Hendrik van Seurwaarden

M, #7966, b. circa 1630, d. before August 1672

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Last Edited10/07/2015
BirthOrigin*Hendrik was from Sürwürden and may have been born there circa 1630. His age is estimated.1,2 
Marriage*He married Margarita Meeckhoff on 9 April 1658 de Caep de Goede Hoop.3,4,5,6
 
Death*He died before August 1672.4
 

Family

Margarita Meeckhoff b. c 1640
Children
Names in the record, in publications, etc.An unknown date , the name of Hendrik was written in the record as Hendrik Snijer.7
An unknown date , the name of Hendrik was written in the record as Hendrik Hendriks.
11 July 1666, the name of Hendrik was written in the record as Hendrik van Suurwaerden.8
29 June 1670, the name of Hendrik was written in the record as Henrick van Zuerwaarden.
Baptisms - WitnessHendrik van Seurwaarden and Dom:e Antonius Scherius and Thomas Christoffel Müller witnessed the baptism of Chrusella Mostaert on 23 April 1662 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.9
He and Catharina Croons witnessed the baptism of Ferdinandùs Appel on 4 October 1665 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.10,11,12
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 20 March 1656 Hendrik van Seurwaarden was enumerated in the muster roll, as a soldier.13
On 31 May 1657 Hendrik van Seurwaarden was enumerated in the muster roll, as a corporal earning f 14 per month.14
On 15 February 1658 Hendrik van Seurwaarden and Elbert Diemer were enumerated in the muster roll, among the freemen, as free burghers and tailors.15
Vrijbriewen and Burgher StatusOn 1 October 1657, Hendrik van Seurwaarden 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.16
Slave TransactionsOn 22 April 1662 Isabel van Angola was sold by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck to Hendrik van Seurwaarden de Caep de Goede Hoop.17,18
On 12 March 1668 Pieter van Guinea was sold by Thomas Christoffel Müller to Henrick van Zuerwaarden, for Rds 100.19,20,21
On 12 March 1668 Pieter Pietersz was sold by Thomas Christoffel Müller to Henrick van Zuerwaarden, for Rds 100.20,21
Slave EmancipationsAfter 15 May 1672 Jackie Joy van Angola and Isabel van Angola were emancipated by Henrick van Zuerwaarden de Caep de Goede Hoop, this was a testamentory manumission.22

