Jacobus Pietersz Louw

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Jan Pietersz Louw (kom in beginjare ook voor as Jan Pietersz en Jan Pietersz Broertje) van Caspel Ter Maere * Nederland c. 1628 » Bovenecarspel 29.10.1628 † 9.5.1691 x Nederland, Hubbeke REIJNIERS xx Kaap 23.8.1661 Beatrix WEIJAN van Utrecht * c. 1639 † c. 1722 a. per De Jonge Prins 15.8.1661

b5 Jacobus » 21.1.1680 † Julie 1713 x 22.1.1702 Maria VAN BRAKEL » 30.5.1677 d.v. Adriaan Willemsz van Brakel en Sara Rosendaal. Maria van Brakel xx 21.2.1723 Jan VALK van Zevenhuizen

Will - Louw, Jacob & Maria van Brakel - 4 Jul 1713, Cape Archives, MOOC 7/1/2, 22 voor het Zieke bedde van Mons: Jacob Louw geboren aan desen uijthoek oud omtrent 34 jaren, ...

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Baptism

NGK Kaapstad

Ao' 1680 Den 21 Jan. Jacobus Jan Pytters en Beatris Weimans Arriaentie Brouwersche

- NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006) on http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town...

Marriage to Maria Van Brakel (b5)

NGK Kaapstad

[1702] 22 Jan: Jacobus Louw van Cabo Jongman met Maria van Brakel van Cabo Jongd:

- Cape Town Baptisms 1695 - 1712 p 96 - 97 (56) Huwelijke 1701 - 1702

Jacobus Louw contractor for the supply of meat to the Company of The Cape born 1679, at the Cape baptized 21 January 1680, Cape Town died July 1713 will dated 4 July 1713

Notes:

When he made his will on the 4th July 1713 he was described as on his sick bed, so he presumably died not long after this, given that we know he died before 1st Aug 1713 when, in the contract drawn up between Beatrix Weijman and Maria van Brakel, the latter is described as 'the widow of the late Jacobus Louw'.

He was one of the main organisers, with his brother-in-law Adam Tas, of the petition against the corruption and opression excercised by the Governor, Willem Adriaan van der Stel, which was drawn up in early 1706 and sent to the Council of Seventeen in Amsterdam. In March and April the ringleaders were arrested and questioned.

Their tribunal, the Council of Justice, whose members had been appointed on this occasion by the Governor, consisted entirely of the people they accused in their petition.

He was summonded to the Castle on the 14th April but he refused to sign a recantation or to be questioned by the Landdrost, Starrenburg, who was usurping the office of the Independent Fiscal.

As a result he was imprisoned until 18th April when he was again examined by Starrenburg. He answered two questions, refusing any others and was returned to prison. Questioned again on 4th June, he answered a string of questions and was then asked to sign a recantation express his regret: he refused.

He was sent back to prison and did not reappear again until 1st September, when he answered more questions.

In her will dated 15th November 1721 Beatrix Weyman named among her heirs the children of her late son, Jacobus Louw, procreated with Maria van Brakel.

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b1 Pieter » 17.7.1667 † Mei 1713, boer Rondebosch x Kaapstad 29.11.1693 Elizabeth WENDELS v. Amsterdam * c. 1671 † c. 1719

c4 Jacobus » Kaapstad 16.5.1700 † Aug. 1778 x 4.10.1727 Wilhelmina VAN ZYL van Haarlem d.v. Willem van Zyl en Christina van Loveren en wed.v. Jean Durand

Note by Richard Ball - quoted from his web pages - www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/louw/1037.html

# The parents of Jacobus Louw Pietersz:

I have no direct evidence as to who his parents were, only indirect:

He is named as Jacobus Louw Pietersz: in his will dated 6th August 1777.

We know that Jacobus, the son of Pieter Jansz Louw and Elizabeth Wendels lived into adulthood because he applied to the Council of Policy on 23rd March 1723 to be granted administration of his own goods even though, aged 23, he had not yet reached the age of majority (25). On the recommendation of the Orphan Masters, this was granted to him. (Cape Archives, C. 65, pp. 45-54, TANAP)

His first child was named Petrus Johannes, after his father, and the witnesses were his eldest brother, Johannes Louw and Magdalena Wendels, presumably his late mother's sister.

(Stellenbosch baptisms page 128, 31 October 1728)

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Reference no.: MOOC8/11.22

Testator(s):

Jacobus Louw

Willemina van Zijl

14 December 1763

Inventaris van alle sodanige goederen, als zijn behoorende tot den gemeenschappelijken boedel van den landbouwer Jacobus Louw d' oude, en zijne op den 1:e der gepasseerde maand November aflijvig gewordene huijsvrouw Willemina van Zijl, dog welke goederen, 't sedert eenige jaaren herwaards, vermits de tusschen hem Louw en zijne ged:e huijsvrouw geregeert hebbende oneenigheeden, buijten eenige schriftinge ofte schijdinge des boedels, door gem:e Louw afsonderlijk bestierd geworden zijnde; thans met ende beneevens sodanige goederen, als daar en teegen door geciteerde Willemina van Zijl invoegen voorsz:e beseeten wierden, en bij sub dato 8:e der voorsz:e maand November daar van geformeerde aparten inventaris, vermelt staan, aangezien het overleijden ab intestato van meergem:e Willemina van Zijl, door haar zijn naargelaten ten voordeele van haaren bovengem:e man Jacobus Louw d' oude ter eenree mitsgaders ook de kinderen door haar in eerder huwelijk bij wijlen Jan Durand geprocreëert, ofte

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