Joachim Blank

M, #7932, b. circa 1640

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited07/09/2015
BirthOrigin*Joachim was from Lübeck and may have been born there circa 1640. His age is estimated.1,2 
Marriage*He married Joanna Boddys on 12 June 1661 de Caep de Goede Hoop.3,4
 

Family

Joanna Boddys b. c 1620
Children
Names in the record, in publications, etc.31 May 1657, the name of Joachim was written in the record as Jochum Blanck.5
The name of Joachim appeared as Jochim Blancq in the cited publication(s.)6
8 April 1663, the name of Joachim was written in the record as Joachim Blanck.
Baptisms - WitnessJoachim Blanck and Jannetje Boiddijs and Dom:e Balthasar de Metre witnessed the baptism of Christina Diemer on 8 April 1663 de Caep de Goede Hoop.7
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 20 March 1656 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, as an adelborst or midshipman.2
On 31 May 1657 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, as an adelborst or midshipman earning f 10 per month.5
On 15 February 1658 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as Jochem Blancq of Lubecq, adelborst.8
On 5 March 1659 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as a dispenser.9
In 1660 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as of Lubeecq, dispenser.6
On 1 March 1661 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Lubeecq, dispenser.10
On 1 April 1662 Joachim Blank was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Lubeck, dispenser.11
Slave TransactionsJoachim Blanck bought the slaves, Anna van Bengalen and Claes van Bengale after 21 February 1657 the Cape.12
Pieter van Ceylon was sold by Jacob Does to Joachim Blank on 28 March 1662. Böeseken says he was given into the custody of Denis van Meteren on the Marsseveen who was to hand him over to his new owner on their arrival at the Cape. Hattingh's transcription is somewhat different: De Meteren purchased Pieter from Does in Batavia, on condition he would sell Pieter for the same amount to Blanck on his arrival at the Cape. The purchase price in both instances was Rds. 50.13,14
Catharina van Malabar was sold by Jacob Does to Joachim Blank on 3 April 1662. Böeseken says was given into the custody of Gillis Nonnemans on the Princes Roijael who was to hand her over to her new owner on their arrival at the Cape. Hattingh's transcription is somewhat different: Nonnemans purchased Catrina from Does in Batavia, on condition he would sell her for the same amount to Blanck on his arrival at the Cape, The purchase price in both instances was Rds 75.15,16
On 6 February 1663 Jan Vos was offered by Bartholomeus Boorn to Joachim Blank, as surety for a loan of f 200 at ¾% per month. Included as surety were all his possessions owned together with his partner Thomas Christoffel Müller, including a house on Dassen Island, vessels, sheep and pigs.17
Elbert Diemer bought the slaves, Anna van Bengalen and Claes van Bengale from Joachim Blanck on 27 November 1665.18,19

