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Christoffel was een van die min manlike halfslag slawe wat in die wit gemeenskap ingetrou het. Christoffel trou in Julie 1689 met Margaretha Therese DE SAVOYE sy was van Gent, Vlaandere. Haar ouers was Jacques de Savoije en Christine du Pont (korrekte ouers gekry van Jean le Roux) , sommige gepubliseerde inligting verkeerdelike gee haar moeder as Marie Madeleine de Klerk.

Living false

Birth Date c. 1668

Death Date c. 1707

First Name Christoffel

Last Name Snyman

Gender Male

Birth Location Flanders, France

Baptism Date 3/9/1669

Death Location Drakenstein, Cape Province, South Africa

Christoffel SNIJMAN was baptised 9 March 1669, his father was Hans Christoffel Snijman a soldier at the Cape. His father had a secret affair with the slave woman Catharine of Bengal. She was also known as Groote Catrijn. His father was later sent to Robben Island on the 30 July 1667. Christoffel's mother was this Catherine of Bengal.

In a letter from the authorities on 6 January 1672 mention was made that Groot Catrijn was freed.

His mother later married the Free Black Anthony (Jansz) (de Later) of Bengal, and Anthony became his stepfather. Many people make the mistake by thinking that his stepfather was actually his father

A tradegy must have taken place because the whole family suddenly died between December 1682 and February 1683. The only survivor was Christoffel.

Christoffel was one of the few free slaves that married into the white community.

Christoffel married Margaretha Therese De Savoye in July 1689. She was from Gent, Flanders. Her parents were Jacques de Savoye and Christine du Pont. Some publications incorrectly give her mother as Marie Madeleine de Klerk.

They had nine children:

b1 Jacobus Christoffel Snyman, bap. 10.12.1690 (died young)

b2 Catharina Snyman, bap. 27.1.1692 x Johannes Viljoen

b3 Maria Magdelana Snyman, bap. 9.8.1693, x 15 Des 1710 Theunis Botha

b4 Christina Snyman, bap. 22.7.1695 x Jeremias Roux

b5 Elsie Snyman, bap. 1.8.1697 x 22 Okt 1713 Jacobus Botha

b6 Johanna Snyman, bap. 25.10.1699 x 7 Feb 1717 Anthonie Lombard

b7 Philippus Snyman, bap. 24.7.1701 x 14 Apr 1726 Johanna Margaretha van Deventer

b8 Susanna Snyman, bap. 28.10.1703 x Jacob Coetzer

b9 Elisabeth Snyman, bap. 21.3.1706, oorlede 18 Maart 1758 x Jan Hendrik van Helsdingen

Christoffel Snyman started farming in 1692 in partnership with Ernst Friedrich Walter. He farmed on the farm 'Sandvliet' in the Groot Drakenstein. Christoffel Snyman died in 1706.

Margaretha Therese DE SAVOYE then married Henning Viljoen.

Catharine of Bengal also known as Groote Catrijn was a slave from Bengale born about 1631 and she died about 1683. She was a slave woman from Paliacatte, on the Coromandel Coast, India. She was a slave in Batavia to the free woman Maria Magdalena (we don't know whether she had a surname)

She was sexually assaulted on 8 October 1656 by her lover, the slave Claes van Malabar, in a stable at the Fort Rijswijck. In the altercation, she hit Claes with a ladder across his stomach. Claes died four days later since his bladder had burst. Catharine then faced charges of murder and received the death sentence. She was however pardoned, being banished as a slave to the Cape. She arrived at the Cape on 21 February 1657 on the ship Prins Willem. This ship was part of the return fleet which left Batavia on 4 December 1656. She was the first recorded female slave convict at the Cape.

She had 2 voorkinders, one by the ensign and chief of the garrison, Pieter Everaerts from Bruijsaert and one by the soldier Hans Christoffel Snijder (this is the Dutch version of Schneider) also known as Snijman, from Heidelberg in the Palatinate.

Groote Catrijn had a relationship with Pieter Everaerts, who was a high Company official (he served in both the Council of Policy and the Council of Justice), she had his child. Everaerts died 15 March 1664. On 6 September 1665 there are two seperate entries for Company slave Catharina baptising two children Petronella and Anthony (there is greater certainty that Petronella was Groote Catrijn's child)

VOORKIND with Pieter EVERAERTS

Petronella. This daughter, Petronella, when she grew up she gave birth to a child also named Petronella (the father was a soldier Willem Jansen), both of them must have died in some tragedy with the other members of the family, maybe some disease.

