Johannes Hendrik Cloete

Source: Genealogies-of-old-South African-families

17 August 1687 baptism of Johannes Cloete Son of Gerrit Jacobsen Cloete (from Oedt in the Electorate of Cologne) & Catharina Harmans: (from Middelburg) - also found (when baptising her children) as Catharina Jans: & (at the time of her death & drawing up of her inventory) as Catherina Loodewijks: Den 17 dito (Augusti) is een kint gedoopt en genaamt Johannes waar van de vader was Gerrit Kloeten, de moeder Catarina Jans. de getuijgen Jan van Brienen, ende de moeder zelfs. Grandson of murdered cattle rustler Corporal Jacob Cloete (from Cologne) His older brother Jacob Cloete mercilessly (fatally?) beats up (1696) stamvader Jan Smit (from Maastrict [Limburg]%29 – aided & abetted by another Cape-born youngster Jan Harmensz: Potgieter (1674-1733) saying "that a Cape-born man should not give way to a fellow from the fatherland” ('t is niet te dulden dat een Caaps kindt voor een vaaderlandts keerel souden moeten swigten ...) ... Juvenile delinquent Johannes Cloete goes on a rampage (1707) at Stellenbosch with 3 other still unmarried cohorts – coinciding with free-burgher Adam Tas et al agitation against W.A. van der Stels governership & cronyism - assaulting the miller, Sebastian Schroeder (from Schledchausen), with his fellow trouble-maker Hendrik Biebow which last-mentioned gains latter-day notoriety & commemoration for uttering contumaciously to interceding Landdrost Johannes Starrenberg: "ik wil niet loopen, ’k ben een Africaander al slaat die landrost myn dood, of al setten hij mijn in den tronk. Ik sal, nog wil niet swygen" ... which quote arguably is – since 1928 & subsequently – generally taken out of context, politically reconstructed & claimed to represent the beginnings of latter-day Afrikaner identity … His boys-to-men-friends in crime are: • Hendrik Biebouw / Bibault son of surgeon Detlev Biebow (from Mecklenburg) & immigrant orphan girl Willemintje Ariens: de Wit (from Rotterdam) - shipped out with other orphan girls on the ship “[Berg] China” (1688); step-son of Stellenbosch deacon Jacob Pleunis (from Orsoy [Rheinburg]) ... his father & step-father both father illegitimate children by Malagasy slave women [Susanna van Madagascar & Lijsje van Madagascar, respectively] … • Hans Beijer - son of former brothel keeper Catharijn Wagenmakers: van de Caep; • Matthijs Greeff - son of Stellenbosch heemraad Matthias Greeff (from Magdeburg) & Cape-born Susanna Claassens & step-grandson of Robben Island-banished bully, wife-beater & slave killer Jacob Artzen / Aertzen / Ertzen / Hertsz / Aartsz: Brouwer (from Tiel [Gelderland]). Mansell Upham