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

Broer Witsma¹

M, #17301, b. 1 October 1655

Father*

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23/08/2015

Birth*

Broer Witsma was born on 1 October 1655 in de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Baptism

Broer Witsma was baptized on 25 October 1655 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.²

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.237. October 1st. Wife of the chief surgeon, Mathys Witsma, delivered of a son.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal 1651-1653[5].
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.244. The minister of the Arnhem lands and preaches, also baptizes a child of the chief surgeon, with the name of Broer, three weeks old.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.