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

Claes Oliviersz:¹

M, #17455, b. circa 1640

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05/09/2015

BirthOrigin*

Claes was from Amsterdam and was perhaps born there circa 1640. Date is estimated.¹

Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)

On 1 April 1662 Claes Oliviersz: was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Amsterdam, arquebusier.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.304. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.