Maria van Riebeeck1
F, #13857, b. 17 June 1657
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls) | On 31 May 1657 Maria de la Queillerie enumerated in the muster roll, as the wife of the commander, along with their three children, who would have included their two oldest sons Lambertus van Riebeeck and Abraham van Riebeeck. Their daughter, Maria van Riebeeck, was born 17 days after this muster, and given that 3 children were mentioned, I wonder whether it was finalised after her birth. They were recorded with his personal female slaves from Batavia.3 On 31 May 1657 Maria de la Queillerie enumerated in the muster roll, as the wife of the commander, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, along with their three children, who would have included their two oldest sons Lambertus van Riebeeck and Abraham van Riebeeck. Their daughter, Maria van Riebeeck, was born 17 days after this muster, and given that 3 children were mentioned, I wonder whether it was finalised after her birth. They were recorded with his personal female slaves from Batavia.3 On 15 February 1658 Maria de la Queillerie was enumerated in the muster roll, among the women and children as the wife of the commander, along with their three children, Lambertus van Riebeeck, Abraham van Riebeeck and Maria van Riebeeck. They were recorded with three personal slaves, most likely Meijndert van Antongil, Eva van Madagascar and Lysbeth van Bengale.4 On 15 February 1658 Maria de la Queillerie was enumerated in the muster roll, among the women and children as the wife of the commander, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, along with their three children, Lambertus van Riebeeck, Abraham van Riebeeck and Maria van Riebeeck. They were recorded with three personal slaves, most likely Meijndert van Antongil, Eva van Madagascar and Lysbeth van Bengale.4 |
Citations
- [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. "17 June 1657: birth Maria
Daughter of Jan van Riebeeck. Baptism (1658) missing. Accompagnies parents to Batavia (1662)."
- [S405] H.B. Thom, editor, Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol II 1656-1658 translated by J. Smuts from the original Dutch, (Cape Town, Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1954), [1657] June 17th (Sunday). Dirty, rainy and changing weather.
Riebeeck's wife confined of a daughter.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol II 1656-1658.
- [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.