Last Edited | 09/07/2012 |
(Fleet) ShipVoyage | On 24 December 1651 the Drommedaris and the other ships of the fleet, Goede Hoope departed Texel under the overall command of Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where they docked on 6 April 1652. Among those on board the Drommedaris were Maria de la Queillerie, Elisabet van Opdorp, Sebastiana van Opdorp, Willem Barentsz: Wilant, Hendrick Hendricksz Boom and Anna Joris.2,1,3 |
Citations
- [S673] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, December 1651 - December 1653[5], Van Riebeeck's Journal, &c. Part I, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), p.15. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5].
- [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.
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Name of ship DROMEDARIS
Master Koning, David
Tonnage 560
Type of ship jacht
Built
Yard Amsterdam
Chamber Amsterdam
Date of departure 24-12-1651
Place of departure Texel
Arrival at Cape 06-04-1652
Departure from Cape 25-05-1652
Date of arrival at destination 22-07-1652
Place of arrival Batavia
Particulars With van Riebeek on board. The ship was laid up in 1661."