TWO MORE CHILDREN BAPTISED BY GROOTE CATRIJN (Father unknown)

Susan = 2 Oct 1667

Anthoni = 13 Nov 1667

Hans Christoffel Snijman (also recorded as Christoffel Snijman) was a soldier in the garrison convicted and banished to Robben Island on 30th July 1667 for not standing guard - instead he had been sleeping on a regular basis with Groote Catrijn - washerwoman at the Fort to successive commanders. Thereafter, Snijders disappears from the records at the Cape. On instructions from the Council of India, Groote Catrijn was again pardoned.

VOORKIND with Hans Christoffel SNIJMAN

Christoffel Snyman baptised on 9 March 1669. (He became the stamvader of the Snyman family).

Groote Cathrijn then gets baptised herself as an adult with her fellow slave friend Mooij Ansela on 29 April 1668.

Catharina later married a free black (mardijker) Anthonij (Jansz) (de Later) van BENGALE on 20th December 1671. In a letter dated 6 January 1672 it is mentioned that Groot Catrijn was freely pardoned.

Groote Catrijn, her husband, her daughter and granddaughter - with the exception of Christoffel Snijman Jnr appear to have all died, in some family tragedy sometime between December 1682 and February 1683.

Antjonij Jansz van Bengale's sizeable estate provided for the boy's education and a substantial inheritance.

Christoffel Snyman was the stepson of Anthonie van Bengale.

Sources:

M Upham "In Hevigen Woede ... Groote Catrijn: Earliest Recorded Female Bandiet at the Cape of Good Hope - A Study in Upward Mobility" Capenis, Sept 1997. Part of a series.

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Christoffel was die stamvader van die Snymans in Suid-Afrika. Hy is die van Snyman (ook Senayement of Senayment) deur sy voog, Paul Roux, gegee. Hy het voor 1689 na die Kaap gekom. Hy boer in 1692 in vennootskap met Ernst Friedrich Walter.

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Christoffel SNIJMAN was gedoop 9 Maart 1669, sy vader was Hans Christoffel Snijman 'n soldaat by die Kaap. Sy vader het 'n skelm verhouding gehad met die slavin Catharina van Bengale, sy was ook bekend as Groote Catrijn (Kyk ook onder haar inskrywing). Sy vader is toe na Robben eiland gestuur op die 30 Julie 1667. Christoffel se moeder was hierdie Catharina van Bengale.

In 'n brief van die owerheid 6 Januarie 1672 word daar melding gemaak dat Groot Catrijn vrygestel was.

Sy moeder trou later met die vryswarte Anthony (Jansz) (de Later) van Bengale, wat toe sy stiefvader was. Baie mense maak die fout om te dink dat sy stiefvader sy vader was. Daar moes 'n tragedie plaasgevind het want die hele familie is ewe skielik oorlede tussen Desember 1682 en Februarie 1683, behalwe Christoffel.

Christoffel was een van die min manlike halfslag slawe wat in die wit gemeenskap ingetrou het. Christoffel trou in Julie 1689 met Margaretha (Marguerite) de SAVOYE sy was van Gent, Vlaandere. Haar ouers was Jacques de Savoije en Christine du Pont (korrekte ouers gekry van Jean le Roux) , sommige gepubliseerde inligting verkeerdelike gee haar moeder as Marie Madeleine de Klerk.

Christoffel Snyman het in 1692 geboer in vennootskap met Ernst Friedrich Walter. Hy het geboer op die plaas Sandvliet in Groot Drakenstein. Christoffel Snyman het in 1706 gesterwe. Margaretha Therese DE SAVOYE trou toe met Henning Viljoen.

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Christoffel Snyman was die seun van die Vryburger Anthony, van Bengale. Getroud voor 1690 met Marguerite de Savoye, d.v. Jacques de Savoye van Aeth in Frankryk en Marie Madeleine le Clercq van Doornik. Marguerite hertrou met Henning Viljoen.

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Christoffel Snyman, the son of a freed slave Anthony of Bengal and Catharina of Palicatte, married Marguerite de Savoy. The De Savoys were a prominent Huguenot family in the Cape.

