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Gerrit Janse (Jansz) VAN DEVENTER, progenitor

Gerrit Janse (Jansz) VAN DEVENTER, progenitor

Male 1665 - 1728  (~ 73 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Gerrit Janse (Jansz) VAN DEVENTER, progenitor was born between 1655 and 1665 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands; was christened on 15 Nov 1684 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa (son of Jan Pietersz VAN DEVENTER and Maria HOOGEBOOM, son of Jan Pietersz VAN DEVENTER and Maria HOOGEBOOM); died on 19 Apr 1728 in Zoetendal, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa.

    Notes:

    Burger Stellenbosch

    DuPlooy.paf: Hy was afkomstig van die stad Deventer, provinsie Overijssel in Nederland. Vertrek as soldaat 19.12.1683 met die vaartuig 'de Juffrouw Anna" vanuit Texel na die Kaap. Hulle land 10.4.1684 aan die Kaap. Die eerste jare van sy verblyf het hy dan ook binne die kasteel deurgebring. Op 31.5.1686 word hy vryburger aan die Kaap.

    Gerrit Jansz, seun van Jan Pieters (Jan se zoon, vandaar Jansz), verlaat Veldcamp* (vermoedelik 'n soldatekamp), naby die stad Deventer, provinsie Overijssel in Holland op 11 Junie 1683 op pad na Amsterdam. Vandaar reis hy na die eiland Texel, hoofkantoor van die Verenigde Oos-Indiese Kompanjie om as soldaat diens te doen. Op 19 Desember 1683 vertrek hy met die skip "De Juffraauw Anna" na die Kaap de Goede Hoop. Jan Molenaer van de Reede, kaptein van die skip, woonagtig op Texel, was op reis na Batavia. Hulle land op 10 April 1684 aan die Kaap, 32 jaar en 4 dae na Jan van Riebeeck (aankoms 6 April 1652 in die Kaap), terwyl Simon van der Stel die goewerneur aan die Kaap was. Die eerste paar jaar doen hy diens as soldaat binne die kasteel en word vryburger op 31 Mei 1686. Daar word vermoed dat hy na hierdie datum die van "Van Deventer" (geografiese van) aangeneem het of toegeken is. Aan die begin van 1688 bevind hy hom nog steeds by die kasteel en besit 50 "schapen". In die huweliksakte verwys hy na homself as Gerrit Jansz, van Veldcamp, vryburger uit Stellenbosch. By die doop van sy oudste dogter Jacomijntje in 1692 verwys hy na homself as Gerrit Jansz van Deventer. Sover bekend het slegs Gerrit Jansz hier in Suid-Afrika die van Van Deventer aangeneem. Gerrit Jansz van Deventer sterf sonder 'n testament en daar word 'n inventaris van sy besittings gemaak. KAB-MOOC-13/1/1-18-(1709-1711).Dr. H.T. Colenbrander gee in sy boek, De Afkomst der Boeren, aan dat Gerrit Jansz van Duitse afkoms was. Veldcamp kon dus, as sy stelling korrek is, in Duitsland gewees het.

    Volgens Pama I was hy van Veldcamp afkomstig. Burger te Stellenbosch.

    Alt Death: 19 Apr 1728 Zoutendal, Stellenbosch
    Gerrit Jansz van DEVENTER het van Veldcamp in Nederlands na die Kaap gekom. Op 29 Oktober 1688 het hy getrou in Kaapstad met Ariaenje JACOBS, sy was 'n weesmeisie van Rotterdam. Sy was gedoop op 25 Desember 1670 en was die dogter van Jacob Abrahamse en Heyltjie Ariens.Ariaentjie Jacobs was een van 8 weesmeisies wat op die Skip Berg China na die Kaap gekom het. Sy was gedoop in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Rotterdam op 25 Desember 1670. Haar vader was Jacob die seun van Abraham en haar moeder was Heiltjie die dogter van Arie. Sy was 18 jaar oud toe sy van die Gereformeerde Burgerweeshuis in Rotterdam na die Kaap gekom het.Johan van Deventer se navorsing meld dat, "Adriana Jacobs, dogter van Jacob Abrahamse en Heiltje Arijens, is gedoop te Rotterdam in Nederland op 25 Mei 1673. Haar ouer suster Ariaentje wat vroeer algemeen aangegee is as ons stammoeder, sterf op 2-jarige ouderdom en word op 16 November 1672 te Rotterdam begrawe. Op die ouderdom van 5 maande sterf Adriana se vader en op 8-jarige ouderdom sterf haar moeder. Sy word wees gelaat, met die adres Geertruidenberg wat sommer net "den Berg" genoem is. Sy beland in die Gereformeerde Burgerweeshuis in die Goudse Wagenstraat in Rotterdam, Nederland, en word die verkleinwoord Arijantgen of ook sommer Adriaantje genoem. In 1687 besluit die Here Sewentien om weesmeisies van die Rotterdamse weeshuis na die Kaap te stuur as vrouens vir die vryburgers. Saam met sewe ander weesmeisies vertrek sy op Saterdag 20 Maart 1688 vanuit Goere in Holland met die skip "Berg China" en arriveer in die Kaap op Woensdag 4 Augustus 1688."
    KINDERS
    b1 Jan Gerrit gedoop 21 Aug 1689, X 4 Okt 1711 Magdalena Brits
    b2 Jacomyntje gedoop 9 Maart 1692, X 27 Okt 1720 Cornelis van Rooyen, XX B Lindeque
    b3 Aletta gedoop 27 Jun 1700, X 8 Apr 1725 Pieter Willem Nel
    b4 Johanna Margaretha, X 14 Apr 1726 Philippus Snyman, XX 7 Apr 1735 Johan Heinrich Debes
    b5 Jacob * 1705, X 17 Apr 1735 Dorothea Coetzer, XX 15 Jan 1746 Martha Botha, XXX 13 Maart 1748 Hester van Jaarsveld
    b6 Geesje gedoop 18 Aug 1707
    b7 Hendrik * 1711b8 Gerrit gedoop Paarl 15 Mei 1713 (die moeder word nie genoem nie), X 30 Okt 1744 Rachel Joubert

