL01 What can't be cured, must be endured …', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713),.
  8. [S673] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, December 1651 - December 1653[5], Van Riebeeck's Journal, &c. Part I, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), p.15. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5].
  9. [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Number     0738.2
    Name of ship     DROMEDARIS
    Master     Koning, David
    Tonnage     560
    Type of ship     jacht
    Built     
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     24-12-1651
    Place of departure     Texel
    Arrival at Cape     06-04-1652
    Departure from Cape     25-05-1652
    Date of arrival at destination     22-07-1652
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     With van Riebeek on board. The ship was laid up in 1661."
  10. [S673] Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5], p.89.
  11. [S673] Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5], p. 90.
  12. [S673] Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5], p.92.
 

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