Ernestus Back1
M, #13958, b. circa 1630
Last Edited | 02/07/2012 |
Birth* | Ernestus Back was born circa 1630.1 |
Occupation* | Ernestus Back was sick comforter and school master between 26 August 1663 and 28 January 1665 de Caep de Goede Hoop.2 |
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. "30 November 1663:
Regulation ratifying appointment of schoolmaster: [Ernestus Back]." - [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), "September 1663: arrival: [DR: 26 Aug 1663, apparently on the Alphen] Ernestus Back (from Amsterdam) & wife Aeltje Molanus ; succeeds Pieter van der Stael as sieketrooster & given challenging task of teaching the colony's Christian [baptized] children; a drunk, his failure to conform leads to dismissal & replacement [Pieter van Clinckenberg (from Middelburg)]; leaves Cape (January 1665) with family following continuous sighting of a comet seen as a bad omen.
30 November 1663:
Regulation ratifying appointment of schoolmaster: [Ernestus Back]."