Johannes Hendrikus Munnik

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Jan, wat na sy oupa Munnik vernoem is, is op 13 April 1738 in die teenwoordigheid van sy oupa en ouma aan moederskant, Jan de Waal en Elizabeth van Eck, gedoop.22 Op 22 Februarie 1761, toe hy 22 jaar oud was, trou het met Johanna Maria Willems Sybers (≈9 November 1738 – ?).

Hulle het saam sewe kinders gehad. Hulle was Jacoba Cornelia (≈14 Februarie 1762 – ?), Jan Willem (≈8 Julie 1764 – ?), Jan Hendrik (≈8 September 1765 – 1803), Alida Wilhelmina (≈10 Oktober 1767), Willem Cornelis (≈9 Oktober 1768), Jacobus Albertus (≈28 April 1770) en Catharina Maria (*10 Januarie 1772, ≈19 Januarie 1772, †1 Januarie 1853; eers op 31 Maart 1817 getroud met Willem Jan Klerck (1766, Sadras Patnam, Indië – 1839, Kaapstad).1,3,23,24

Na sy eerste vrou se afsterwe hertrou Jan Hendrik Munnik op 10 November 1782 met die weduwee, Maria Carolina Nell (née Priscelius) (1749 – ?).

Uit hul huwelik is Johannes Gerhardus (≈10 Augustus 1783 – ?, later getroud met Elizabeth Maria Hurter), Jan Frederi(c)k (≈29 Augustus 1784 – 13 Augustus 1857, Worchester), Maria Christina (≈16 Oktober 1785 – 1859, Arnhem, Nederland), Maria Carolina (≈17 Desember 1786 – 29 Desember 1867, Kaapstad) en Johannes Hendricus (≈25 Mei 1788 – 2 November 1836) gebore.1,3,23

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a. Reize in de binnen-landen van Zuid-Africa(1965)–W.B.E. Paravicini di Capelli

b. Journal of a journey to the Saldanha and St Helena bays in the month of may, 1804

ON THE SEVENTEENTH MAY the GOVERNOR, accompanied by his Aide de Camp (W.B.E. Paravicini di Capelli) besides Mr. Hendrik Cloete of Groot Constantia and the young gentleman Jacob van Reenen (eldest son of Johannes Gysbertus), rode at day-break from the capital and breakfasted at Rietvallei before continuing in cloudy weather along the sandy road.

We passed the turn-off leading to the right to the Koebergen and left through the valley of Blaauwberg and the Blaauwberg, which was obscured by the mist. Taking the left-hand road of three that branch off, we came to (De Kleine) Olifants Kop, a farm belonging to (Johannes Hendrik) Munnik Riding from here past the Olifants Kop we struck the road by which we had come, at the farm of Jan Munnik, arriving at Riet Vallei by eleven o'clock.

By 1728, Rietvallei, situated on the east side of the Dwars River, had been given as a loan farm to Willem van Heerden. In 1832 this farm was transferred to George Sebastiaan Wolfaardt and, after his death, to his son. In 1854 Jan Hendrik Munnik, a notary and businessman from Worcester, visited Ceres. Here he found relief from his asthma and bought a part of the farm from Wolfaardt jr. He divided this into plots, thus establishing a village settlement on the east banks of the Dwars River. The opening of Mitchell’s Pass in 1848 led to the establishment of plots on the west bank. About 1800 acres of crown land at the eastern entrance of Mitchell’s Pass were laid out as the site of the village. On 21 July 1849, a sale of these plots was held before the Magistrate in Tulbagh. On 29 October 1849, sixteen properties were transferred to their new owners.-Ingestuur Ds, MG Muller