Cornelis Claasz

M, #6906, b. circa 1630, d. circa 1688

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Last Edited28/08/2016
Birth*Cornelis Claasz was born circa 1630 in Utrecht, was from.1
 
ConcubineAlleged* On 25 March 1661 de Caep de Goede Hoop Isabella van Angola and Cornelis Claasz were alleged to have been in a relationship, when Kees de Boer was accused of fathering a child by Ysebelle. This was not proven and is unlikely.2,3 
Marriage*He married Catharina van Malabar on 15 March 1676 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.4
 
Death*He died circa 1688.5
 

Family

Catharina van Malabar b. c 1637
Children
(Witness) ArrivalJacob Cloete arrived at the Cape on 7 August 1657 shortly before he is granted a vrijbrief in which he is said to be a cadet from Cologne. He does not appear in the ofgraaf- nor monsterrollen for 1656 or 1657. The 1657 monsterol was taken on 31 May 1657, viz. den laesten Maij 1657 — clearly placing his arrival at the Cape between 31 May 1657 and 10 August 1657. In this period, two vessels arrived ex-Patria at the Cape, the Maria from Vlie on 13 July, and the Verenigde Provincien on 7 August. The records reveal that one person left the Maria at the Cape. This was Cornelis Claasz, viz. Cornelis Claassen van Utrecht voor Bosscheieter anno 1657 pr. 't Jacht De Maria voor de Camer Amsterdam aangelant en primo October desselven jaars vrij geworden. Harry Booyens' conclusion Cloete arrived on the Maria therefor cannot be correct. Twelve left the Verenigde Provincien, and one of them was Cloete whose vrijbrief was granted three days later. The next month, on 16 August, Jacob Cloete's son Gerritt Cloete arrives on the Hasselt, viz. Gerrit Cloeten voor Jongen ende Camer Amsterdam anno 1657 met 't Jacht Hasselt aangelant ... the boy was just 6 years old.6,7,8,9 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.An unknown date , the name of Cornelis was written in the record as Cornelis Claasen.
13 September 1667, the name of Cornelis was written in the record as Kees de Boer.10
27 October 1678, the name of Cornelis was written in the record as Cornelis Claessen.
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 15 February 1658 Hendrick Hendricksz Boom was enumerated in the muster roll, among the freemen, as owner. Enumerated with him were Herman Ernst de Gresnicht, Cornelis Claasz and Dirck Mayer described as 'in his service.11'
Vrijbriewen and Burgher StatusOn 1 October 1657, Cornelis Claasz was granted a vrijbrief or letter of freedom which released him from his contractual obligations to the VOC and accorded him the status of vrijburgher or free burgher. He was recorded as an arquebusier.12
Property TransactionsOn 30 August 1659 Jan Reijniersz, in deep financial stress due to heavy debt sells to Jan van Riebeeck, 16.666 morgen of land as stipulated in his Land Grant of 15 April 1657 on which there was now a derelict house, erwe, kraal, and damaged farm implements. The land and house was located at the voet of pas between False Bay and the Table Bay harbour, east of Windberg [Wynberg?] to the east the fresh water river Liesbeecw, to the west the hereweg [main road], to the south Hendrick Hendricksz Boom's developed land, and to the north the Company's wild and undeveloped land. He was paid f 525.3.6 in cash which went toward unpaid taxes and debt, except for f 125 in half compensation for two unnamed absconded slaves, and one unnamed deceased female slave, as well as f 100 for a female Angola slave, presumably Isabella van Angola, for whom he was still indebted to the Company in the sum of f 225 - this amount also included 2 sheep and some of the implements/tools. This slave was given to his wife to help him build up again. The transaction also included his cattle and sheep stolen by the Hottentotte. He had owned the property in partnership with Wouter Mostert, but in a transaction on the same date, the latter's half-share was been sold to Cornelis Claasz who, on the 16th of the following month sold it to Jan van Riebeeck.13

Citations

  1. [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.264. As above to:- Cornelis Claesz:, of Utrecht, arquebusier, d.d. 1st October, 1657.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  2. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.450. 25th March. Declaration of Claas Lambertsz:,of Alsmeer, cook, and Arent Gerritsz van der Elburgh, cooper, stationed here and made at the request of the burgher Jan Reyniersz:, that Cornelisz: Claasz:, of Utrecht, also a burgher, had confessed to them that the child of the female slave Ysabelle owned by J. Reyniersz:, was his child, &c.
  3. [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. "25 March 1661:     Cornelis Claessz: [‘Kees de Boer’] (from Utrecht) [Isabella van Angola] - Mansell Upham notes that the relationship between Kees de Boer & Isabella van Angola was alleged, but never proven, and unlikely."
  4. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: Den 15 Dito (Maart)
    Cornelis Claasz van Uytregt vrijborger en Catharina van Malbaar, 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).
  5. [S331] Webpage Ball Family Records (www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk).
  6. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.264. As above to:- Jacob Cloeten, of Cologne, cadet, d.d. 10th August, 1657.
  7. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 0871.1 from Vlie

    Number     0871.1
    Name of ship     MARIA
    Master     Bording, Klaas Fransz.
    Tonnage     120
    Type of ship     jacht
    Built     
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     10-04-1657
    Place of departure     Vlie
    Arrival at Cape     13-07-1657
    Departure from Cape     18-07-1658
    Date of arrival at destination     
    Place of arrival     
    Particulars     Remained for service at the Cape. From 10-09-1657 till 29-05-1658 to Angola. The ship departed from the Cape to Batavia with 35 men. It was laid up and sold at Batavia, 13-08-1669.
    Next homeward voyage     
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     38     0     1               
    Details of voyage 0873.8 from Wielingen to Batavia

