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Anton Martens¹

M, #14868, b. 1687, d. 1725

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Last Edited

25/02/2019

Birth*

Anton Martens was born in 1687 in Celle, Hanover.¹

Marriage*

He married Hermina Herwig on 15 December 1720 de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Death*

He died in 1725 de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Family

Hermina Herwig b. c 1685

Child

Jasper Maartensz+² b. b 24 Jun 1714

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), MARTENS, ANTON (S).-Celle in Hanover. 1687, son of Jasper M. and Anna v. Deventer, who lived later at Antwerp. Arr. 1710 as so., loaned 1712 as shoemaker to Basilius Kretzschmar (q.v.), b. 1713, resident as shoemaker in Cape Town. ti (1) 6.8.1713 Sara Claasen Moller, d. of Johann Claus Moller of Hamburg (q.v.); (2) 15.12.1720 Hermina Herwig of Amsterdam, wid. Basilius Kretzschmar. 7 children.† 1725. (GMR 1710, 1711, 1713; CJ 1126: 104; V.C. 56; G.R. nr. 575; Test. CJ 1070: 65 (Test. O.C. 2: 131); Test. CJ I072: 14 (Test. O.C. 3: 111); CJ 1070: 73, according to which his estate at the time of his second marriage was valued at 16,000 gilders.). Hereinafter cited as Personalia.
[S736] VC 605 (NGK G1-8/2), NGK Baptism Registers 1713-1742 (Cape Town), 2012, transcribed by Corney Keller, (1713-1742), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Registers 1713-1742 (Cape Town).