Cornelis Knoetzen, SV/PROG 1

1702 earlest valid sources surname Coetzen
1704 surname Corsel
1706 surname Corsel
1708 surname Coetselaar
1711 Cnorste

Name on Inventory 1716 is Koensen

Name given on Baptism Record of daughter Maria (b. 1708) is Cornelis Coetselaar not Koersen or Knoetzen.

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• Reference no.: MOOC8/3.22
• Testator(s):
• Cornelis Koersen
• 2 Junij 1716
• A: Cranendonk
• Inventaris en taxatie den goederen naargelaten en met er dood ontruijmt bij wijlen den landbouwer Cornelis Koersen ten voordeelen van desselfs naargelatene huijsvrouw Dirckje Helmes ter eenre, en desselfs aght minderjarige kinderen ter andere zijde
• Een opstal gelegen omtrent de Bergh rivier 300:--
• 30 beesten soo groot als kleijn a 5 rd:s 450:--
• 5 paarden a 3rd:s 't stuck 45:--
• 1 oude ossewagen 18:--
• 1 ploeg en eg 36:--
• 1 graaf en 1 schop 3:--
• 1 snaphaan en 1 deegen 18:--
• 4 ysere potten 18:--
• 5 tinne schotels 12:--
• 16 tinne borden 12:--
• 2 tinne kommen
• 6 tinne lepels
• 2 tafels 12:--
• 5 stoelen
• 3 racken
• 2 oude kisten 12:--
• 1 spiegel
• 3 emmers 12:--
• 1 karn
• 1 schepel
• 3 kadels 60:--
• 3 bultsakken
• 3 combaarsen
• 8 kussens
• een wijnige linne goed
• Somma 996:--
• Lasten des boedels
• ƒ ƒ
• aan Nicolaas Gockelius volgens obligatie 500:--
• aan Gerrit Basson 240:--
• aan Clijnvelt 133:10
• aan Pieter Rollof 36:--
• 909:10
• Rest ƒ86:10
• Aldus geinventariseert, getaxeert ende ter Weeskaamer overgegeven onder presentatie van eeden van niets ter quader trouwe agtergehouden, verswegen ofte veralieneert te hebben aan Cabo de Goede Hoop desen 2 Junij 1716.
• Dit is + 't merk van Dirckje Helmes

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:

"Hier word verwys na Cornelis Knoetzen van Fühnen, Denemarke. Cornelis en Dirkje Helms se trou datum is onbekend. Geertruy =11.11.1697, Drakenstein, was hulle oudste kind, dus was dit voor hierdie datum. sy vrou Dirkje (= 18.1.1682) was d/v Hans Helm en Geertruy Willems."

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Some researchers have attributed as 2nd name, Hendrik, - does anyone have a source for this information?

Cornelis KNOETZEN van Fuhnen (Fyn), Denemarke x Dirkje HELM(ES) sy was gedoop 18 Januarie 1682, dogter van Hans Helm & Geertruy WILLEMSE

8 Kinders

b1 Johannes = 07.05.1692 (hierdie datum is verdag want die Paarl se doopboek is verlore)x Catharina GROBBELAAR

b2 Gertruida = 11.11.1697

b3 Catharina = 12.07.1704

b3 Geertruy = 11.07.1706 x 1715 Johann GROBBELAAR, xx 3 Jun 1736 Jan Jurgen Herman

b4 Maria (Knudsen) = Nov 1708 x Aug 1731 Balthasar ROELOFS, xx Conrad Wansenberg

b5 Elisabeth * 25.05.1711 = 00.07.1711 x 07.08.1740 Nicolaas PILJE (Pillier)

b6 Aletta (Alida) = 20.08.1713 x 22.05.1735 Claas(z) CLAASEN (Claasz)

b7 Wilhelmina = 09.02.1716 x 1733 Jan (Johan) NIEUWENHUYS

b8 Gerrit * 1718 x Anna Maria MINNIE

Bronne:

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Provided by Kevin Oram:

The founder of the family in South Africa was Cornelis/Cornelius Knudsen, (born ca 1660, Fyn (Funen), Denmark; died 1718, Cape Town). He came to the Cape from Denmark in 1691. He married Dirkje Helm (born 1681 at Cape Town, baptised at Cape Town on 18 January 1682 and died 1761, also at Cape Town). She was the daughter of Hans and Geertruij Helm, both of Vollenhove, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Netherlands who arrived in the Cape in 1671.

The eighth child of Cornelis and Dirkje Knudsen’s marriage was Gerrit Knudsen (“The Elder”). Some records suggest he was born ca 1718. This cannot be correct as his father Cornelis appears to have died before 2 June 1716). Other sources suggest Gerrit was born ca 1714 at the Cape. It is possible Gerrit The Elder was born just after his father’s death ca June 1716. Dirkje remarried 4 times in her remarkably long life for the times (81 years), with children from the Knudsen and one other marriage.
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https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/101426/I206901/cornelis-knoetzen/indi...

See pg 84 https://slaegtsbibliotek.dk/900570.pdf (slow download)

KNOESEN (KNOETZEN): Betekenis: Seun van Knoet of Knud, ‘n voornaam van Deense konings.
Stamvaders: (1) Cornelis Knoetzen of Knoetse, van die eiland Fyn of Fünen (Denemarke). Trou ca. 1691 met Dirkje Helm(es) (8 kinders). (2) Thomas Knoetsen, van “Frosuum” op dieselfde Deense eiland. Kom in 1769 hier aan. Trou 25.6.1775 met Maria Jacoba Grundlingh (8 kinders).

CREST: Wapen: Volgens ‘n lakafdruk in die Kaapse Argief gedateer Paarl 8.9.1764 seel “Dirkje Knoetzen, weduwe van Frederik Spamann”, met die wapen: ‘n omkykende man op sy perd. Of sy egter met haar eie seel stempel (Knoetzen) of die van haar oorlede man (Spamann) geseel het, kan nie vasgestel word nie.

SOURCE: Stamregister van die S.A. Volk; Ref KNOETSEN; Page 114. S.A. Genealogies; Vol 4; Ref KNOETZEN; Page 348; Entry a1. Downloaded from FamilySearch Ancestral File in terms of the AFN code. NOTES: This family line started in S.A. from him. His surname is also recorded as "KNUDSEN"