Christoffel SNIJMAN was baptised 9 March 1669, his father was Hans Christoffel Snijman a soldier at the Cape. His father had a secret affair with the slave woman Catharine of Bengal. She was also known as Groote Catrijn. His father was later sent to Robben Island on the 30 July 1667. Christoffel's mother was this Catherine of Bengal.

In a letter from the authorities on 6 January 1672 mention was made that Groot Catrijn was freed.

His mother later married the Free Black Anthony (Jansz) (de Later) of Bengal, and Anthony became his stepfather. Many people make the mistake by thinking that his stepfather was actually his father

A tradegy must have taken place because the whole family suddenly died between December 1682 and February 1683. The only survivor was Christoffel.

Christoffel was one of the few free slaves that married into the white community.

Christoffel married Margaretha Therese De Savoye in July 1689. She was from Gent, Flanders. Her parents were Jacques de Savoye and Christine du Pont. Some publications incorrectly give her mother as Marie Madeleine de Klerk.

They had nine children:

b1 Jacobus Christoffel Snyman, bap. 10.12.1690 (died young)

b2 Catharina Snyman, bap. 27.1.1692 x Johannes Viljoen

b3 Maria Magdelana Snyman, bap. 9.8.1693, x 15 Des 1710 Theunis Botha

b4 Christina Snyman, bap. 22.7.1695 x Jeremias Roux

b5 Elsie Snyman, bap. 1.8.1697 x 22 Okt 1713 Jacobus Botha

b6 Johanna Snyman, bap. 25.10.1699 x 7 Feb 1717 Anthonie Lombard

b7 Philippus Snyman, bap. 24.7.1701 x 14 Apr 1726 Johanna Margaretha van Deventer

b8 Susanna Snyman, bap. 28.10.1703 x Jacob Coetzer

b9 Elisabeth Snyman, bap. 21.3.1706, oorlede 18 Maart 1758 x Jan Hendrik van Helsdingen

Christoffel Snyman started farming in 1692 in partnership with Ernst Friedrich Walter. He farmed on the farm 'Sandvliet' in the Groot Drakenstein. Christoffel Snyman died in 1706.

Margaretha Therese DE SAVOYE then married Henning Viljoen.

Catharine of Bengal also known as Groote Catrijn was a slave from Bengale born about 1631 and she died about 1683. She was a slave woman from Paliacatte, on the Coromandel Coast, India. She was a slave in Batavia to the free woman Maria Magdalena (we don't know whether she had a surname)

She was sexually assaulted on 8 October 1656 by her lover, the slave Claes van Malabar, in a stable at the Fort Rijswijck. In the altercation, she hit Claes with a ladder across his stomach. Claes died four days later since his bladder had burst. Catharine then faced charges of murder and received the death sentence. She was however pardoned, being banished as a slave to the Cape. She arrived at the Cape on 21 February 1657 on the ship Prins Willem. This ship was part of the return fleet which left Batavia on 4 December 1656. She was the first recorded female slave convict at the Cape.

She had 2 voorkinders, one by the ensign and chief of the garrison, Pieter Everaerts from Bruijsaert and one by the soldier Hans Christoffel Snijder (this is the Dutch version of Schneider) also known as Snijman, from Heidelberg in the Palatinate.

Groote Catrijn had a relationship with Pieter Everaerts, who was a high Company official (he served in both the Council of Policy and the Council of Justice), she had his child. Everaerts died 15 March 1664. On 6 September 1665 there are two seperate entries for Company slave Catharina baptising two children Petronella and Anthony (there is greater certainty that Petronella was Groote Catrijn's child)

VOORKIND with Pieter EVERAERTS

Petronella. This daughter, Petronella, when she grew up she gave birth to a child also named Petronella (the father was a soldier Willem Jansen), both of them must have died in some tragedy with the other members of the family, maybe some disease.

TWO MORE CHILDREN BAPTISED BY GROOTE CATRIJN (Father unknown)

Susan = 2 Oct 1667

Anthoni = 13 Nov 1667

Hans Christoffel Snijman (also recorded as Christoffel Snijman) was a soldier in the garrison convicted and banished to Robben Island on 30th July 1667 for not standing guard - instead he had been sleeping on a regular basis with Groote Catrijn - washerwoman at the Fort to successive commanders. Thereafter, Snijders disappears from the records at the Cape. On instructions from the Council of India, Groote Catrijn was again pardoned.

VOORKIND with Hans Christoffel SNIJMAN

Christoffel Snyman baptised on 9 March 1669. (He became the stamvader of the Snyman family).

