Hi all,
We have Inconsistencies on dates, Gerd birth date is after his mother death.
The parents details stated her according to me is related to his wife ansestors.
His parents information is wrong, see below:
https://www.justanswer.com/genealogy/7mp4n-looking-parents-gerd-eng...
Birth* Gerd Engelbrecht was born circa 1720 in Norden, East-Friesland.
Marriage* He married Catharina Elisabeth de Jong, daughter of Krelis Cornelisz de Jong and Elizabeth Kops van de Caeb, on 17 October 1745 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Drakenstein, de Caep de Goede Hoop. The marriage was performed by Ds. Salomon van Echten.
NameRecord 17 October 1745, the name of Gerd Engelbrecht was written in the record as Gerrit Engelbregt.
Gerrit or Gerd Engelbrecht. He was originaly from Norden in Oos-Friesland. He also referred to himself in documents as Geurt Engelberts. There is established that there were a family in Oos-Friesland with this surname and there were persons with the same first name Gerd. The question is if the family Engelberts and the family Engelbrecht the same family.On 8 Augustus 1733 Geurt Engelberts boarded the Castricum as sailor employed by the VOC, leaving from Texel to Batavia. Almost 3 and a halve months later the ship arrived in Tablebay on 26 November 1733. During the journey Geurt got ill and could not continue the journey to Batavia. So Geurt Engelberts landed in South-Africa. He married Catharina Elizabeth DE JONGH, daughter of Krelis Cornelisz DE JONGH en Elisabeth KOBBESZ, in Paarl on 17.10.1745.
It is true that the ship Castricum left Texel for the Cape of Good Hope on 08 Aug 1733 on it's way to Batavia, Indonesia with a scheduled reprovisioning stop at the Cape. He enlisted with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the promise of eventually becoming a burgher. The ship was scheduled to anchor at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope 26 Nov 1733 (it did) and depart again for Batavia 14 Dec 1733 with arrival at final destination 03 Jul 1734. This is from his record with the VOC (Dutch East India Company). He left the ship at the Cape of Good Hope.
Texel is a Friesian Island that operated as a satellite of the Netherlands. In the 1800s it was taken over by Prussia. That is probably why people have assumed he was from there.
I found no record online of his birth in Holland, Germany, Prussia, Denmark, or Sweden. All that is online is things that people have put there with no sources, so it cannot be believed.
Of course, not every record has survived and of those that have, not every one has been transcribed and put online. When that happens, one has to search for parish records of baptisms in the area where the birth occurred.
I'm sorry there isn't any more information online. However, this is common prior to the 1800s.
There is no birth record online for him in Germany, Prussia, Holland, Sweden, or Denmark.