Citations

  1. [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. "9 April 1658: Hendri(c)k Hendrikssen / Hendricxz: ( Hinrich Hinrichssen from Sürwürden [Oldenborg]) & Margaretha (Grietjen) Frans: Meeckhoff (from Steenwijck)."
  2. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
  3. [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), "9 April 1658: Hendri(c)k Hendrikssen / Hendricxz: ( Hinrich Hinrichssen from Sürwürden [Oldenborg]) & Margaretha (Grietjen) Frans: Meeckhoff (from Steenwijck)
    Den 9[sic]:en april is alhier, mede voor den raet getrout Heindrick Heindricxsz, geboortigh van Seurweurden vrijburger alhier, met Grietgen Fransz Meeckhoff, geboortigh van Steenwijck, hier gearriveert met het schip genaemt 't Wapen van Amsterdam, Godt de Heere gelieff de selve, al te samen te zegenen hier tijdelijck, en namaels, eeuwighlijck, Amen."
  4. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: Den 21 Augst'
    Wilhelm van Dieden jongm van Amsterdam, met Magreta Frans weduwe van den vryborger Henrick van Suurwaarden., 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. [S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946), p. 147. Hereinafter cited as Personalia.
  6. [S787] Church matters (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk), Incoming Letters, 9 April 1652-14 May 1663, (NL-SAA, archiefinventaris 379, inventarisnummer 206, pp. 29-35), (eGSSA - van der Stael Letters, http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/classis-amsterdam/…), 1658: Den 9:en april is alhier, mede voor den raet getrout Heindrick Heindricxsz, geboortigh van Seurweurden vrijburger alhier, met Grietgen Fransz Meeckhoff, geboortigh van Steenwijck, hier gearriveert met het schip genaemt 't Wapen van Amsterdam, Godt de Heere gelieff de selve, al te samen te zegenen hier tijdelijck, en namaels, eeuwighlijck, Amen as transcribed by Corney Keller.
  7. [S810] Mansell Upham 'At Earth's Extremest End… Op 't eijnde van de Aerd … The genealogical impact of the 'Angola' & 'Guinea' slaves at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century', 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), August 2014. "...the free-tailor H(e)inrich H(e)inrichssen [Zuerwaerden] (from Sürwürden [Oldenborg] aka Hendrik Snijer (c. 1635-1672)."
  8. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1666
    den 11 Julii een soontie van Hendrick van Suurwaerden en Grietje Franssen Meekhof syn huijs[vrouw] wiert genaemt Meyndert. de getuygen waren Wouter Mostert en
    Catharina Kroons, 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.).
  9. [S787] Church matters (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk), Incoming Letters, 9 April 1652-14 May 1663 (eGSSA - van der Stael Letters), Den 23 [April 1662]:...en alsoo dom:e Slipperius, mede inde kercke was, heeft de andere vier kinderen gedoopt, te weten het dochterken, van Wouter Cornelisz Mostaert, regerende burgeraet, en is genaemt Grisella, de getuigen sijn Heindrick Heindricxsz van Seurewaerden, vrijburger, en Thomas Muller vrije Saldanha vaerder...
  10. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 4 Octob. is gedoopt een zoon van Juriaen
    Janssen Appel, by Janneken Ferdinandus, en
    is genaamt Ferdinandus: de getuijgen waar
    Hendrik van Seurwaarden, en Catharina
    Croons, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  11. [S325] Lorna Newcomb and Ockert Malan, compilers, Annale van Nederduits Gereformeerde Moedergemeente Stellenbosch No 1.., CD-ROM (Stellenbosch) Die Genootskap vir die Kerkversameling, 2004 0-9584832-1-3), Baptism Register. Hereinafter cited as Palmkronieke I Baptisms.
  12. [S153] J.A. Heese & R.T.J. Lombard, South African Genealogies 1 A-C, HSRC SA Genealogies (Pretoria: Institute for Historical Research, Division Genealogical Research, Pretoria, 1986, 1989), ISBN 0-620-23962-X, p. 73. Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 1.
  13. [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.
  14. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, pp.287-289.
  15. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.294.
  16. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.264. As above to:- Hendrick Hendricksz:, of Surwierde, corporal, d.d. 1st October, 1657.
  17. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.125, 22.4.1662, I, p.290: Isabella from Angola, sold by Jan van Riebeeck to Hendrik van Zuerwaerden.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  18. [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): 22.4.1662     CTD I, p.290 [Verlore]
    Jan van Riebeeck, kommandeur, verkoop aan Hendrik van Zeurwaerde, vryburger, die Angolese slavin Isabella. [Geen ouderdom of bedrag vermeld.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  19. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 12.3.1668     CTD 3, p.203
    Thomas Christoffel Muller, vryburgerraad en tans op vertrek staan na Patria, verkoop aan Hend[rik] van Surwaerden [elders Zuerwaerden], mede gewese vryburgerraad, die Guinese slaaf Pieter van Guinee vir 100 Rds. [Geen ouderdom vermeld.]
  20. [S810] Mansell Upham 'UL 20 At Earth's Extremest End…', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Pieter Pietersz: van Guinea aka Pieter Rob appears to be purchased by Thomas Christoffel Muller (from Leipzig) who in turn sells him (12 March 1668) to Hendrik Snijer."
  21. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 127. 12.3.1668, pp. 203-204: Pieter from Guinea, sold by Thomas Christoffel Muller to Hendrick van Zuerwaerden for Rds. 100.
  22. [S810] Mansell Upham 'UL 20 At Earth's Extremest End…', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "He is promised his freedom - together with Isabella van Angola - on the demise (1672) of his patron the free-tailor H(e)inrich H(e)inrichssen [Zuerwaerden] (from Sürwürden [Oldenborg] aka Hendrik Snijer (c. 1635-1672). According to their master’s inventory, his master had promised to free both him and Isabella on his death. There is, however, no mention of any children for Isabella. Their master dies (15 May 1672). Jacqje Joij and Isabella are subsequently freed. [Upham cites: CA: MOOC 23/5, nos. 19-21 (Staat en Inventaris & Taxatie van Hendrick van Zuijrwaarden & verclaaring van Margaritha Frans: Meekhoff, 15 May 1672) which is not available on the Tanap.]"
  23. [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), "18 February 1659:
    birth:     son [? Hendrik] to Hendrik Hendrickssen (from Sürwürden [Oldenborg]) & Margaretha (Grietje) Frans: Meeckhoff (from Steenwijk [Overijssel]); no baptism found - dies as unbaptized infant?"
  24. [S325] Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms, Lorna:
    Elsie = 8.10.1662 d/v Hendrik Hendriksz van Suurwaerden en Grietje Meeckhof x 8.6.1681 Albert Jans van Breugel, onderkoopman. Hy was ook 'n fiskaal. Hulle huwelik was kinderloos en Albert sterf 1686 tydens 'n slawe ekspedisie na Madagaskar. (SA Biographies vol. 4 p. 676) 8.5.1689 trou Elsje met Andries de Man van Amsterdam sekunde aan die Kaap. (Sien SA Biographies Vol 2 p.171). Hulle dogter Maria Elisabeth =20.5.1691 x 10.5.1711 Jan de la Fonteine van Amsterdam wat in 1730 goewerneur van die Kaap word. Andries sterf 31.3.1695. Elsje xxx 16.12.1696 Hendrik Munkerus van Haarlem, Landdrost van Stellenbosch 1696 - 1698. Hy pleeg selfmoord op 29.1.1705. Simon van der Stel het aan Elsje die plaas De Tijgerberg (Altydgedacht) toegeken in 1698.
  25. [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), "8 May 1662:          
    birth: twins - boy dies but girl [Elsje van Suerwaerden] survives after baptism      
    "May 8th [1662]?Towards evening the wife of the free innkeeper, Hendrik van Zeurwerde, was confined of a boy and girl"."
  26. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1670
    Den 29 Junii
    een dochtertje van Henrick van Zuerwaarden en Margrietje Frans syn huysvr' wiert genaamt Weijntje Holmorsen tot getuygen stonden Dirck Bosch en Lijsbeth Jans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
 

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