    PLASE
    Gerrit het op Slot van die Paarl in Perdeberg geboer. Hy koop die plaas St Martyn in Noorder Paarl op 2 Augustus 1703 van Balthasar Weever. Van Deventer verkoop St Martyn op 30 Januarie 1709 aan Jacques Malan. Hierdie stamouers was die draers van 'n oorerflike siekte die volgende inligting het Anne Lehmkuhl vir my in Engels verskaf: Two of the founders of the European population in South Africa were Gerrit Jansz and his wife Ariaantje Jacobs. Pedigrees have traced the start of porphyria in South Africa to these two individuals. They had eight children, four of whom suffered from porphyria. A critical question asks which of the parents suffered from porphyria? Gerrit Jansz came from the Netherlands (the only other place in the world where porphyria is relatively common) and we know that Ariaantje's sister had a son with porphyria increasing the likelihood of Ariaantje having porphyria. It could even have been possible for both to have had it (What a coincidence!!!!) Draw a pedigree of Gerrit and Ariaantje's family. Assume for simplicity that only Gerrit suffered from porphyria and that he was heterozygous (Aa). Determine the genotypes for their eight children. Imagine that all of their children married non-affected individuals, and they each had four children. Determine the probability of Gerrit and Ariaantje's grandchildren having porphyria and assume that the probability expectations were met in reality. How many of Gerrit and Ariaantje's grandchildren suffer from porphyria? (Eight) If all the grandchildren married and had four children, how many of Gerrit and Ariaantje's great grandchildren would suffer from porphyria? (Sixteen)

    Sien Van Deventer D.& P. p.172. 29.10.1688 trou "Gerrit Janse van Veldcamp vryborger aan Stellenbos J.M. met Arriaantie Adriaanse van Rotteram J.D." Hy boer op Watervliet, Simondium
    Burger Stellenbosch

    DuPlooy.paf: Hy was afkomstig van die stad Deventer, provinsie Overijssel in Nederland. Vertrek as soldaat 19.12.1683 met die vaartuig 'de Juffrouw Anna" vanuit Texel na die Kaap. Hulle land 10.4.1684 aan die Kaap. Die eerste jare van sy verblyf het hy dan ook binne die kasteel deurgebring . Op 31.5.1686 word hy vryburger aan die Kaap.
    Gerrit Jansz, seun van Jan Pieters (Jan se zoon, vandaar Jansz), verlaat Veldcamp* (vermoedelik 'n soldatekamp), naby die stad Deventer, provinsie Overijssel in Holland op 11 Junie 1683 op pad na Amsterdam. Vandaar reis hy na die eiland Texel, hoofkantoor van die Verenigde Oos-Indiese Kompanjie om as soldaat diens te doen. Op 19 Desember 1683 vertrek hy met die skip "De Juffraauw Anna" na die Kaap de Goede Hoop. Jan Molenaer van de Reede, kaptein van die skip, woonagtig op Texel, was op reis na Batavia. Hulle land op 10 April 1684 aan die Kaap, 32 jaar en 4 dae na Jan van Riebeeck (aankoms 6 April 1652 in die Kaap), terwyl Simon van der Stel die goewerneur aan die Kaap was. Die eerste paar jaar doen hy diens as soldaat binne die kasteel en word vryburger op 31 Mei 1686. Daar word vermoed dat hy na hierdie datum die van "Van Deventer" (geografiese van) aangeneem het of toegeken is. Aan die begin van 1688 bevind hy hom nog steeds by die kasteel en besit 50 "schapen". In die huweliksakte verwys hy na homself as Gerrit Jansz, van Veldcamp, vryburger uit Stellenbosch. By die doop van sy oudste dogter Jacomijntje in 1692 verwys hy na homself as Gerrit Jansz van Deventer. Sover bekend het slegs Gerrit Jansz hier in Suid-Afrika die van Van Deventer aangeneem. Gerrit Jansz van Deventer sterf sonder 'n testament en daar word 'n inventaris van sy besittings gemaak. KAB-MOOC-13/1/1-18-(1709-1711).Dr. H.T. Colenbrander gee in sy boek, De Afkomst der Boeren, aan dat Gerrit Jansz van Duitse afkoms was. Veldcamp kon dus, as sy stelling korrek is, in Duitsland gewees het.

