Catharina Wagenmakers, SM

Catharina Wagenmakers born in bondage; owned by the VOC. Emancipated

• PARENTS UNKNOWN --- Zeeckere mestisse off halffslagh meijt genaemt Catrina, dogh een Comps. slavin bij een Europiaen alhier geprocureert, mi[t]sgaders door het hoogwerdig[e] sacrament van den H. doop d' gemeente Christi in geleijft, mi[t]sgaders in de Christelijcke religie onderwesen en nu een competente ouderdom bereijckt hebbende en tot nogh toe als een dienstbare bij d' Compe. gebruijckt, bij requeste aen dese vergaderingh versocht hebbende dat sij om de vooren geallegeerde reden, mitsgaders uijt crachte van haer vrijdom die haar van haar vaderskant wettelijck toequam, in vrydom mocht werden gestelt, en van haar dienstbaarheijt ontslagen, soo is goet gevonden haar in vrijdom te stellen om haar als een vrij vrouw te moogen erneeren

From this her father was very likely from Europe -- A Wagonmaker/Wagenmaker ?

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• Willem van de Caep 19 Feb 1679

xx 21 Mar 1683 Andries Beyers (c 1650 -1700)

• *Elisabeth Beijers 10 Oct 1683
• *Maria Beijers 19 Dec 1683
• *Johannes Jurgen Beyers< 2 Sep 1685
• *Christoffel Beijers <19 Sep 1687
• *Margaretha Beijers 26 Feb 1690
• *Zùsanna Beijers <20 Jul 1692 -<12 May 1696
• *Zùsanna Beijer <12 May 1696

See First Fifty Years Project http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6858.htm

On 19 February 1679 she was a slave owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) and 13 March 1680 was emancipated by resolution of the Council of Policy at a meeting convened by Simon van der Stel.

http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/make_pdf.cfm?output=pdf&id=MOOC8/1.59

Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa

• Reference no.: MOOC8/1.59
• Catharijn Andries Beijer
• 5 December 1700

Inventaris der goederen van de overleeden vrijman met sijn huijsvrouw Andries Beijer, en Catharijn, soo als

desselve van haar twee schoonsoons Jan Harmensz: van Paterborn en Christoffel Esterhuijs sijn opgegeven, namentlijk

Name

21 March 1683: the name of Catharina Wagenmakers was written in the record as Catharina van de Caep.[1] 20 July 1692: the name of Catharina Wagenmakers was written in the record as Catrina van de Caap.[1]

Birth: Catarina Wagenmakers was born about 1658. [2][3][4] Place: Cape of Good Hope [4] Baptism: Baptism-Candidate Catharina Wagenmakers may be the individual who was baptized on 8 October 1662 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was performed by Nathaniel de Paep. [5] Mother

Slave / wagonmaker [1] English (Events)

Slave VOC* Catharina Wagenmakers was born in bondage and was owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape., circa 1658 de Caep de Goede Hoop Catharina Wagenmakers.[1]

Slave VOC* On 19 February 1679 was a slave owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.[1]

Slave Emancipation* On 13 March 1680 de Caep de Goede Hoop Catharina Wagenmakers, a company owned slave, was emancipated by resolution of the Council of Policy at a meeting convened by Commandeur Simonvan der Stel, at which Henrik Crudop, Tobias Vlasvat, Jeronimus Cruse and Edele Andrijs de Man were present.

