Feitje Van der Merwe, SM

Baptised Feitje
Any sources with Sophia in it ?

Marriage 25 January 1696 : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-WS9N-B?i=241&...

Nederduitsche Hervormde Gemeente Stellenbosch

There seem to have been no children born in his [Peter Robbertsz'] marriage to Sophia van der Merwe. In the opgaaf returns for 1705, 1709 and 1712 only four daughters (no sons) are listed for them, the four daughters being, of course, the children of her first marriage.

For more arguments see my article published in Familia, no 3, 2006, page 75. C.C. de Villiers, in his Geslacht Register of the 1890s, allocated them a son, Jan Robberts. The article also suggests who his parents might in fact have been.

children of Sophia Schalk van der Merwe and Roelof Pasman

• Margareta Pasman born 1689 baptized 19 August 1689, Stellenbosch

married Claas Elberts  born circa 1675 farmer  of Stellenbosch  born circa 1675, at the Cape 

• Catharina Pasman 1691-1763 baptized 27 August 1691, Stellenbosch died 24 February 1763, Stellenbosch

married 17 September 1713 Stellenbosch Philip Morkel constable on the returning ship 'Oosterstein'

• Sibilla Pasman born 1693 baptized 9 August 1693, Stellenbosch

married (1) Jan Albert Laubster  1686-circa 1720 Heemraad of Nooitgedagt, Stellenbosch

married (2) 19 July 1722 Stellenbosch Jacob Cloete 

• Roelofphina Pasman born circa September 1695 baptized 27 September 1695, Stellenbosch

- Richard Ball on http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/burger/I480.html

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Will - Robbertsz, Pieter and Sophia Schalk van der Merwen - 1709, dated 2 May 1709, Cape Archives, 1 STB 18/3, 4 and MOOC 7/1/2, 24 dsn E. oud Pl. landdross en landbouwer aan Stellenbosch Mons: Pieter Robbertsz gebored te Neustad omtrent vier mijlen van Lubeck, ende de eersame Juffrw Sophia Schalk van der Merwe gebooren aan Cabo de Goede hoop, beijde egte luijden zijnde de voorn' Mons. Pieter Robbertz, siekelijk te bedde lggende, en voornm Juffrow. Sophia Schalk van der merwen gesond van liggam.. die testeur aan sijn suster, Truyntje Robbertz, woonagtig in Grunum naby Neustadt.voorsa: een somma van een duijsent guldens Caabse ofte Indische valuatie.. dat zij testarice .. en door de vier kinderen namentlijk, Margareta oud 20 jaren, Catrintie oud 17 jare, Sibilla oud 15 jaren en Roelofphina oud 13 jare ...

on http://www.vandermerwefamilytree.com/af/Extractaf.html

NB No son Jan mentioned. - JS

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Sy was ook bekend as "Fytjie Schalck" en was die weduwee van Rudolph Pasmann.Sy was die oudste van 13 kinders. Sophia en Peter het net een seun Jan gehad.
She married (1) RUDOLPH PASMANN, married 12 Nov 1684.
She married (2) PETER ROBBERTSZ, married 25 Jan 1696, * 1655, † C1741.

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According to the Van der Merwe Stamouers page http://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/surnames-v-z/523-van-der-merwe-w...
"According to an article in the SA Medical Magazine, it appears that the disease Huntington's Chorea, common among some Afrikaans-speaking families, comes from Sophia van der Merwe. The ancestors of more than 200 people currently suffering from this condition have been researched and everyone can being brought back to Sophia's children from her two marriages."

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bekend as Fytjie Schalk en Fytie Willem Schalks (dogter van Willem Schalk); 1980.02.11 artikel in die S.A. Mediese Tydskrif beweer dat die siektetoestand Huntingtons Chorea, wat algemeen voorkom onder sommige Afrikaanssprekende families, van haar afkomstig is. Die voorouers van meer as 200 persone wat tans aan hierdie toestand ly, (Over 200 affected individuals in more than 50 supposedly unrelated families have been found to be ancestrally related through a common progenitor in the 17th century) is nagevors en almal kan teruggevoer word tot kinders van Sophia uit haar twee huwelike. Haar broers en susters is egter glad nie betrokke nie wat kan beteken dat die siekte deur nuwe mutasie ontstaan het of dat sy 'n onegte kind was. Feit is egter dat hierdie siektetoestand vir meer as 14 generasies aan nasate van Sophia oorgedra is. Sophia kon nie haar testament teken nie terwyl haar broers en susters almal kon skryf. Dit kan moontlik toegeskryf word aan die feit dat sy Huntingtons Chorea gehad het. Sy het as weduwee van Pieter Robbertz kontrakte gesluit met die volgende persone om vir haar te werk: die seeman Jans Wolf van Tonder, die soldaat Jan Barend Schulter van Olsen, die seeman Cornelis Jacobsz Jonker van Graveland

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