Groote Cathrijn then gets baptised herself as an adult with her fellow slave friend Mooij Ansela on 29 April 1668.

Catharina later married a free black (mardijker) Anthonij (Jansz) (de Later) van BENGALE on 20th December 1671. In a letter dated 6 January 1672 it is mentioned that Groot Catrijn was freely pardoned.

Groote Catrijn, her husband, her daughter and granddaughter - with the exception of Christoffel Snijman Jnr appear to have all died, in some family tragedy sometime between December 1682 and February 1683.

Antjonij Jansz van Bengale's sizeable estate provided for the boy's education and a substantial inheritance.

Christoffel Snyman was the stepson of Anthonie van Bengale.

Sources:

M Upham "In Hevigen Woede ... Groote Catrijn: Earliest Recorded Female Bandiet at the Cape of Good Hope - A Study in Upward Mobility" Capenis, Sept 1997. Part of a series.

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Christoffel was die stamvader van die Snymans in Suid-Afrika. Hy is die van Snyman (ook Senayement of Senayment) deur sy voog, Paul Roux, gegee. Hy het voor 1689 na die Kaap gekom. Hy boer in 1692 in vennootskap met Ernst Friedrich Walter.

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Married 1688

Burger od Drakenstein

First Inter marraige between Dutch & French Hugonots

Lived on the farn Vrede en Lust. The farm still exists today.

a1 Christoffel SNYMAN, ∗ ±1669, ≈ 09.03.1669,

† <1707 »» Kinders (9): 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 3469, 3470

x ±1690, Marguerite DE SAVOYE (d.v. Jacques

DE SAVOYE & Christine DU PONT), ∗ Ghent,

Frankryk 04.09.1672

Born: 1667 2

Christened: 9 Mar 1669, Cape Town, Cape Province

Marriage: Marguerite Therese DE SAVOYE circa 1689 in Cape Town, Cape Province

Died: Cir 1706, Cape Colony at age 39

Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: farmer on the farm "Sandvliet", 1690, Drakenstein, Cape Province.

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founding father of the snyman tree

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Worked on a farm in Groot Drakenstein called Sandvliet, that he bought in 1692 and left it to his widow after his death.

Mixed race: German (father) / Indian (mother) -------------------- Christoffel SNIJMAN was gedoop 9 Maart 1669, sy vader was Hans Christoffel Snijman 'n soldaat by die Kaap. Sy vader het 'n skelm verhouding gehad met die slaafin Catharina van Bengale, sy was ook bekend as Groote Catrijn (Kyk ook onder haar inskrywing). Sy vader is toe na Robben eiland gestuur op die 30 Julie 1667. Christoffel se moeder was hierdie Catharina van Bengale.

In 'n brief van die owerheid 6 Januarie 1672 word daar melding gemaak dat Groot Catrijn vrygestel was.

Sy moeder trou later met die vryswarte Anthony (Jansz) (de Later) van Bengale, wat toe sy stiefvader was. Baie mense maak die fout om te dink dat sy stiefvader sy vader was. Daar moes 'n tragedie plaas gevind het want die hele familie is ewe skielik oorlede tussen Desember 1682 en Februarie 1683, behalwe Christoffel.

Christoffel was een van die min manlike halfslag slawe wat in die witgemeenskap ingetrou het. Christoffel trou in Julie 1689 met Margaretha Therese DE SAVOYE sy was van Gent, Vlaandere. Haar ouers was Jacques de Savoije en Christine du Pont (korrekte ouers gekry van Jean le Roux) , sommige gepubliseerde inligting verkeerdelike gee haar moeder as Marie Madeleine de Klerk.

Hulle het nege kinders gehad: b1 Jacobus Christoffel Snyman, ged 10.12.1690 (jonk oorlede?) b2 Catharina Snyman, ged 27.1.1692 x Johannes Viljoen b3 Maria Magdelana Snyman, ged 9.8.1693, x 15 Des 1710 Theunis Botha b4 Christina Snyman, ged 22.7.1695 x Jeremias Roux b5 Elsie Snyman, ged 1.8.1697 x 22 Okt 1713 Jacobus Botha b6 Johanna Snyman, ged 25.10.1699 x 7 Feb 1717 Anthonie Lombard b7 Philippus Snyman, ged 24.7.1701 x 14 Apr 1726 Johanna Margaretha van Deventer b8 Susanna Snyman, ged 28.10.1703 x Jacob Coetzer b9 Elisabeth Snyman, ged 21.3.1706, oorlede 18 Maart 1758 x Jan Hendrik van Helsdingen Christoffel Snyman het in 1692 geboer in vennootskap met Ernst Friedrich Walter. Hy het geboer op die plaas Sandvliet in Groot Drakenstein. Christoffel Snyman het in 1706 gesterwe. Margaretha Therese DE SAVOYE trou toe met Henning Viljoen.

