Hans de Beer, SV/PROG

He died between 9 April 1679 and 19 August 1679 Mauritius. The death mysteriously occurred during his interrogation about a conspiracy said to also involve his concubine Iba van Timor and her family, company slaves and exiled convicts to overthrow the colony, massacre it officials and escape

https://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g14/p14013.htm

Circa 1677 Hans Beer was the concubine of Iba van Timor

Daughter Willemina of Iba van Timor very possibly his child but nothing confirmed . Deducted from Hans de Beer being the commom law husband of Iba van Timor 1677 tiil his death 1679.

What about daughter Catharina ?

Stamvader Barend Pieterse BLOM came to South Africa from Wegenau. In 1707 we find him living on the farm 'Groendal' now in the Wellington district. In 1691 he married Catharina de BERAULT who was baptised on 5 November 1684 daughter of stamvader Louis de Berault from France and Catharina van de Kaap. The couple had three children:

b1 Agatha baptised 20 November 1695 Kaapstad, X 19 November 1713 Lucas Meyer
b2 Pier Barend baptised 29 April 1699, X Maria Jacobs
b3 Geertruy, X Pieter Booyens

He received the farm Groendal on 28 Feb 1699.

Some published sources wrongly gives her baptism as 5 November 1784. This baptism entry was that of Catharina daughter of Kees de Boer also known Cornelis Claesz from Utrecht.

Sources:
de Villiers and Pama, Genealogies of old S A Families
JA Heese and RTJ Lombard, South African Genealogies
JG le Roux en WG le Roux Bovlei in Ons Drakensteinse Erfgrond

Thanks to research by:

Thanks to submission by:
Mark Barker mabarker@mweb.co.za
AM van Rensburg

NOTE: added by Demornay du Toit, 3 February 2009

There is an article by Mansell Upham ("The Soetkoek Syndrome", written in 2001 and reproduced in a posting in the RootsWeb BUITENPOSTEN mailing list in February 2005), in which he concludes that the wife of Barend Pieterse Blom was one Catharina de Beer, origin unknown, and not a daughter of Louis de Berault and Catharina van de Kaap. The article explains in some detail how a "mythology" developed around the subject, but there is a simple alternative to disprove Louis de Berault's connection with Catharina "de Berault": Catharina was baptised in Cape Town in November 1684, and Louis de Berault did not arrive at the Cape until nearly four years later, on the Zuid-Beveland on 19th August 1688, along with his sister Anne and her husband Rev Paul Simond (I cannot find a primary source for this - perhaps someone can oblige - but I do not believe it is disputed).