Jan Jansz van Eeden, SV/PROG

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Jan Jansz van Eeden, SV/PROG

Also Known As: "Jan van Oldenburg", "Jan Jansz van Eden", "Sopie"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Utrecht, Utrecht, UT, Netherlands
Death: September 15, 1704
Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Johan von den Eeden and Josina von den Eeden
Husband of Grietjie Jansz van Eeden; Lysbeth Jansz, SM and Maria Russaar, SM/PROG
Father of Johannes van Eeden, b1; Adriaan "Arij" van Eeden; Maria Catharina Jansz Potgieter. Botha; Jacobùs Jansz van Eden; Frederik Jansz van Eeden, a2b4 and 1 other
Brother of Heinrich Von Den van Eeden, LY2C-P8G

Occupation: Ystersmid, Stellenbosch
Arrived In South Africa: 1662
Managed by: June Frances Kotzee
Last Updated:

About Jan Jansz van Eeden, SV/PROG

NO sources to prove parents

Taken from "Van Eede(n) Van Ede(n) Families 1662 - 2001, Eerste Uitgawe, Augustus 2002, D.H. van Eeden, Redakteur: Gideon de V. de Kock.
ISBN: 0-86988-791-2

1637 - 1704; van Oldenburg, Duitsland: bekend as Jan van Oldenburg, aankoms 1662 as "onderscheepskorporaal". In 1682 verstig hy hom op "Krommerivier" by Stellnbosch as smid en boer; Vryburger van Stellnbosch 1688; hy word amptelik eerste eienaar van Krommerivier in 1692 na die aankoms van die eerste landmeter, ene Mostert. Maak 'n gesamentlike testament as Jan Jantz; Sy boedel gedateer 26 Mei 1702 dui aan day hy 'n suksesvolle boer was.

i've changed the spelling of Jansz from Janse to correspond with that of his wife and children. Marie Russaar(Rossouw) married to Jan van Eeden was the sister of Pierre Rossouw and should not be mixed with his daughter whom married Retief.


  • Reference no.: MOOC8/1.80
  • Testator(s):
  • Jan Jansz: van Eden
  • 15 September 1704
  • Inventaris en taxatie der roerende en onroerend goederen, die met de doodt ontruijmd en nagelaten zijn bij den overlijden vrijborger aan het Stellenbos Jan Jansz: van Eden; nagelaten voor deselvs weduwe Maria Rossar ter eener, ende
  • 5 kinderen ten anderen zijde, genaamt Jacobus oud 10
  • Fredrik 8
  • Arij 12
  • Maria 6 en
  • Dirk van Eden oud 4 jaaren

GEDCOM Source

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Marriage:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL3-GGR
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL3-GGR

Jan Jansz Van Eeden: - WB
He and his wife, Lijsbet Jans, were apparently sent back to
Europe in March 1677 because of problems caused by her
habitual drunkenness (C.G.de Wet, below) and in the muster
roll of 1677 they are noted to be ready to leave (VC 39, p.56,
'staet te vertrecken'). He does not appear in the muster rolls
of 1678 or 1679 (there are none for 1680 and 1681) but is back
in that of 1682, working in partnership with Mattijs Greef,
another blacksmith.
(source: C.G.de Wet, Die Vryliede en Vryswartes in die Kaapse
Nedersetting 1657-1707, published 1981, page 174).

( The marriage ended in divorce in May 1684, on
grounds of her adultery.
source: C.G.de Wet, Die Vryliede en
Vryswartes in die Kaapse Nedersetting 1657-1707,
published 1981, page 175.)

See:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Eeden-71

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Jan Jansz van Eeden, SV/PROG's Timeline

1637
1637
Utrecht, Utrecht, UT, Netherlands
1638
May 27, 1638
Age 1
Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
1676
January 16, 1676
Stellenbosch, WC, South Africa
1690
April 16, 1690
Caap de Goede Hoop, Suid Afrika
1692
February 13, 1692
Overberg, Caap de Goede Hoop, South Africa
February 13, 1692
Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa
1694
November 13, 1694
Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa
1697
March 11, 1697
Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa