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Daniel BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1b5

Daniel BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1b5

Male Abt 1707 - 1777  (~ 70 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Daniel BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1b5 was born about 1707; was christened on 17 Jul 1707 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa (son of Dr. Johannes BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1 and Johanna VAN DEN BOSCH, a1b2); died in 1777 in Tulbagh, Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    5th child

    Daniel married Elizabeth (Isabeau) LAURET (LORET), a1b2 on 25 May 1732 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl). Elizabeth (daughter of Guillaume LORET (LAURET), a1 and Elizabeth JOUBERT, a1b3) was born about 1714 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 30 Sep 1713 in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; died on 22 Oct 1760 in Tulbagh, Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Maria Petronella BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c3 was born about 1732 in Cape, South Africa; was christened on 2 Jun 1737 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; died on 18 May 1775 in Land van Waveren, Cape, South Africa (Tulbagh).
    2. Johannes BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c1 was christened on 12 Jul 1733; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    3. Johanna Elizabeth BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c2 was born in 1735 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 24 Apr 1735; died in in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.
    4. Daniel BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c4 was christened on 28 Jun 1739; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    5. Elizabeth BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c5 was christened on 21 May 1741; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    6. Anna BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c6 was christened on 19 May 1743; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    7. Sara BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c7 was christened on 19 Dec 1745; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    8. Esther (Ester) BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c8 was christened on 17 Sep 1747; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    9. Geertruy BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), b5c9 was christened on 4 Jan 1750; died in in Cape, South Africa.

    Daniel married Isabeau (Elisabeth?) LORET on 25 May 1732 in Paarl, Cape, South Africa. Isabeau was christened on 30 Sep 1714 in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Dr. Johannes BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1 was born in 1668 in Bockelberg, Kolberg, Germany; died in 1709 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    Arrived at Cape in 1693 as soldier in the service of the V.O.C in Batavia. In 1695 went with ship "Selfstandigheid" [Independence] as junior surgeon, successor to junior surgeon Van Heel, to Mauritius. Started sugar industry through knowledge of sugar refining. Board Member of Mauritius. Went back to Batavia where he became a free burger in February 1704. Moved to Cape in 1705 with his four children as Surgeon at Stellenbosch. Heemraad from 1706.

    Du Plooy.paf: He arrived in Batavia in 1693 as a soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he went to Mauritius as chief surgeon. In 1704 he received citizens rights, arriving in the Cape in 1705 and became a doctor in Stellenbosch. He came from Kolberg, Prussia, currently Kolobrzeg, Poland.

    Stamvader Johannes Bockelenberg also known as Bockelberg was born in 1668. In 1693 he arrived in Batavia as a soldier from Kolberg. Kolobrzeg (AKA Kolberg) a town in the Polish Lowlands on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the river Prosnika. He was in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he left for Mauritius as chief surgeon. He married Magdalena Zaayman, daughter of Daniel Zaayman and Pieternella Meerhof. Magdalena died on 6 November 1704 and on 22 October 1705 Johannes married Johanna van der Bosch, dauhgter of stamvader Jan van der Bosch and Cornelia Helm. In 1705 Johanes arrived at the Cape and practised as doctor at Stellenbosch where he was also a district councillor.

    Sources:
    de Villiers and Pama, Genealogies of old S A Families 1981
    Geƫllustreerde Atlas van Europa (a Dutch promotional atlas, publisher not mentioned, published 1954)

    Arriveer in Batavia 1693 as VOC soldaat van Kolberg. Kolobrzeg (AKA Kolberg) was 'n dorpie in die Poolse Laaglande langs die riviermond van die Prosnika aan die Baltiese See. In 1697 vertrek hy na Mauritius as hoof chirurgyn.

    Na sy eerste vrou ('n kleindogter van Pieter Meerhof en Eva Kroroa) se dood verkry hy burgerregte in 1704 en kom in 1705 aan die Kaap aan (met Pieternella se 3 dogtertjies). Hy werk later as dokter op Stellenbosch. Hy was ook 'n "district councillor" hier.

    Ball Website:
    He seems to have spent circa 1697 until about 1700 as junior surgeon on Mauritius.
    He appears then to have been transferred to Batavia as Chief Surgeon, from whence he, his wife and his children returned to Mauritius some time in 1704.
    J.A.Hoge states that his wife died on 6th November, 1704 and that he and his children then transferred to the Cape where they arrived in 1705, settling in Stellenbosch. Certainly, he married in Stellenbosch on the 5th October 1705.

    His farm in Stellenbosch, Moddergat, 54 morgen in size, was sold from his estate 7th August 1709 to Nicolaas Gockelius and immediately sold on by him to Theunis de Bruijn. The original grant was dated 3rd December 1692 but to whom it was made is not stated. (MOOC 9/1/39)

    Sources for his history before 1705, which is an amalgamation and interpretation of conflicting statements:
    1. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Received 1695-1708, by H.C.V. Leibbrandt, Cape Town, 1896, Pages 93, 99, 174, 197, 339. and 2. Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, by J.A.Hoge, Cape - Times Limited, 1947, page 37.


    He arrived in Batavia in 1693 as a soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he went to Mauritius as chief surgeon. In 1704 he received citizens rights, arriving in the Cape in 1705 and became a doctor in Stellenbosch. He came from Kolberg, Prussia, currently Kolobrzeg, Poland.

    STAMVADER
    Johannes BOCKELENBERG
    Stamvader Johannes Bockelenberg also known as Bockelberg was born in 1668. In 1693 he arrive d in Batavia as a soldier from Kolberg. Kolobrzeg (AKA Kolberg) a town in the Polish Lowlands on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the river Prosnika. He was in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he left for Mauritius as chief surgeon. He married Magdalena Zaayman, daughter of Daniel Zaayman and Pieternella Meerhof. Magdalena died on 6 November, 1704 and on 22 October, 1705 Johannes married Johanna van der Bosch, dauhgter of stamvader Jan van der Bosch and Cornelia Helm. In 1705 Johanes arrived at the Cape and practised as doctor at Stellenbosch where he was also a district councillor.

    Sources:
    de Villiers and Pama, Genealogies of old S A Families 1981Geƫllustreerde Atlas van Europa (a Dutch promotional atlas, publisher not mentioned, published 1954)
    married (1) Magdalena Zaaijman died before 1709

    BOCKELBERG, JOHANNES (S) .-Kolberg in Pomerania. * 1668. Arrived at Batavia 1693 as so . ; later appointed chief-surgeon. In 1697 he was sent as chief-surgeon to Mauritius and commissioned to establish a sugar refinery . About the same time he was married to Magdalena Zaayman, d. of Daniel Zaayman and Petronella Meerhof, d. of Peter M . of Copenhagen and Eva of the C. In 1704 he was granted burgher rights by the government of Batavia. His wife died 6 .11 .1704 and B. went with his children to the Cape, where he arrived in 1705 and settled as surgeon at Stellenbosch . On 12.10.1705 he was remarried to Johanna van den Bosch . He was elected Heemraad and died 1709 . He had 6 children, 4 by his first wife and 2 by his second.

    (Vrybrief dated Batavia, the last of February, 1704 ; Leibbrandt, Letters desp . 1696-1708, pp . 59 f. and 263, Letters rec . 1695-1708 nr. 344 ; Letter of Pieter Zaayman to Bockelberg, dated 18.4.1706, in MOOC 14:212 ; Wills in Stellenbosch Arch ., vol . 647:12 and Test . O.C. 1:59 and 2:33 ; G.R. nr. 256. )

    (Research):Geboorteplek kan ook wees: Kolobrzeg, Koszalinskiego, Poland

    Birth:
    Ball Website:
    Born circa 1668, Colberg in Hinderpoomeren

    Johannes married Johanna VAN DEN BOSCH, a1b2 on 24 Oct 1705 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa. Johanna (daughter of Jan VAN DEN BOSCH, progenitor and Cornelia HELM, a4b2) was born about 1690 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 11 Jun 1690 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died about 1747 in South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Johanna VAN DEN BOSCH, a1b2 was born about 1690 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 11 Jun 1690 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa (daughter of Jan VAN DEN BOSCH, progenitor and Cornelia HELM, a4b2); died about 1747 in South Africa.

    Notes:

    will dated 17 November 1738
    and filed 21 October 1747

    Inventory - Hanekom, Johanna - 1755
    dated 11 September 1755
    Cape Archives, consulted on the TANAP Cape Inventories web site,MOOC 8/8, 13

    Inventory - Hanekom, Johanna - 1755
    dated 11 September 1755
    Cape Archives, consulted on the TANAP Cape Inventories web site,MOOC 8/8, 13

    Notes:

    Married:
    (Nie 12 Oktober soos in SAG nie)
    Alt. Marriage: Johanna van den BOSCH a1b2 Date: 12 Oct 1705 Location: Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa Notes: (Nie 12 Oktober soos in SAG nie)

    Children:
    1. 1. Daniel BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1b5 was born about 1707; was christened on 17 Jul 1707 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; died in 1777 in Tulbagh, Cape, South Africa.
    2. Johanna BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG) was born in 1709; and died.
    3. Johanna BOCKELENBERG(BOCKELBERG), a1b6 was born in in Cape, South Africa; was christened on 13 Oct 1709; died in in Cape, South Africa.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Jan VAN DEN BOSCH, progenitor was born in 1670 in Haarlem, Delft, Netherlands; was christened in in Jan came to South-Africa as a settler.; died before 1693 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    1. Jan van den Bosch was born Abt. 1665 in Haarlem, Netherlands, and died Abt. 1692 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. He married Cornelia Helm 28 March, 1688 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Source: LDS film 184256 page 1158 reference 24303.), daughter of Hans Helm and Geertruy Willemse. She was born 16 September, 1673 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Source: LDS film 184779.), and died Aft. 1692 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

    More About Cornelia Helm: Baptism: 17 september 1673, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa (Source: LDS film 184779.)

    More About Jan den Bosch and Cornelia Helm: Marriage: 28 March, 1688, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Source: LDS film 184256 page 1158 reference 24303.)

    Children of Jan den Bosch and Cornelia Helm are: + 2 i. Catharina van den Bosch, born Abt. 29 januari 1688/89 in Drakenstein, Cape of Good Hope; died Unknown in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
    3 ii. Johanna van den Bosch, born Bef. 11 June, 1690 in Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa; died Unknown in ? Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. She married (1) Johannes Bockelenberg 12th October, 1705 in Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony; died Unknown. She married (2) Mauritz van Staden 1710 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa. She married (3) Jurgen Or Jors Hanekom 11 November, 1717 in Drakenstein, Cape of Good Hope.

    More About Johanna van den Bosch: Baptism: 11 June, 1690, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa


    More About Johannes Bockelenberg and Johanna den Bosch: Marriage: 12th October 1705, Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony


    More About Mauritz van Staden and Johanna den Bosch: Marriage: 1710, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa

    More About Jurgen Hanekom and Johanna den Bosch: Marriage: 11th November 1717, Drakenstein, Cape of Good Hope

    4 iii. Johannes van den Bosch, born Abt. 13th April, 1692 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

    More About Johannes van den Bosch: Baptism: 13th April 1692, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

    He was a widower when he married Cornelia Helmes.

    The inventory of his deceased estate lists a house and garden situated in the Tafelvalleij (today Cape Town) which had been bought in the last two years or so (the last payment was still owing) from Willem van Wijk, valued at 1500 gulden, as well as 300 sheep, three beasts of pulling, half of a wagon, the other half owned by Jan Marschalck, 3 horses (2 ruijns and 1 mare).

    Also a good collection of household furnishings, the total valued at 3000 guldens, not rich, but not badly off, and not too many debts.

    Jan married Cornelia HELM, a4b2 on 28 Mar 1688 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa. Cornelia (daughter of Hans HELM, a4 and Geertruy WILLEMSE) was born before 17 Sep 1673 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 17 Sep 1673 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died in May-Jun 1720 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Cornelia HELM, a4b2 was born before 17 Sep 1673 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 17 Sep 1673 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa (daughter of Hans HELM, a4 and Geertruy WILLEMSE); died in May-Jun 1720 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    Alternative date: After 1692

    1. Pama had Helm under van Wyk and only had Arie van Wyk and Johannes van den Bosch as her husbands.

    2. Heese has her as Helms and Arie van Wyk and Jacob Kutzer as her husbands.

    3. Heese has the marriage as in 1717 whereas the first childis born in 1716. She was his first wife, while she had one to two husbands before Kutzer. 2 SOUR S14 3 PAGE p. 286



    Vanuit De Villiers en Pama Vol II (van Wyk)

