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Douwe Steyn

Also Known As: "Steijn", "Stijn", "Stein"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Caap de Goede Hoop, South Africa
Death: circa 1777 (63-72)
South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Jacobus Steyn and Maria Steyn
Brother of Maria Steyn, b1c1 SM; Hermanus d'Oude Steyn; Sibella Steyn, b1c4; Emerentia Steyn; Jacobus Steyn, b1c6 and 5 others

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About Douwe Steyn

Requested permission to open a bakery in 1755. According to Muir, his widow is buried at Somerset West. She died on 2.1.1773 at the age of 86

  • Name: Douwe Steijn
  • Event Type: Baptism
  • Event Date: 27 Jan 1709
  • Event Place: Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
  • Father's Name: Jacobus Steijn
  • Mother's Name: Maria Potgieter
  • Baptism
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Douwe Steyn's Timeline

1709
January 20, 1709
Caap de Goede Hoop, South Africa

Baptismal record below makes calculation of date of birth possible.

27 d:o (Jan)
van Jacobus Steijn, en Maria Potgieter;
de getuigen Gerrit Roomont, en Anna Steijn.
- Douwe

Transcription by Richard Ball and Corney Keller. Source http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town...

Photo "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DZN4-WKY?cc=1478678&am...... : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town > image 75 of 84; State Archives, Cape Province.

January 27, 1709
Caap de Goede Hoop, South Africa

27 d:o (Jan)
van Jacobus Steijn, en Maria Potgieter;
de getuigen Gerrit Roomont, en Anna Steijn.
- Douwe

Transcription by Richard Ball and Corney Keller. Source http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town...

Photo "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DZN4-WKY?cc=1478678&am... : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town > image 75 of 84; State Archives, Cape Province.

1777
1777
Age 67
South Africa