Geesje Visser

F, #6373, b. circa 1654
Father*Jan Coenraad Visser1 b. c 1620, d. c 1700
Mother*Grietje Gerrits1 b. c 1630, d. 7 Mar 1692

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Last Edited24/09/2016
Birth*Geesje Visser was born circa 1654.1
 
Marriage*She married Hendrik Gijsbertse Verschuur on 12 July 1671 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.2
 
Marriage*She married Dirk Gijsbertse Verweij, son of Gijsbert Dircksz Verweij and Trijntje Theunisz Gansevanger, on 26 December 1694 (Cape Town).3
 

Family 1

Hendrik Gijsbertse Verschuur b. c 1640, d. b 26 Dec 1694
Children

Family 2

Dirk Gijsbertse Verweij b. c 1670
Children
Duplicate?*It is possible that Geesje Visser and Geesje Hendricks are the same individual. It is possible these two individuals are the same person. 
(Passenger) ShipVoyage On 27 September 1661 the Wapen van Amsterdam departed Vlie enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 30 January 1662. On board were Geesie Visser, Grietie Gerrits, Maria Jansz Visser and Gerrit Jans Visser. Their passage had been paid for by the Company. Mansell Upham notes that it was rare for families of free-burghers to immigrate to the Cape during the early years of the colony.4,5,6 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.Geesje Visser was also known as Geesje NN.
An unknown date , the name of Geesje was written in the record as Geesje Jans.
An unknown date , the name of Geesje was written in the record as Geesie Visser.
23 October 1678, the name of Geesje was written in the record as Geesie Jans.
20 August 1679, the name of Geesje was written in the record as Geesie Janssen.
Baptisms - WitnessGeesie Jans and Gerrit Janssen Visser, Jannetien Thielemans and Jan Coenraeds Visser witnessed the baptism of Hendrik Visser on 23 October 1678 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.7
She witnessed the baptism of Anna Margaretha Putter on 1 December 1680 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.8,9,10
She witnessed the baptism of Elizabeth Potgieter on 28 June 1682 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.11
She and Gerrit Jansz Visser and Jannetie Tilemans witnessed the baptism of Johannes Visser on 20 September 1682 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.12
She and Zacharia Visser and Dietrich Putter witnessed the baptism of Anna Catharina Putter on 11 July 1683 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.13
She and Gerrit Jans Visser, Johanna Tielemans and Hendrik Gijsbertse Verschuur witnessed the baptism of Gesina Visser on 1 September 1686 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.14
She witnessed the baptism of Annetie Olivier on 18 March 1691 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.15
She witnessed the baptism of Mathijs Wighman on 25 May 1692 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.16
She and Dirk Gijsbertse Verweij witnessed the baptism of Dirk Olivier on 5 September 1694 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.17
She and Dirk Gijsbertse Verweij witnessed the baptism of Geesje Wigman on 7 August 1695 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.18
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)Jan Coenraad Visser and Grietje Gerrits appeared on the muster roll of 1664 (Cape Town). The three children enumerated with them may have been Geesje Visser, Gerrit Jansz Visser and Coenraad Janse Visser.19
Jan Coenraad Visser and Grietje Gerrits appeared on the muster roll of 1665 (Cape Town). The four children enumerated with them may have been Geesje Visser, Gerrit Jansz Visser, Coenraad Janse Visser and Zacharia Jansz Visser.20
Jan Coenraad Visser and Grietje Gerrits appeared on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) of 1670 (Cape Town) as one man along with a wife and five children. Presumably these were Geesje Visser, Gerrit Jansz Visser, Coenraad Janse Visser, Zacharia Jansz Visser and Johannes Visser.21
In 1670 Jan Coenraad Visser and Grietje Gerrits appeared on the muster roll (Cape Town). They were enumerated with five children, presumably these included Gerrit Jansz Visser, Coenraad Janse Visser, Zacharia Jansz Visser and Johannes Visser.22
In 1671 Jan Coenraad Visser and Grietje Gerrits appeared on the muster roll (Cape Town). The five children enumerated with them may have been Gerrit Jansz Visser, Coenraad Janse Visser, Zacharia Jansz Visser and Johannes Visser.23
In 1672 Geesje Visser and Hendrik Gijsbertse Verschuur were enumerated in the muster roll (Cape Town).24

