Johanna Catharina Tol SM/PROG - Hendrik Fortman & Caatje Hottentotin /Johanna Catharina Mauritz Marriage Banns 1754 - 8 years after baptising their 4 children and 2 years after baptising their 5th child

I have posted t the MEDIA section, conclusive proof that Hendrik Fortman aka Voortman's wife Johanna Catharina Mauritz aka Caatje Hottentotin is the mother of Susanna and Anna Maria Bapt Feb 1747, Jan and Hendrik bapt March 1747, These four children are clearly being baptised long after they were born, so these are not their birth dates. There is no record of their birthdates. Geesje was baptised in 1752. And then Anna Catharina in 1756, two years before and two years after the marriage between Hendrik and Johanna Catharina.

There is no evidence to suggest that Johanna Catharina is "Johanna Tol" born in 1700, nor "Tol Smit" as some records have it. All of the documentation available does not use "Voortman" - all use "Fortman".There is also no evidence as to where the name "Mauritz or Maurits" originates as it appears only when written in the marriage register in 1754 and on the baptism certificate of Anna Catharina.

There is no evidence of when she was born nor when the name "Mauritz" first came into use. There is evidence that Caatje Hottentotin and Catharina Mauritz Hottentotin is the same person, as per the baptism record of the child born after she married Henrik Fortman - Anna Catharina.

Four years after formally marrying Hendrik Fortman, Johanna Catharina is noted as the widow of Hendrik Fortman when she married Michiel Hofman in 1758.

I have loaded the various digitised copies of the documents under media.

"South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KTB-3B1L )