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

Harmen Rouwers¹

M, #14851, b. circa 1700

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Last Edited

02/01/2014

BirthOrigin*

Harmen was from Bremen and may have been born there circa 1700.¹

Marriage*

He married Maria Dorothea Sultania, daughter of Rajah of Tambora Albubasi Sultan and Sitina Sara Marouff, on 15 October 1741 de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Citations

[S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946), p. 384. ROUWERS, HARMEN (S). - Bremen. Sa. 1734-37, quartermaster 1738-50, boatswain since 1751. ~ (1) 15.10.1741 Dorothea Sultania, wid. Christiaan Carel van den Bosch, d. of the Rajah of Tambora.... Hereinafter cited as Personalia.