Barent Lubbe

LUBBE Berend Löbe a. voor Nov. 1692 x Jacoba BRANDENBURG, niggie van Johannes van Heyningen, onderkoopman van die VOC

Name Barent Lubbe
Father's Name Barent Lubbe
Father's Sex Male
Mother's Name Jacoba Brandenburgh
Mother's Sex Female
Event Type Baptism
Event Date

5 March 1713

Event Place Stellenbosch
Not called Frederick

b1 Hendrik » Stellenbosch 3.11.1697, jonk † b2 Aletta » 14.6.1699 x Paulus KEYSER van Langensalsa, Duitsland b3 Hendrik » Stellenbosch 5.9.1700 x 20.6.1726 Catharina VAN WYK b4 Elizabeth » 6.8.1702 x Jan VORSTER. Elizabeth was ook die moeder van Elizabeth BRUYNS » Paarl 1.4.1731 en getroud op 20.3.1748 met Matthias TAUTE b5 Jan » 23.9.1703 b6 Francois » 1.1.1705 b7 Catharina » 23.5.1706 x Christiaan LIEBENBERG b8 Jacobus » 31.7.1707 b9 Gerrit » 28.10.1708 b10 Johanna » 26.1.1710 x 26.1.1710 Jan GREYLING b11 Maria Jacoba » 20.12.1711 x Jan LOOTS

b12 Barend » Stellenbosch 5.3.1713 x Paarl 19.2.1736 Martha BURGER

c1 Andries » 3.2.1737 x Tulbagh 8.2.1756 Maria Magdalena MOUTON d.v. Jacob Mouton en Magdalena Keyser c2 Barend Frederik » 4.10.1738 x 19.8.1759 Johanna Maria KEYSER c3 Willem » 2.3.1741 x 8.4.1764 Elizabeth Geertruy VAN DER MERWE (sy xx Frederik Willem Zagener) c4 Maria Jacoba » 24.2.1743 x 26.4.1761 Abraham MOUTON xx 16.9 1770 Josias ENGELBRECHT c5 Elizabeth » 21.2.1745 † voor 1782 x 25.3.1764 Gerhardus MUNNIK c6 Martha » 14.5.1747 x Johannes Paulus MOUTON c7 Johanna Catharina » 9.3.1749 x Hendrik VAN DER MERWE c8 Johannes Hendrik » Tulbagh 25.4.1751 x 18.2.1770 Elsie BURGER c9 Jacoba » Tulbagh 18.3.1753

c10 Elsie gedoop: 6 Jul 1755, getroud: Petrus van der Merwe

c11 Frans » Tulbagh 1.5.1757 x 20.4.1777 Johanna Adriana BURGER

d1 Barend Frederik » 25.10.1778 x Tulbagh 11.12.1803 Sophia Christina VAN WYK wed. v. Jacobus Cornelis Coetzee d2 Hester Helena » 26.3.1780 x Schalk Willem VAN RENSBURG d3 Schalk Willem » 7.10.1781 x 5.2.1804 Sara Johanna VAN WYK d4 Martha Dorothea » 16.2.1783 x Barend Petrus BURGER d5 Frans Jacobus » 13.8.1786 x Tulbagh 5.11.1809 Hester Johanna BURGER d6 Johanna Adriana » 9.11.1788 x huwelikshof, Tulbagh 13.7.1805 Jacobus Petrus HOUGH (Andreas-sn) d7 Maria Jacoba » 2.10.1791 x Tulbagh 5.11.1809 Schalk Willem BURGER d8 Elsie Sophia » 25.12.1793 x Tulbagh 7.4.1810 Schalk Willem Petrus BURGER d9 Anna Aletta » 25.12.1795, jonk † d10 Andries Petrus » 19.1.1800 x Tulbagh 8.10.1820 Jacoba Aletta Wilhelmina LUBBE

d11 Anna Aletta Elizabeth » 25.12.1801 x Tulbagh 4.10.1817 Willem Petrus BURGER

c12 Aletta Sophia x Alwyn Jacobus BURGER c13 Jacobus Gerhardus » 29.3.1766

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Dit blyk uit rekords van die Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa dat Barend in 1785 oorlede is Reference no.: MOOC8/19.4

Record of Christening in Dutch Reformed Church, Tulbagh, Land van Waveren on 6 May 1748:

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get: Hendrik Coenraad Viet en Barbara Krugel

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Hendrik, the eldest son of Johannes, on 22nd March, 1744 was granted the farm Rietfontyn, situated beyond the Sneeuwberg (between the towns Graaff-Reinet and Cradock), where his uncle Pieter was farming on a neighbouring farm, Geduld. Although he acquired further farms in this area in the years 1775 and 1784, his family remained in the "Land van Waveren" until he took them to the eastern frontier in 1790 or 1791.