    Number     0873.8
    Name of ship     VERENIGDE PROVINCIEN
    Master     Nesse, Andries v. after the Cape: Dalen, Pieter v.
    Tonnage     1100
    Type of ship     
    Built     1643
    Yard     Zeeland
    Chamber     Zeeland
    Date of departure     13-04-1657
    Place of departure     Wielingen
    Arrival at Cape     07-08-1657
    Departure from Cape     27-08-1657
    Date of arrival at destination     25-10-1657
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     The men who embarked at the Cape came from the HASSELT and the MARIA. The master, Andries van Nesse, was dismissed because of adultery with the wife of the onderkoopman. According to Van Riebeek, II, 153, the ship departed from the Wielingen with 263 men.
    Next homeward voyage     5465.8
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     276     7     12     50     7     200
    Soldiers                    32          124
    Passengers                    0          15
    Details of voyage 0870.1 from Vlie

    Number     0870.1
    Name of ship     HASSELT
    Master     Moker, Jakob Hendriksz.
    Tonnage     365
    Type of ship     pinas
    Built     1656
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     10-04-1657
    Place of departure     Vlie
    Arrival at Cape     16-08-1657
    Departure from Cape     
    Date of arrival at destination     
    Place of arrival     
    Particulars     Remained for service at the Cape, and probably sailed to Batavia later on. Sailing to Arakan in 1665/66 it was wrecked.
    Next homeward voyage     
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Seafarers     152     1     49               
    Soldiers               32. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
  8. [S836] Vrijboek 1681 for de Caep de Goede Hoop (Cape Town) (Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/). (The monsterrolle or muster rolls were in effect a population census. In my view they were likely based on ships' musters of the period.).
  9. [S495] Harry Booyens, "Jacob and Fijtje Cloeten “van Ut in ’t Land van Ceulen”", Familia (Jacob and Fijtje Cloeten) FAMILIA 46 (1) 2009 (2009): All this would have taken considerably more than three days to achieve, making the Maria of 13 July 1657 his likely ship of arrival.. Hereinafter cited as "Jacob and Fijtje Cloeten “van Ut in ’t Land van Ceulen”."
  10. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): ao' 1683
    eodem dito [den 4. Julij]
    Pieter Gerrits zoo, Jonghman, vryburgh en Aedriantie stiefdogter van Kees de boer, May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  11. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.294.
  12. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.264. As above to:- Cornelis Claesz:, of Utrecht, arquebusier, d.d. 1st October, 1657.
  13. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", Kronos - Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670) 15 (1988): 30.8.1659     T3      TI6     CTD I, p.140
    Jan Reijniersz van Amsterdam, vryburger, verklaar ten einde uit sy nood en groot ‘ireparable’ skuld gehelp en gered te word, verkoop hy aan kommandeur Jan van Riebeecq sy 16 en twee-derde morge grond, synde sy helfte te wees van sy gesamentlike besitting met Comelis Claesz van Uijtrecht, asook die helfte van die ‘qual[lijk] halft volmaeckte ende sonderwandt oft muijr gansch reddeloos vervallende huijs, erwe, crael ende tegenwoordigh gans wijnigh by synde verdorven onbequame landtbouw gereedtschapen die alfoor wijnigh maer veel minzes voorsz huijs gebruijckt cunnen worden sonder alvooren noodigh reparatie met groote costen te doen daer toe sich den vercoper en transporteur onvermoogen bent, ende mits 't roven vande beesten soodanigh in't underspit ende-schuldigh leght dat noodtsaken daer aen een stercke handt verrijst tot weder op reghtinge …’ Die land en huis is geleë aan die voet of pas tussen ‘Baaij falce’ en Tafelbaaihawe, oos van Windberg, aan die oostekant daarvan die ‘verserivier Liesbeecq’, aan die westekant die groot hereweg, aan die suidekant Hendrick Boom se bewerkte land en aan die noordekant die woeste en onbewerkte grond van die Kompanjie, volgens die grondbrief van 15 April 1657. Die word verkoop vir f 525.3.6 in kontant waarmee al sy belastings en skulde vrygekoop word, behalwe f 125 vir die helfte van twee weggeloopte slawe en een ‘gestorven slavin’ asook f 100 vir ‘n Angolese slavin in sy besit. Die slavin, op rekening van die Kompanjie gekoop, twee skape en party van die gereedskap, saam f 225, bly hy nog skuldig. Die slavin, ‘alleen ten vollen waerdigh’, word aan sy vrou gelaat om [hom] weer op die been te help. [Kantaantekening: Hy doen ook afstand van die beeste en skape wat die Hottentotte van hom geroof het. As hulle ooit teruggevind word, is hulle inbegrepe in die oordrag.] [Comelis Claesz het op die dag die eienaar van die ander helfte geword toe hy dit van Wouter Cornelisz Mostert gekoop het. Sien T5, p.147. Met T7, p.149 verkoop Cornelis Claesz op 16 September 1659 ook sy helfte aan Jan van Riebeeck.]
    1.9.1659     CTD I, p. 125 [Deels verlore]
    Jan Reijniersz van Amsterdam, vryburger, skuld die Kompanjie 225 carolus gulde Waarvan f 100 vir die koop van ‘n ‘Angoolse’ slavin is en f 125 vir die helfte van twee weggeloopte slawe en 'n afgesterfde slavin wat hy van die Kompanjie gekoop, en met die verkoop van sy huis, nog uitstaande was. Hy belowe om die bedrag sover moontlik in geld te betaal maar ook in sodanige goedere as wat die Kompanjie bereid sal wees om te neem. Die slavin word as pand beskou. [Geen name en ouderdomme van die slawe is vermeld.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  14. [S331] Webpage Ball Family Records (www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk) "http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/robberts/I022.html."
 

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