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

Albert Albertsz:¹

M, #17378, b. circa 1640, d. 1660

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Last Edited

10/09/2015

BirthOrigin*

Albert was from Blocksiel and was perhaps born there circa 1640. Date is estimated.¹

Death*

He died in 1660, he was recorded among the deceased in 1660. He had been employed by the Amsterdam Chamber.²

(Passenger) ShipVoyage

On 9 September 1659 the Nieuw Enckhuisjen departed Vlie enroute to (Cape Town) where it docked on 13 January 1660. Among those on board was Albert Albertsz.³

Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)

In 1660 Albert Albertsz: was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded among the sick and invalids, as from Blocksiel, sailor.¹

Citations

[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.300. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.310. Albert Albertsz:, of Blocksiel, sailor, arrived in the Nieuw Enckhuysen in 1660.
[S406] H.B. Thom, editor, Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662 translated by J. Smuts from the original Dutch, (Cape Town, Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1954), Appendices xiii. Jan. 13. The ship Enckhuysen, from the Vlie the 9th September last, with 283 men, Skipper Hendrik Siewertz; 10 dead, 10 sick.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662.