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

PN van Stael¹

F, #13856, b. 22 May 1657

Father*

Pieter van der Stael¹ b. b 1615, d. bt Sep 1663 - Mar 1665

Mother*

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Last Edited

11/06/2015

Birth*

PN van Stael was born on 22 May 1657 in (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.^1,2

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.³
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.⁴

Company Journal

On 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.¹

Citations

[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.
[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. "22 May 1657: birth: NN
Unnamed 3rd child of Pieter van der Stael (from Rotterdam) & Geertruida van Riebeeck, a girl, born at about midnight. Baptism (1658) missing. Accompagnies parents to Batavia (1663)."
[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.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.293.