Mrt 6, 1707 "Hendrik Biebouw / Bibault ... son of surgeon Detlev Biebow (from Mecklenburg) & immigrant orphan girl Willemintje Ariens: de Wit (from Rotterdam) - shipped out with 7 other orphan girls on the ship China (1688) ... step-son of Stellenbosch deacon Jacob Pleunis (from Orsoy [Rheinburg]%29 ... his biological father & step-father both sire illegitimate children {Susanna} by Malagasy slave women Susanna [ed. This is actually Diana van Madagascar - see: http://e-family.co.za/ffy/exhibits/timeline-diana.pdf [Delia Robertson] [6][7]] & Lijsje van Madagascar respectively] … who goes on a rampage (1707) with his 3 unmarried cohorts - coinciding with free-burgher Adam Tas et al agitation against Willem Adriaan van der Stel's governership & cronyism - assaulting the miller at Stellenbosch, Sebastian Schroeder (from Schledehausen near Osnabrück) thereby gaining latter-day notoriety & commemoration for uttering contumaciously to interceding Landdrost Johannes Starrenberg: "ik wil niet loopen, ’k ben een Africaander al slaat die landrost myn dood, of al setten hij mijn in den tronk. Ik sal, nog wil niet swygen" ... which quote (since 1928 & subsequently) - arguably - is generally taken out of context, politically reconstructed & claimed to represent the beginnings of latter-day "Afrikaner" identity ... … his friends in crime are: • Hans Beijer - son of former brothelkeeper Catharijn Wagenmakers: van de Caep • Jan Cloete - grandson of murdered cattle rustler Jacob Cloete (from Cologne) & youngest son of intrepid hunter & Drakenstein ensign Gerrit Cloete (from Cologne) who farmed at "Idas valley", Stellenbosch & "Allesverloren", Riebeeck Kasteel whose older brother Jacob Cloete (1675-1713) mercilessly (fatally?) beats up (1696) 'stamvader' Jan Smit (from Maastrict [Limburg]) – aided & abetted by another Cape-born youngster Jan Harmensz: Potgieter (1674-1733) “saying that a Cape-born man should not give way to a fellow from the fatherland” (seggende 't is niet te dulden dat een Caaps kindt voor een vaaderlandts keerel souden moeten swigten ...); and • Matthijs Greeff - son of Stellenbosch heemraad Matthias Greeff (from Magdeburg) & Cape-born Susanna Claassens & step-grandson of Robben Island-banished bully, wife-beater & slave killer Jacob Artzen / Aertzen / Ertzen / Hertsz / Aartsz: Brouwer (from Tiel [Gelderland])." [8]

Marriage ao' 1683 Den 21 Mart. Andries Baieck jonghman baes wagenmaker van de Ed. Comp. en Catarina geboren aen de Caep de Boa Sperance[9] Event date: 21 March 1683[10] Event place: Cape Town, Dutch Reformed Church[10] Groom: Andries Baieck[10] Bride: Catarina geboren aen de Caep[10] Family 1: There is no evidence that she was ever in a relationship with Ernst Friedrich Walter, who became a vrijburger on 31 January 1688 (after having arrived on 25 April 1687) and died in 1697 at Drakenstein.[1][11] Child: Willem van de Caep b. 19 Feb 1679 Family 2: Andries Beijers b. c 1650, d. 1700 [12] Children: Elisabeth Beijers b. 10 Oct 1683 Maria Beijers b. 19 Dec 1683 Johannes Jurgen Beyers b. b 2 Sep 1685 Christoffel Beijers b. b 19 Sep 1687 Margaretha Beijers b. 26 Feb 1690 Zùsanna Beijers b. b 20 Jul 1692, d. b 12 May 1696 Zùsanna Beijer b. b 12 May 1696 Death

Date: BEF 5 DEC 1700 [13] She and Andries Beijer both died c. November 1700 [14] Sources

