Abel Sjoerdts1

M, #13854, b. circa 1630

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Last Edited11/07/2015
BirthOrigin*Abel was from Seruyssum and may have been born there circa 1630. His age is estimated.2 
BaptismAbel Sjoerdts was baptized on 26 October 1656 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.1 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.20 March 1656, the name of Abel was written in the record as Abel Syours.2
31 May 1657, the name of Abel was written in the record as Abel Sjours.3
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 20 March 1656 Abel Sjoerdts was enumerated in the muster roll, as a sailor.2
On 31 May 1657 Abel Sjoerdts was enumerated in the muster roll, as a sailor earning f 8 per month.3
On 15 February 1658 Abel Sjoerdts was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as Abel Syours, of Seruyssum, sailor.4
On 5 March 1659 Abel Sjoerdts was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as a sailor.5

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. "26 October 1656:
    baptism:      Abel een bejaert persoon
    "Weather as above. The minister [Brockborn] again preaches and baptizes a sailor named Abel Sjoars [Sjoerdts], whose parents were Mennonites and are now dead.?He had always adhered to the Reformed Church, et cetera"."
  2. [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.284-286. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  3. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, pp.287-289.
  4. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.291.
  5. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.295.
 

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