Johannes Colyn

Johannes COLYN

Johannes Colijin, a son of a freed slave, ended up owning the Klein Constantia, upon marrying the widow of Johannes Jurgens Kotze which was renamed Hoop op Constantia. Johannes resumed winemaking from 1718 and began shipping around the world.

s/o Bastiaan Jansz Colijn Colyn & Maria Everts
x 1.5.1718 Elsabe van Hoff, d.v. Lammert Lourena van Hoff, van Noorweë en Margaretha, K., » 1698, wed.van J.J. Kotze;
xx 23.9.1724 Johanna Appel
owned original Klein Constantia (Hoop op Constantia), which his descendants would own until 1857

By 1685, the remarkable Swarte Maria Everts (the Cape-born daughter of Evert and Anna van Guinea) was also living with Bastiaan Colijn, with whom she would have four children, most notably Johannes Colijn, who would take up where Simon van der Stel left off, making sweet Constantia wine at the original Klein Constantia (Hoop op Constantia), which his descendants would own until 1857, completely assimilated into ‘white’ society. https://winemag.co.za/wine/opinion/joanne-gibson-on-some-of-the-inv...