Jacobus van Meerhof1

M, #8004, b. circa 1661, d. 1687
Father-Legal*Sr. Pieter van Meerhof b. c 1635, d. b 27 Feb 1668; Chronologically it is possible that this is a biological relationship, but it is more likely that Pieter van Meerhoff became Jacob's legal father when Pieter married Krotoa on 2 June 1664
Mother*Krotoa of the Goringhaicona2 b. 1641/42, d. 29 Jul 1674

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Last Edited27/04/2017
Birth*Jacobus van Meerhof was born circa 1661 in de Caep de Goede Hoop.1
 
BaptismCandidateJacobus van Meerhof may be the individual who was baptized on 28 August 1661 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was performed by Ds Godefridus van Akendam.3,4,5 
Death*He died in 1687 at sea, enroute from Mauritius.6
 

Citations

  1. [S605] Mansell G. Upham, "Who were the children of Eva Meerhoff", Capensis [Eva's children] 4/1998 (November 1998): p.14, Jacobus born Cape of Good Hope c. 1661. Hereinafter cited as "Eva's Children."
  2. [S605] Mansell G. Upham, "Eva's Children", p.14.
  3. [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/…), Augustij anno 1661
    Den 28:en d:o heeft dom:e Van Akendam wederom een predikatie gedaen, ende gedoopt dese vier na-volgende kinderen, een dochterken van Elbert Dircxsz vrijburger, ende is genaemt Christina de getuige is Jannetge Boddijs, twee zoontjes zijn genaemt Jacob, het vierde een meijsje is genaemt Annatje, dese drie zijn onechte kin-deren, Godt de Heere geef dat dese gedoopte kinderen, tot zijns neams eere mogen opwassen. as transcribed by Corney Keller.
  4. [S672] NGK Baptism Records Cape Town 1652 to 1695: 28 August
    Christina, daughter of Elbert Dircxsz, free burger
    Witness: Jannetge Boddijs
    Jacob, an illegitimate boy
    Jacob, another illegitimate boy
    Annatje, an illegitimate girl
    Den 28:en d:o heeft dom:e Van Akendam wederom een predikatie gedaen, ende gedoopt dese vier na-volgende kinderen, een dochterken van Elbert Dircxsz vrijburger, ende is genaemt Christina de getuige is Jannetge Boddijs, twee zoontjes zijn genaemt Jacob, het vierde een meijsje is genaemt Annatje, dese drie zijn onechte kin-deren, Godt de Heere geef dat dese gedoopte kinderen, tot zijns neams eere mogen opwassen., (1652 to 1695), unknown repository, unknown repository address. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Records Cape Town 1652 to 1695.
  5. [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. "Jacob buiten echt geboren moeder niet vermeld illegitimate halfslag free-born infant
    [?] Jacobus Meerhoff born Cape c. 1661; baptized [?] Cape 21/23 August 1661; illegitimate son of Krotoa baptized Eva by Pieter Meerhoff (from Copenhagen); legitimised by parents marriage (2 June 1664); dies unmarried at sea en route to Cape ex Mauritius 1687."
  6. [S605] Mansell G. Upham, "Eva's Children", p.14, died at sea en route from Mauritius 1687.
 

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