    Gerrit married Adriana JACOBS on 29 Oct 1688 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa. Adriana (daughter of Jacob ABRAHAMSE and Heiltje ARIENS) was born in 1670 in Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Netherlands; was christened on 25 Dec 1670 in Gereformeerde Kerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands; died on 16 Nov 1672 in Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Notes:

    Married:
    Van Deventer.ged gives Stellenbosch, Cape.

    Children:
    1. Jan Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b1 was born in 1689 in Veldcamp, Netherlands; was christened on 21 Aug 1689 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl); died in in Cape, South Africa.
    2. Jacomijntje VAN DEVENTER, b2 was born in 1691; was christened on 9 Mar 1692 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; died about 1737 in Cape, South Africa.
    3. Altijn Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b3 was christened on 27 Jun 1700 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    4. Johanna Margaretha Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b4 was born about 1702 in Cape, South Africa; was christened on 24 Jul 1701; died after 1757 in Cape, South Africa.
    5. Jacob Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b5 was born in Jul 1705 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, South Africa; was christened in Jul 1705; died in in Cape, South Africa.
    6. Geesje Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b6 was born in 1707 in Cape, South Africa; was christened on 18 Aug 1707 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl); died in 1730 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl).
    7. Hendrik Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b7 was christened on 1 Jan 1710; and died.
    8. Gerrit Gerritsz VAN DEVENTER, b8 was born in in Cape, South Africa; was christened on 14 May 1713 in Paarl, Cape, South Africa; died in 1757 in Cape, South Africa.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Jan Pietersz VAN DEVENTER was born about Jan 1627 in Netherlands; was christened on 24 Apr 1627 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands (son of Pieter Hermanus VAN DEVENTER and Fenneke Josephine HENDRIKS); died about 1695; was buried on 8 Apr 1662.

    Notes:

    Pieters verwys na sy vader nl. Pieter se seun.

    Jan married Maria HOOGEBOOM in 1652 in Netherlands. Maria was born in 1633 in Houten, Utrecht, Nederland; was christened in 1633 in Houten, Utrecht, Nederland; died in 1685 in Houten, Utrecht, Nederland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Maria HOOGEBOOM was born in 1633 in Houten, Utrecht, Nederland; was christened in 1633 in Houten, Utrecht, Nederland; died in 1685 in Houten, Utrecht, Nederland.

    Notes:

    From Utrecht

    Children:
    1. 1. Gerrit Janse (Jansz) VAN DEVENTER, progenitor was born between 1655 and 1665 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands; was christened on 15 Nov 1684 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; died on 19 Apr 1728 in Zoetendal, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Pieter Hermanus VAN DEVENTER was born about 1600 in Twello, Netherlands (son of Herman Pieters VAN DEVENTER and Maijke HERMANS); and died.

    Notes:

    Hermansz verwys na sy vader nl. Herman se zoon.

    Pieter married Fenneke Josephine HENDRIKS on 2 May 1626. Fenneke was born about 1600 in Netherlands; was christened in in Netherlands; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Fenneke Josephine HENDRIKS was born about 1600 in Netherlands; was christened in in Netherlands; and died.
    Children:
    1. 2. Jan Pietersz VAN DEVENTER was born about Jan 1627 in Netherlands; was christened on 24 Apr 1627 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands; died about 1695; was buried on 8 Apr 1662.
    2. Direk VAN DEVENTER was born about 1630 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands; and died.
    3. Merritje VAN DEVENTER was born about 1632 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands; and died.
    4. Hendrich VAN DEVENTER was born about 1634 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands; and died.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Herman Pieters VAN DEVENTER was born about 1570 in Netherlands (son of Pieter NN and Pn NN); and died.

    Notes:

    Pieters verwys na sy vader nl. Pieter se seun.

    Herman married Maijke HERMANS in 1599 in Deventer, Overyssel, Netherlands. Maijke was born about 1575 in Netherlands; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Maijke HERMANS was born about 1575 in Netherlands; and died.
    Children:
    1. 4. Pieter Hermanus VAN DEVENTER was born about 1600 in Twello, Netherlands; and died.


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