Maria Luy
F, #8950, b. before 1685, d. after 1692
Birth* | Maria Luy was born before 1685 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, This estimate is based the muster rolls (monsterollen) and opgaafrollen (tax rolls) for the period 1682 and the baptism in 1688 of Dina van Cochin and her four children, Maria, Kasper Jans, Hendrick, and Antonij. Jan (Luij) van Ceylon and Dina van Cochin first appear in the Opgaafrol of 1685 as the partners of Marquart (Paij) van Ceylon when, according to Hattingh they owned patches of land in the Stellenbosch district. Jan Luij and Dina van Cochin are recorded with two sons and a daughter, all were unnamed but the daughter would have been Maria. Given the pattern of maternal reproduction in the period, it is likely the children were born approximately two years apart, suggesting that Dina van Cochin would have born her first child in about 1680.1,2 |
Baptism | Maria Luy was baptized on 1 February 1688 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by Elisabeth Nieumeyer and Jan Mostert. She was one of four siblings baptised on the same date, along with their mother, Dina van Couchin.3,1 |
Death* | She died after 1692 de Caep de Goede Hoop, when, in court for illegal hunting, Jan Luij refers to four children. Thereafter she seems to disappear from the record - the family is only enumerated with two sons in 1695. It is of course possible that she married, but no evidence of such has been thus far identified.4 |
Names in the record, in publications, etc. | 1 February 1688, the name of Maria was written in the record as Maria.5 |
Slave Emancipations | Dina van Couchin and Jan Luy van Ceylon were emancipated before 1685 when they appeared in the opgaafrol of free people for Stellenbosch; along with their daughter Maria; and two of their sons Casper Janse, Antonij and Hendrik. None of the children were named in the muster rolls or opgaafrollen, but based on other records, it is clear these are their offsping.7 |
Citations
- [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.
- [S545] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh Die Eerste Vryswartes van Stellenbosch 1679 - 1720, Wes-Kaaplandse Instituut vir Historiese Navorsing, Tygerberg, Cape Town, (1981) 0-909075-65-4.
- [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Den 1 Febrij. de volgende zijn aan Stellenbos gedoopt
[Ao. 1688]. eodem [1 Feb] haar kinderen het eerste is genaamt Kasper Jans, den [2de - inserted] Maria waar van getuijgen zijn Jan Mostaart ende Lijsbet Nieumeijer zijn Huijsvrouw, 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.).
- [S545] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh Die Eerste Vryswartes van Stellenbosch 1679 - 1720 "Sedert 1688 word daar vier kinders aangegee soos hy ook in Desember 1692 verklaar het toe hy daarvan aangekla was dat by wederregtelik gaan jag het."
- [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): [Ao. 1688]
eodem [1 Feb] haar [Dina] kindren. het eerste is genaamt Kasper Jans [ene] Maria
waar van getuigen sijn Jan Mostaart ende Lijsbet
Nieumeijer zine huijsvrou., 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
- [S545] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh Die Eerste Vryswartes van Stellenbosch 1679 - 1720 "Jan (Luij) van Ceylon en Di(a)na."
- [S545] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh Die Eerste Vryswartes van Stellenbosch 1679 - 1720 "Jan van Ceylon en Dina se name word vir die eerste keer in 1685 in die Kaapse monsterrol verstrek en toe het hulle alreeds drie kinders gehad. Sedert 1688 word daar vier kinders aangegee soos hy ook in Desember 1692 verklaar het toe hy daarvan aangekla was dat by wederregtelik gaan jag het."