Hendrik was a Heemraad of Graaff-Reinet until 1795. A number of Hendrik's descendants distinguished themselves in various fields. His grandson Jacobus Johannes (born 14 March, 1800) was one of the first Magistrates to be appointed by Lord Charles Somerset. He married the sister of Sir Andries Stockenström. After several years on the Government offices at Graaff-Reinet, he was, at the age of 24 transferred to Somerset East as Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate and from 1830 to 1860 held a similar position at Beaufort West. Stephanus Jacobus (born 19th February 1819) a great-grandson of Hendrik, left Graaff-Reinet in about 1862 to settle in the Transvaal as an Attorney, and later as Advocate of the Supreme Court. He purchased the farm Arcadia, which he divided into erven. The hill on the farm, "Meintjeskop", was named after him. Jacobus Johannes (born 23rd December, 1810) was elected member of the Cape Legislative Assembly during 1854 in the first 4 elections after the grant of Representative Government to the Cape. His cousin, Johannes Jacobus (born 18th May, 1830) was the first Registrar of the Transvaal and was appointed as such in 1866. Another descendant, Stephanus Jacobus (born 11th January, 1840) made history by being the first member of the Family to become a medical practitioner. He practised at Aberdeen, Willowmore, Adelaide and Uitenhage. Another distinguished descendant was Laurens (born 9th June, 1868), who on 15th August, 1893 won the World Championship in cycle racing in Chicago.

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Barend Lubbe arrived at the Olifants River an orphaned young man with a disabled older brother and limited local connections. A half century later, he headed a large, prosperous family firmly entrenched in the Cedarberg. In addition to whatever means he used to claim land and coerce labor, Barend Lubbe had some lucky breaks come his way, including a government appointment and an advantageous marriage, enabling him to establish the basis of expanding settler claims on the frontier.

10The youngest of 12 children, Barend was only 11 years old when his father died. Three of his brothers had died young, before their parents. Barend's two eldest sisters were already married in 1723; their husbands were the family's official witnesses to the inventory and subsequent auction of livestock, farm implements, housewares, and a single slave that marked the dissolution of the Lubbe household at Wolvedans.5 The inventory stipulated that the four surviving boys and Catharina, the eldest unmarried girl, had livestock of their own among the beasts on the farm; those animals were not sold at auction (with the exception of young Barend's horse, which was sold for him with the proceeds kept separate from the estate). So the Lubbes were not destitute, but even with the livestock set aside and the settlement from the auction proceeds, none of the nine children inherited resources enough to support themselves individually.

Young Barend, it seems, went to live with his sister Aletta and her husband Paul Keyser at their farm, Welgelegen, near Stellenbosch.6 The couple had four small children by this time; they incorporated care for their growing brood with support for Aletta's siblings, all still living near Stellenbosch (Paul and Aletta would go on to raise 13 children, not counting their contribution to Barend and his sisters). Brothers Jan and Frans both died young and unmarried three years after their parents.7 Again, Paul Keyser was called to witness the paperwork settling their estates. Brother Hendrik married that year, the daughter of a local farming family. The Lubbe siblings remained in close contact and saw multiple endogamous marriages among their own children, but they chose diverse spouses for themselves. The three younger girls, like their older sisters, went on to marry immigrant men.

12Both Johanna and Maria Jacoba married at 17, leaving only Barend as a minor dependent five years after their father's death. Though living with family members, Barend was officially a ward of the Orphan Chamber, meaning he was not legally empowered to make his own financial decisions. As a young man of twenty, ten years after his father's death, Barend Lubbe requested legal majority.8 Before Barend applied for veniam aetatis, however, his older brother Hendrik became a ward of the Stellenbosch church. In 1730, the church council approved an annual stipend for Hendrik because he was blind in both eyes. Brother-in-law Christian Liebenberg also contributed to his maintenance, but the church saw need great enough that it designated Hendrik for an allowance normally given only to the elderly.9 Despite this network of support—or perhaps because the only prospect for real financial independence lay beyond the embrace of his family—Barend Lubbe left Stellenbosch for the Olifants River. There he was appointed caretaker of the Company's post at the Warm Baths (a natural hot springs) near the river, and by the time of the 1739 frontier war, Lubbe was the veldkorporal for the Olifants River.10

13Part of Lubbe's acclimatization to the Cedarberg certainly came with his marriage to Andries Burger's eldest daughter, Martha. Their courtship is buried, but evidence of Martha and Barend's marriage is clear: 13 children, 12 guided to adulthood. Martha had the first three children—all boys—between 1737 and 1741, a period that encompassed intense violence. Barend served then as veldkorporal; many of their Olifants River neighbors, as well as farmers near the Twenty-four Rivers and in the Land van Waveren asked for relief from land-rent payments in 1739 because the hostilities made their frontier farms uninhabitable. Barend, Martha, and their babies survived the tempest and went on to flourish.