Citations

  1. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: date of birth an arbirtary estimate by preparer based on daughter's date of baptism merely to facilitate a potential timeline for future research., 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.).
  2. [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.284-286. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  3. [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), p.268 - The following Resolution was adopted :
    Saturday, the 28th May, 1661.
    "Jochum Blanck of Lubeck, keeper of the pay books of this Fort 'the Good Hope,' having betrothed himself to Johanna Boddys of Doesburgh, widow of the late Jan van Harwarden of blessed memory, and during his life Ensign of this Fort, and both having appeared before the Council, requesting that they may be united iii the Holy Bonds of Matrimony and allowed that their first banns may be published to-morrow after the sermon ; the Council not knowing otherwise than that both are free and according to their own declarations, which they offer to confirm by oath, have no engagement with any one else, resolves to grant these persons their reasonable request, and have their first banns published to-morrow after the sermon, and so consecutively every Sunday until the third, after which the solemnisation shall be solemn]y effected and
    the marriage publicly proceeded with.. Hereinafter cited as Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Vol III 1659-1662.
  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. "28 May 1661: Joachim / Jochum Blanck (from Lübeck) & Johanna Boddijs (from Doesburg [Gelderland]), widow of Jan van Harwarden, previously widow of Valentijn (Velten) Does."
  5. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, pp.287-289.
  6. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.299.
  7. [S663] Cape Town Baptisms 1653 to 1663: [April 1663] Den 8:en d:o heeft dom:e De Metre een predikatie gedaen, ende gedoopt dese vier navolgende kin-deren:
    een van Elbert Dirckx Diemer, vrijburger en is genaemt Christyna, de getuigen sijn Joachim Blanck, dispensier, ende sijn huijsvrou Jannetje Boiddijs, (1653-1663), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/, http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Cape Town Baptisms 1653 to 1663.
  8. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.292.
  9. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.296.
  10. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.302.
  11. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.305.
  12. [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "21 February 1657:     Return Fleet ex Batavia arrives:
    Prins Willem brings exiled convict (Company slave)
    Catharina (Groote Catrijn) van Paliacatta [Pulicat]
    Amersfoort brings 5 private slaves
    Angela / Engela (Maaij Ansela / Moeder Jagt) van Bengale [sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Elisabeth (Lijsbeth) van Bengale [misrecorded as Domingo [sic] - sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Jan van Bengale [sold to Jan Vetteman]
    Claes van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)]
    Anna van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)].    "
  13. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 125.28.3.1662, n. p. 48: Pieter from Ceylon, sold to Jacob Does in Batavia for Rds. 50, on condition that Denis van Meteren, a junior merchant on the Marsseveen, would hand the slave over to Jochem Blanck upon arrival at the Cape.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  14. [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): 28.3.1662     CTD 2, p.48
    Denis de Meteren, onderkoopman op die retoerskip Marseveen, verkoop aan Jochim Blanck, dispensier in die fort, die slaaf Pieter van Ceylon, wat hy te Batavia aan Jacob Does aldaar verkoop het (sic.) vir 50 Rds op die voorwaarde om die slaaf aan die Kaap aan Blanck af te gee vir dieselfde bedrag. [Geen ouderdom vermeld.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  15. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 125. 3.4.1662, I, pp. 298-299: Catrina from Batavia, sold to Jacob Does in Batavia on condition that Gillis Nonnemans, merchant on the Princes Roijael, would hand her over to Jochem Blanck upon his arrival at the Cape.
  16. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 3.4.1662     CTD I, p.298
    Gillis Nonnemans, koopman op die retoerskip Princes Roijael, verkoop aan Jochum Blanck, dispensier in die fort, die slavin Catrina … wat hy te Batavia aan Jacob Does verkoop het vir 75 Rds op die voorwaarde om die slavin aan Blanck vir dieselfde bedrag af te gee. [Geen land van herkoms of ouderdom vermeld nie.]
  17. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 6.2.1663     CTD 2, p.3
    Bartholomeus Borns van Waerden, vry Saldanhavaarder, se skuldbrief ten gunste van Jochum Blanck van Lubeck, dispensier in die fort, vir die bedrag van f 200 wat hy geleen het teen ‘n driekwart persent per maand. Borns bied as pand die helfte van al die goedere, soos sy huis op Dasseneiland, hul vaartuie, skape en varke wat hy saam met Thomas Christoffel Muller, mede vry Saldanhavaarder, besit asook sy eie slaaf genaamd Jan Vos.
  18. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 126. 27.11.1665, II, p. 258: Claas and Anna from Bengal, sold by Jochem Cornelis Blanck to Elbert Diemer.
  19. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 27.11.1665     CTD 2, p.257
    Jochim Blanck, boekhouer, verkoop aan Elbert Diemer van Immerick, vryburger, die slaaf en slavin, Claes en Anna. [Geen bedrag of ouderdom vermeld.]
  20. [S654] Mansell Upham 'UL01 What can't be cured, must be endured …', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "23 April 1662: Engel(a) Blanck daughter of Jochum Blancq & Johanna Boddijs; repatriates with parents."
  21. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Noch een dochter van Joachim Blank
    en Joanna Boddys, genaamt Beatrix, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
 

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