Johann Christoffel Christoph Heymers

HEYMERS JOHANN CHRISTOPH. - Bleckede. So. 1767, corp. 1768, sergt. 1771, acting substitute-landdrost of Swellendaln 1772. ~ 20.12.1772 Aletta van Rooyen, wid. Johannes Potgieter (Marr. Reg. of Paarl). In 1774 he was sentenced to hard labour for life, because he had ill-treated the despatch-rider, Gottfried Heye, so severely that he died. In 1781 he escaped from Robben Island and joined the enemy forces. (GMR 1767-71; CJ 47, p. 41; CJ 3318 list 34.)

- Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946)