WikiTree profile Van De Kaap-9 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper. User ID: 9F101D0D99B1E7408AC85B2E214E3DCB9CAF Prior to import, this record was last changed 3 Feb 2010. Wikitree profile Van de Caep-4 was created through the import of WatkinsTrollip family tree.ged on May 15, 2014 by Wendy Schoeman. User ID: 53736AE033CE570E90016760A2F153D8 : Record ID Number: MH:I208 Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added by Wendy Schoeman May 15, 2014. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added by Wendy Schoeman May 15, 2014. ↑ Robertson, Delia.The First Fifty Years Project http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added May 13, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn. Resolutions of the Council of Policy of the Cape of Good Hope, 2 to 15 March 1680, C.14, 121-154, C., 1652-1795, TANAP (www.tanap.net), Date of birth is estimated based on the policy that female slaves with European fathers were entitled to emancipation at age 22 and Catarina sought and was granted empancipation on 13 March 1680, viz: Zeeckere mestisse off halffslagh meijt genaemt Catrina, dogh een Comps. slavin bij een Europiaen alhier geprocureert, mi[t]sgaders door het hoogwerdig[e] sacrament van den H. doop d' gemeente Christi in geleijft, mi[t]sgaders in de Christelijcke religie onderwesen en nu een competente ouderdom bereijckt hebbende en tot nogh toe als een dienstbare bij d' Compe. gebruijckt, bij requeste aen dese vergaderingh versocht hebbende dat sij om de vooren geallegeerde reden, mitsgaders uijt crachte van haer vrijdom die haar van haar vaderskant wettelijck toequam, in vrydom mocht werden gestelt, en van haar dienstbaarheijt ontslagen, soo is goet gevonden haar in vrijdom te stellen om haar als een vrij vrouw te moogen erneeren ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Alta Bekker, Wednesday, December 10, 2014. ↑ 4.0 4.1 May 15, 2014 by Wendy Schoeman. ↑ Source: Robertson, Delia.The First Fifty Years Project http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers: NGK Baptism Records Cape Town 1652 to 1655: [1662] Den selffden d:o (8 October) heeft dom:e De Paep des namiddachs een danckseggingh predikatie gedaen, ende ge-doopt dese vier navolgende kinderen, een van Heindrick Heindricksz van Suerewaerden vrij-burger, sijnde tegenwoordigh regerende bur-ger raet, en is genaemt Elsje, de getuigen sijn de ouders selve, ende een van den baes hove[-] nier, Jacob Hubrechtse Roosendael, dat na sijn overlijden geboren is, en is genaemt Machteltj[e] de getuijgen sijn Frans Gerritsz vanden Uijthoorn vrij lantbouwer, ende sijn huisvrou Neeltje Jacobs van Roosendael, de andere twee sijn onechte kinderen van slavinne, geboren, waer van het eene genaemt is, Cathalina, ende het ander Marij, Godt de Heere geeft dat dese gedoopte kinderen tot sijne naeme eere mo-gen opwassen., (1652 to 1655), eGSSA - van der Stael Letters, http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/classis-amsterdam/…. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Records Cape Town 1652 to 1655. ↑ Source: First Fifity Years - collating Cape of Good Hope records Community Page: Feb 23, 2016 at 5:53 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Feb 23, 2016. ↑ Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Diana van Madagascar Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Feb 23, 2016. ↑ First Fifty Years Project Mansell Upham, May 28, 2015. ↑ The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town... page 83) : accessed 13 May 2015.This transcription has been made from photographs of the Cape Archives Verbatim copies document VC 603 - Cape Town baptisms, memberships and marriages 1665-1695, which is a photocopy the original register, now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1-1/1. This photocopy was made for the Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a copy was donated to the South African Archives, a copy going to the Cape Town Repository (VC series) and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series).The marriages cover pages 75 through 91 of this register. Seen and added May 13, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 May 13, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn ↑ Source: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added by Wendy Schoeman May 15, 2014. "In this regard the following quote from Anna Böeseken's book Slaves and Freeblacks at the Cape 1658-1700' is of interest: "When a soldier, Jan Rutter from 's Heerenberg, had intercourse with Catrijn from the Cape, a slave belonging to the widow of Elbert Diemer, they were both punished because they had transgressed and broken the law of the land. The fiscal demanded the confiscation of a year's salary from the soldier Jan Rutter, but the sentence was reduced and he had to forgo his pay for one month only. The slave woman, who had been sentenced to be flogged and to work in chains for six months, was allowed postponement of the sentence, so that the accusation that she was the mistress of Ernst Frederick Walter could be investigated." (1690). ↑ Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added by Wendy Schoeman May 15, 2014. Lorna Newcomb and Ockert Malan, compilers, Annale van Nederduits Gereformeerde Moedergemeente Stellenbosch No 1.., CD-ROM (Stellenbosch) Die Genootskap vir die Kerkversameling, 2004 0-9584832-1-3), Baptism Register, Lorna: Andries kom in die Kaap aan as soldaat in Feb. 1672 op 't Schip 't Wapen van ter Gouw'; Op 21.3.1683 trou "Andries Baieck jongman baes wagenmaker van de Ed. Comp. en Catarina, geboren aen de Caep de boa Esperance". Sy het haar vryheid van die Kompanjie versoek omdat sy bij een Europiaen alhier geprocureert' was, die 'competente' ouderdom bereik het en onderrig in godsdiens ontvang het (Res v PolRd 2 van 24.5.1680 [13.3.1680]). Hy het op Weltevreden 'agter de Bottelarij' geboer. ↑ Source: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added by Wendy Schoeman May 15, 2014. Monsterrol van de vrije luijden 1688, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa >p 82 "Andries Baijer en Catharina van de Caab" [children not indicated in this muster roll] Monsterrol 1695 't District Stellenbosch >p 142 'Andries Beijer & Catarina van de Caab [6] k.' Monsterrol 1695 't District Drakenstein >p 147 'Ernst Walter & Mari van de Caab 1 k.' ↑ Source: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Wagenmakers Seen and added by Wendy Schoeman May 15, 2014.

Inventaris der goederen van de overleeden vrijman met sijn huijsvrouw Andries Beijer, en Catharijn, soo als desselve van haar twee schoonsoons Jan Harmensz: van Paterborn en Christoffel Esterhuijs sijn opgegeven ... den 5:en December a:o 1700.

Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference no.: MOOC8/1.59 and >Verkoping der goederen die op den 23:en Xb:r a:o 1700 van Andries Baijen, en sijn overleden huijsvrouw Catharijn (:Swartin:) bij de Weeskamer sijn verkogt, te weeten ... Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference no.: MOOC10/1.15.