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Jan Roelofs

M, #6973, b. circa 1660

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NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1665-1695

NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1665-1695

Last Edited

17/10/2016

Birth*

Jan Roelofs was born circa 1660 in Copenhagen.¹

Marriage*

He married Maria Willemse on 22 September 1686 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.²

Vrijbriewen and Burgher Status

Jan Roelofs became a burgher on 22 September 1686, in Dutch vryburgher or vrijburgher, initially a status in which a soldier or other employee of the VOC was released from their contractual obligations to the VOC and permitted to farm, become a tradesman, or work for others. Subsequently some individuals, including the Huguenot refugees, were brought to the Cape specifically to farm and were burghers from the time of their arrival de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Citations

[S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: ao' 1686
den 22. dito Jan Roelofs van Coppenhagen, vryborger en jonghman met Maria Cornelis van utrecht, weduw van [Ku]rt Cornelis, 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).
[S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): [22 September 1686] dito Jan Roelofs van Coppenhagen, vryborger en jonghman met Maria Cornelis van utrecht, weduw van Evert Cornelis, May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/