Citations

  1. [S377] Webpage South Africa's Stamouers (http://www.stamouers.com/).
  2. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: den 12 Juli
    Henrick Gysbertz van Amesvoort en Geesje Jans
    van den Hardenbergh    , transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar).
  3. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): ao 1694
    Den 26 Decemb'
    sijn in den huwelijken staet bevestigt Dirk Gijsbertse Verweij jongman geboortig
    van Polanen met Geesje Vissers wed van Hendrik Gijsbertse Verschuur, May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  4. [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', 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), January 2012. "30 January 1662:     Wapen van Amsterdam brings: wife of Johannes (Jan Grof) Coenraed(sz): / Coenraet[sz:] Visser (from Ommen) Geertjen [? Alida (Aeltje)] Gerrits: with 3 children; Maria Jans: Visser [already wife to Willem Willemsz: de Lierman (from Deventer [Overijssel]); Gerrit Jansz: Visser; Gesina (Geesje) Jans: Visser. Also:
    The Company financed a passage for his wife and three children to the Cape (30 January 1662) on board the Wapen van Amsterdam, viz: "At your request we have granted a passage to one or two wives [those of Grof & Willem de Lierman?] whose husbands are at the Cape, subject to the usual condition to remain their fifteen years. The wife of Jan Coenraetsz [Visser] we have given f 25 for her outfit, which you may recover there" [as transcribed from 'Leibbrandt' Letters Received, vol. II, p. 183, (Letter from Amsterdam, 19 September 1661)]."
  5. [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), [30 January 1662] A N.W. breeze blowing during the afternoon, by means of which the above vessel safely arrived on the roadstead. The Fiscal landed with the letters, but they contained nothing that was necessary to be despatched in the Nachtegael. About the same time the skipper Jan van Campen and the junior merchant Casper van Dalen also landed and reported their vessel to be the Wapen van Amsterdam, which had left the Vlie on the 27th September, 1661, in company of the Amersfoort, with 350 men, of whom only three had died and 2 been drowned The rest were in good health. She had called nowhere and had lost sight of the Amersfoort the same day that she left. The Malacca was then also ready to leave the Vlie.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662.
  6. [S657] Mansell Upham 'Hell and Paradise... Hope on Constantia / De Hel en Het Paradijs... De Hoop op Constantia: Jan Grof (died ante 1700) and his extended family at the Cape of Good Hope', 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), February 2012. "p.14. Emigration of a free-burgher’s family to the Cape was exceptional during the early years of the colony."
  7. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: den selfden dito (23 October) Hendrick, Gerrit Janssen Visser en Jannetien Thielemans
    Jan Coenraeds Visser en Geesie Jans    , transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
  8. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1680
    [1] December (date missing in photocopy, inside binding)
    Margarita
    Diederick Boder en Zacharia Janssen syn huisvrouw
    Geesie Janssen, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  9. [S190] C.C. de Villiers & C. Pama, Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families II L-R (Cape Town / Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1966), Page 743. Hereinafter cited as Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families II L-R.
  10. [S226] GISA, South African Genealogies 6 N, GISA SA Genealogies (Stellenbosch, South Africa: Genealogical Institute of South Africa, 2000). Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 6 N.
  11. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1682
    den 28 dito Elysabet
    Harmen Jansen van Noorthoren en Bely Fredricks
    Geesie Jans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  12. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 20' dito (September) Johannes
    Gerrit Jansz Visser en Jannetie Tilemans
    Geesie Jans     , 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  13. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): eodem dito (11 Julij) Anna Catharina
    Diederyck Potter en Zacharia Visser
    Geesie Visser    , 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  14. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 1 September Geesie
    Gerrit Jans Visser en Johanna Tielemans
    Hendrick Gysbert en Geesie Jans    , 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  15. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den selfde Dito (18 Martius) een kint gedoopt daer van vader is Hendrik Cornelisz
    de moeder Beatrix Gijsbert als geuijge stont Geesie Jans ende genaemt Annetie, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  16. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1692
    (date below: 25th was a Sunday - this one looks like 2J, perhaps 21?)
