Gerrit van der Swaan - Gerrit Theunisz - seun van Theunis - van der Swaan < Will - Krugel, Hendrik &Maria van der Swaan - 1740, Cape Archives, CJ 2656, 10 - filed 7 Aug 1769 den Testatrice ... haar moed[er] Antonetta Campher voormaels wed van Gerrit van den Swaan ...

baptisms, 18 May 1709 Marritie, de vader gerrit vander Swaan, de moeder Agnitie Camfer -------

Church Registers - Stellenbosch Congregation, Consulted as microfilm at the LDS and as Palmkronieke facsimile, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk Argief, Stellenbosch, G2/7/1 marriages 1700-1786; His date of death - between 1709 and 171 based on the date of birth of his last and Arij van Wijck's first child

He appears in infantry troop under Pieter van der Byl in the October 1700 musters of the Stellenbosch and Drakenstein militia. (1 STB 13/21, folio 6)

Listed as a single man in the muster rolls of 1703 in Stellenbosch.

He is mentioned as one of the people to whom the late Francois Bastiaense Armentier owed money: Aan Gerrit van der Swaan f.12 (MOOC 8/2, 18 1/2 - dated only 1708)

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