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

Roelof Karsten Ossenberg¹

M, #18380, b. circa 1665

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Last Edited

03/04/2017

Birth*

Roelof Karsten Ossenberg was born circa 1665.¹

Marriage*

He married Hester Janz, daughter of Pieter Janz van Nimmegen and Cornelia Theunisz, before 1694 Mauritius.²

Family

Hester Janz b. b 25 Oct 1668

Child

Cornelia Ossenberg¹ b. b 16 May 1706

Crime and related

In 1994 Mauritius Hester Janz was accused of poisoning her husband Roelof Karsten Ossenberg. Apparently not much came of this matter because they were still together when they baptised a daughter in 1706 at the Cape.²

Citations

[S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town), (1695-1712), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/, http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town).
[S744] Mansell Upham 'God's Slave & Afrikaner 'Hearts of Darkness' - Abdullah alias Adolf Jonker (c. 1709-1779)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), May 2013. "Note:116."