    Arie van Wyk, Y. Amsterdam, waarsk. 'n broer van Willem, bogenoemd, Aank. omstr. 1676/78. Burger Stellenbosch. x Cornelia Helm, wed.v. Johannes van den Bosch.
    bl Roelof, = 5.9.lG3-1. burger Drakenstein, x 28.9.1727 Aletta Bezuldenhout


    Cornelia Helmes
    born circa 1676, at the Cape
    died between May and June 1720
    will dated 23 May 1720
    and filed 21 June 1720

    Notes:
    In 1692 she and Jan van den Bos are listed in the muster rolls with three children. All her children are given as listed in her two wills, one made with Arij van Wijk in 1713, the other with Jacob Coetser in 1720. Both wills states that she had eight Van Wijck children and give their names - the earlier will gives their ages as well. The details of her children's spouses and their children come from the Deceased Estate Accounts of her son Willem van Wijk d'oude, accounts dated 1771-72.

    married (1) 28 March 1688 at Cape Town

    Johannes van den Bosch
    died circa 1692



    Catharina issue Johanna <../bosmandevriesbuys/I139.html> issue Johannes d.1713



    married (2) circa October 1693

    ( On the 22nd October 1693 the Weeskamer noted that
    she was proposing to marry again: ' de nagelaatene
    wed' van Jan Van den bosch salg. Staat om in den
    Egten staat te treeden' )

    Arie van Wijk
    circa 1668-circa 1713
    farmer (1713)
    of Stellenbosch



    Roelof 1694 - c1746 issue Aletta 1696 - bef.1771 issue Willem 1698 - 1771 Sara b.1699Adrianus b.1701 Maria c1704 - c1744 issue Adriaan 1705 - bef.1771 issue Gerrit 1707 - c1708

    Catarina b.1710 Hester b. c1712



    married (3) 15 September 1714 at Stellenbosch

    Jacob Coetser



    Johannes Jacobus b.1716 Dorothea b.1717

    Died:
    Alternative date: After 1692

    Children:
    1. Catharina VAN DEN BOSCH, b1 was born before 29 Jan 1689 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl); was christened on 29 Jan 1689.
    2. 3. Johanna VAN DEN BOSCH, a1b2 was born about 1690 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 11 Jun 1690 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died about 1747 in South Africa.
    3. Johannes VAN DEN BOSCH was born in in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 13 Apr 1692 in Cape, South Africa; died in in Cape, South Africa.


Generation: 4

  1. 14.  Hans HELM, a4 was born in 1645 in Netherlands; was christened in in Hans and Geertruy arrived in 1671 with; died in in Cape, South Africa; was buried in his wife..

    Notes:

    Arrived from the Netherlands 1671
    Ek weet glad nie hoekom hulle hierde familie altyd HELM noem nie - hulle word altyd HELMES of HELMERS in die registers, monsterollen, ens. genoem.

    Afkomstig van Nederland. Arriveer in 1671 met sy vrou.

    Hans married Geertruy WILLEMSE about 1670 in Holland, Netherlands. Geertruy was born between 1640 and 1650 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; was christened in in Geertruy and Hans arrived in 1671.; died in in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 15.  Geertruy WILLEMSE was born between 1640 and 1650 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; was christened in in Geertruy and Hans arrived in 1671.; died in in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    1. Records in possession of J.P.Hansie Brummer
    2. Name also known as Geertje

    Arriveer vanaf Nederland as vrou van Hans Helm in 1671

    Notes:

    Married:
    Alt Marriage: Hans HELM a4 Date: Abt 1670 Location: Cape Town, Cape, South Africa

    Children:
    1. Margaretha HELM, a4b1 was born in in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 21 Jun 1671 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    2. 7. Cornelia HELM, a4b2 was born before 17 Sep 1673 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 17 Sep 1673 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died in May-Jun 1720 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa.
    3. Cornelise HELM was born on 17 Sep 1673 in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 17 Sep 1673 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; and died.
    4. Maria HELMS, a4b3 was born in in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 24 Nov 1675 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    5. Geertruy HELMS, a4b4 was born in in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 29 Oct 1678 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    6. Geertruyd HELMS was born on 29 Oct 1678 in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; and died.
    7. Dirkje HELM(ES), a4b5 was born in 1682; was christened on 18 Jan 1682; died in 1767 in Cape, South Africa.
    8. Willem HELM was christened on 28 Jul 1786; died in in Cape, South Africa.


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