Bronne: Inligting van Danie Viljoen Mansell Upham, "In Hevigen Woede", Capensis Inligting van Jean le Roux

Saamgestel deur: AM van Rensburg

Catharina van Bengale / Groot Catrijn ..... Snyman connection. (article taken from the internet)

Groot Catrijn, was also known as Catharina van Bengale. She was a slave woman from Paliacatte, on the Coromandel Coast, India. She was born about 1631 and died about 1683. She was a slave in Batavia to the free woman Maria Magdalena (we don't know whether she had a surname).

Catrijn was sexually assaulted on 8 October 1656 by her lover, the slave Claes van Malabar, in a stable at Fort Rijswijck. In the altercation, she hit Claes with a ladder across his stomach. Claes died four days later due to a burst bladder from the blow he received. Catharine then faced charges of murder and received the death sentence. She was however pardoned, being banished as a slave to the Cape. She arrived at the Cape on 21 February 1657 on the ship Prins Willem. This ship was part of the return fleet which left Batavia on 4 December 1656. Catrijn was the first recorded female slave convict at the Cape.

Groote Cathrijn then gets baptised as an adult with her fellow slave friend Mooij Ansela on 29 April 1668.

The soldier Hans Christoffel Snijman had a relationship with Groot Catrijn who was a slave woman. From this relationship was born Christoffel Snijman. Christoffel Snyman was baptised on 9 March 1669.

Groot Catrijn later got married the free black (mardijker) Anthonij (Jansz) (de Later) van BENGALE on 20th December 1671. In a letter dated 6 January 1672 it is mentioned that Groot Catrijn was freely pardoned. A tragedy must have taken place since the whole family died between December 1682 and February 1683, the only one who did not die was Christoffel Snijman. Many people wrongly consider the father of Snijman to be this free black, but he was the stepfather. Christoffel is the stamvader of the Snyman family.

Groote Catrijn FROM BENGALS Born: Cir 1631, Paliacatta, Dravida, India Christened: 29 Apr 1668, Cape Town Unmarried (1): Pieter EVERAERTS (Stamvader) Unmarried (2): Unknown UNKNOWN Unmarried (3): Hans Christoph SNIJDER (Stamvader) Marriage (4): Anthonij Jansz FROM BENGALS on 20 Dec 1671 in Cape Town Died: Between Dec 1682 and Feb 1683, Cape Town about age 51

General Notes: Groote Catrijn was charged with the murder of Claes from Malabar on 8 Oct 1656 in Batavia (Jakarta, island of Java, Indonesia). She hit Claes with an angular hay ladder and hit him until his bladder burst. He died during the night of 11/12 Oct 1656.

On 16 Nov 1656 Groote Catrijn was sentenced to be tied to a stake and strangled until she died.

On 18 Nov 1656 the Governor-General, Joan Maetsuyeker, reviewed the case and found that Groote Catrijn had been sexually abused by Claes and she was pardoned. She was however banned from Batavia and sentenced to work as a company slave in the Cape of Good Hope for the rest of her natural life.

Noted events in her life were: • Residence, 1656, Batavia. • Emigration: as slave on the ship "Prins Willem", 21 Feb 1657, Paliacatta, Dravida, India.

Groote had a relationship with Pieter EVERAERTS (Stamvader). (Pieter EVERAERTS (Stamvader) died in Mar 1664 and was buried on 17 Mar 1664 in Cape Town.)

Groote also had a relationship with Unknown UNKNOWN.

Groote also had a relationship with Hans Christoph SNIJDER (Stamvader). (Hans Christoph SNIJDER (Stamvader) died circa 1668 in Robben Island, Cape Town.)

Groote next married Anthonij Jansz FROM BENGALS on 20 Dec 1671 in Cape Town. (Anthonij Jansz FROM BENGALS was born circa 1650 in Bengals, India, christened on 12 Sep 1670 in Cape Town and died in Dec 1682 in Cape Town.)