Geertruyd van Riebeeck1

F, #13795, b. before 3 February 1623
Father*Anthony Janszoon van Riebeeck1 b. 1589, d. 1639
Mother*Lijsbet Govertsdocter van Gaesbeeck1 b. 1599, d. 1629

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Last Edited27/12/2015
Birth*Geertruyd van Riebeeck was born before 3 February 1623 in Schiedam.1
 
BaptismGeertruyd van Riebeeck was baptized on 3 February 1623 Schiedam.1 
Marriage*She married Pieter van der Stael on 9 November 1649 Schiedam.2
 

Family

Pieter van der Stael b. b 1615, d. bt Sep 1663 - Mar 1665
Children
(Passenger) ShipVoyage On 4 October 1655 the Weesp departed Texel enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 5 March 1656. Among those on board were Geertruyd van Riebeeck.3,4 
Baptisms - WitnessGeertruyd van Riebeeck and Maria aux Brebis, Dom:e Antonius Scherius and Zacharias Wagenaer witnessed the baptism of Joanna van Riebeeck on 23 April 1662 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.5
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 31 May 1657 Geertruyd van Riebeeck was enumerated in the muster roll, as the wife of the sick-comforter, Pieter van der Stael, with their two children, one of whom would have been PN van Stael. They were recorded with his personal female slave from Batavia who had been purchased from the gardener, viz. Hendrik Boom. This would have been Maria van Bengale.6
On 15 February 1658 Geertruyd van Riebeeck was enumerated in the muster roll, as the wife of the sick-comforter, Pieter van der Stael, with their three children, one of whom would have been PN van Stael. They were recorded with his personal female slave from Batavia who had been purchased from the gardener, viz. Hendrik Boom. This would have been Maria van Bengale.7
Company JournalOn 22 May 1657 in the Company Journal, as translated: S.S.E. breeze. The Oyemar leaves. Riebeeck visits the corn-lands, of which a large portion had been sown. The wife (Geertruyd van Riebeeck), of the sick comforter, Pieter van der Stael, gives birth to a daughter, PN van Stael.8

Citations

  1. [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.
  2. [S201] Editor-in-chief C.J. Beyers Dictionary of South African Biography Vol V. (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1967), p.806. Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of SA Biography V.
  3. [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. "5 March 1656 : Weseph brings Geertruyd van Riebeeck (from Culemborg) & husband Pieter van der Stael) & 2 children."
  4. [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Number     0836.2
    Name of ship     WEESP
    Master     
    Tonnage     560
    Type of ship     jacht
    Built     
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     04-10-1655
    Place of departure     Texel
    Arrival at Cape     05-03-1656
    Departure from Cape     11-03-1656
    Date of arrival at destination     24-05-1656
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     Because of adverse winds for 4 weeks at Wight. On 28/29-09-1661 run aground and wrecked on the south shore of the Andaman Islands."
  5. [S787] Church matters (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk), Incoming Letters, 9 April 1652-14 May 1663, (NL-SAA, archiefinventaris 379, inventarisnummer 206, pp. 29-35), (eGSSA - van der Stael Letters, http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/classis-amsterdam/…), Den 23 [April 1662]:en d:o heeft dom:e Scheerius, een predikatie gedaen, ende sijn ten doope gepresenteert dese vijff navolgende kinderen, waer van dom:e Scherius gedoopt heeft, het dochterkenm van den e: h:r commandeur Jan van Riebeeck, is genaemt Joanna, de getuigen sijn d' e: h:r command:r Zacharias Wagenaer, ende sijn huisvrou Maria Wagenaers ende Geertruidt van Riebeeck, de huisvrou van Pieter van der Stael,... as transcribed by Corney Keller.
  6. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.290.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  7. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.293.
  8. [S646] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, JVR Journal II, 1656-1658, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), May 22nd. S.S.E. breeze. The Oyemar leaves. Riebeeck visits the corn-lands, of which a large portion had been sown. The wife of the sick comforter, Pieter van Staels, gives birth to a daughter.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal II 1656-1658.
  9. [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), "15 July 1660:
    baptism:      Anthonia."
 

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