    Den 2[looks like a cursive J] Dito (Maij) een kint gedoopt waer van vader is Mathijs Wighman, de moeder Jannetie Verschuyr, de getuijge Gesie Visscher
    genaemt Mathijs, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  17. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1694
    dito (5 September) een kind van Okker Cornelisse en Aeltje Gijsbertse, genaemt Dirk, getu[ ] Dirk Gijsbertze, en Geesje Verschuur, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  18. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1695. 7 Augusti een kind van Mathijs Wigman en Jannetje Verschuur, gent: Geesje, getuijgenn Dirk Gijsbertze Verweij en Geesje Vissers, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  19. [S775] Monsterrol van de vrije luijden 1664 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/) "Page 22...
    Jan Coenraet Visser, van Ommen met Geertje Gerrits van Hardenburg. 3 kinderen". (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
  20. [S776] Monsterrol van de vrije luijden 1665 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/) "page 26...
    Jan Coenraet Visscher van Ommen en Geertje Gerrits van Hardenberg 4 kind:r". (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
  21. [S657] Mansell Upham 'UL04 Hell and Paradise', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Cit.: 1670: No. 34:      Jan Visser: 1 man 1 wife 5 children. His immediate neighbours were Willem de Lierman, Jan Pietersz: Louw and Willem Schalksz: van der Merwe."
  22. [S786] Monsterrol van de vrije luijden 1670 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/) "page 39...Jan Coenraet Visser en Margarita Gerrits 5 kinderen". (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
  23. [S778] Monsterrol van de vrije luijden 1671 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/) "page 40 ...
    Jan Coenraed Visser van Ommen en Grietje Gerrits, 5 kinderen". (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
  24. [S779] Monsterrol van de vrije luijden 1672 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/) "page 46...
    Hendrick Gijsbertsen en Geesien Jansz". (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
  25. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1671
    dito (15 9vrme)
    een soontje van Gijsbert Hendricksz en Geesje sijn huysvr' wiert genaamt Gysbert tot getuyge stonden Grietje Gerrids, en Gerrid Cloete[N], 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  26. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1673
    Den 29 dito (October)
    Een Dochtertje van Hendrick Gysbertsz en Geessie Jans: wiert genaamt Jannetje
    tot getuygen stonden Gerrit Jansz en Elsje Willems, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  27. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1676
    De 5 Januarij een soontie van Henric Gysbertsz en syn huijsvrouw Geesie Jans wierdt genaam Willem onder the getuyegenis van Catharina Kients, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  28. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Ao. 1677
    Den 25 April Marretie
    Hendrick Gijsbertsz en Geesie Jans
    Jan Koenraets Visscher en Gerrit Jansz en Beatrice Gijsbertsz, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  29. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao' 1679
    den 20 dito (Augusti) Aeltie
    Hendrick Gysberts en Geesie Janssen
    Jantie Dielemans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  30. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1681
    den 26 Octobr. Willem
    Hendrick Gysberts ende Geesie Jans
    Jannetie Tielemans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  31. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Ao:' 1684
    den 24 dito (September) Hilletie
    Hendrick Gijsberts en Geesie Jans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  32. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Ao' 1686
    eodem dito (1 September) Gerrit
    Hendrick Gysberts en Geesie Jans
    Gerrit Jans Visser en Johanna Tielemans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  33. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): [Ao. 1688]
    eodem dito (13 Junii) is een kind gedoopt en genaamd Anna waar
    van vader is Hendrik Gijsbersz, de moeder Geesie
    Jans Beijde zelfs present, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  34. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1690
    Den 19 Martius een kindt gedoopt waervan vader is Hendrik Gijsbertz de moeder Geesie Janz genaemt Annatje, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  35. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town): 9 Juny 1697. gedoopt het kint van Gijsbert Verwij en Geesje Vissers, staende [.der...er] beyde als getuyge gent: - Trijntie, (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).
  36. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town), 1695-1712, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/
 

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