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

Peter Christian Behrens¹

M, #14869, b. 1696, d. 1729

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Last Edited

10/04/2013

Birth*

Peter Christian Behrens was born in 1696 in Glückstadt or Hamburg.¹

Marriage*

He married Hermina Herwig on 17 February 1726 de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Death*

He died in 1729 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), BEHRENS, PETER CHRISTIAN (S).-Glückstadt or Hamburg. * 1696, arr. 1720, b. 1723, a smith. - (1) Cornelia Everdina Kraak, d. of the free black Maria Evers; (2) 17.2.1726 Hermina Herwig of Amsterdam, wid. Anton Martens (q.v.). † 1729. (Rq. 1723: 51; CJ 1265: 1; Test. O.C. 3:119; Test. CJ 1073: 13 and 42; Test. CJ 1074: 15; Test. O.C. 2: 26.). Hereinafter cited as Personalia.