Petronella Zaaijman

Alternate first name: Pieternella / Petronella

Alternate surname: Meerhof / van Meerhof

Please note not even FFY has a proven baptism record for her.

Van 1669-1677 is Pieternella is opgegroeid bij Jan Reyniers. Samen met haar broer Salamon zijn ze in 1677 getransporteerd naar Mauritius (samen met nog een zusje en broer Jacobus volgens Stamouers.com). Meegenomen door vrijburger Bartholomeus Borms en zijn vrouw Theuntje (de voogdouders), met de hoeker de Boode om "om de armen te ontlasten van 2 onmondige kinderen":

"Vrijdagh desen 23en Julij 1677 ....Verders door de diaconij en besorgers der arme deser residentie in Rade overgetransporteert sijnde seeker request van den vrijman Bartolomeus Borms en sijn vrouw, aan haer E. vertoont, luijdende aldus van woorde tot woord:

Verthonen mits desen aen diakonen en besorgers der armen aen de Caep d' Goede Hoope Bartholomeus Borms nevens sijne huijsvrouw Theuntje ... [5] ingesetenen alhier te kennen gevende hoe dat aen hun beijde bij hooger macht passagie verleent zijnde om eerstes daegs met God de voorste per de hoecker de Boode naer Mauritius eijlandt te mogen vervaeren, wel genegen zouden wesen den armen te releveren en t' ontlasten van twee onmondige kinderen van wijlen Sr. Pieter meerhoff zaligen, naemens Pieternella en Salamon ende deselve in haer geselschap en voorsorge naer 't gemelde eijlant mede te nemen....."

Notes.

[5] Volgens G. G. Kloeke was Bartholomeus Borns (die van word met 'n n gespel) getroud met Theuntje Bartholomeuz Elders; in 1663, word sy Theunken Bartholomeus van der Linden genoem.

[Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference code: C. 11, pp. 45-50. op http://databases.tanap.net/cgh/]

Vermelding in de archieven:

31-12-1712 Monsterrol Stellenbosch, p. 247 "Daniel Zaaijman & Pieternella Meerhof"

Zie ook de historische roman "Pieternella van die Kaap"

Auteur: Dalene Matthee

Zie ook het boek "Islands"

Auteur: Dan Sleigh

Vertaling: Andre Brink

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Pieternella MEERHOF (ook bekend as Pieternella VAN DIE KAAP) is op Mauritius getroud met Daniel ZAAIJMAN (afkomstig uit Vlissingen), die VOC se groenteboer. Hul het later na die Kaap gekom. Haar ouers was Pieter VAN MEERHOF (Ned. vir Peter HAVGARD, wat as 22-jarige soldaat en sjirurgyn op 22 MAR 1659 aan boord van die 'Princes Roijael' uit Kopenhagen in die Kaap aangekom het, later ontdekkingsreisiger, vermoor op Madagaskar in 1667) en Krotoa (ook bekend as Eva).

Broer - Jacobus VAN MEERHOF

Broer - Salamon VAN MEERHOF

Bron: Die Geslagsregister van die familie PELSER, PELSTER, PELSZER, PELTSER, PELTZER en PELZER in Suid-Afrika sedert 1708 deur R. DE V. PIENAAR, Stellenbosch, 2004. Bl. 8

(Y. DROST, 23 NOV 2009)

She [her mother, Eva] lapsed into such a dissolute and immoral life, however, that the V.O.C. again sent her to Robben Island on 26th March 1669, and placed the three children in the care of the free burgher, Jan Reyniersz.

In 1677 the free burgher, Bartholomeus Borns recieved permission from the Council of Policy to take two of Eva's children, Pieternella (Petronella) and Salamon van Meerhoff, with him to Mauritius.

There Pieternella van Meerhoff married Daniel Zaayman (from Vlissingen), and, on 26th January 1709, arrived with her husband at the Cape, where she became an ancestor of the Zaayman family in South Africa.

There were eight children born of this marriage, four sons and four daughters, of whom most (or all) were probably born on Mauritius.

The family has descended in the male line from the eldest son, Pieter Zaayman; two sons were baptized in Cape Town on 17 February 1709; two daughters were apparently married at the Cape (to Diodati and Bockelberg). A third daughter, Maria Zaayman, had already arrived at the Cape from Mauritius in 1708 with her husband, Hendrik Abraham de Vries, of Amsterdam (one of the four De Vries ancestors in South Africa) there being with her four children, of whom three boys were baptized simultaneously in Cape Town on 4 November 1708.

A fourth daughter, Eva Zaayman, date of birth unrecorded, was married (apparently at the Cape) first to Hubert Jansz van der Meyden, and later (20 September 1711) at Stellenbosch, to Johannes Smit of Delft. As far as is known no children resulted from these marriages.

Eva (Krotoa) van die Kaap

Source: SESA (Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa)

Scridb filter

<http://ancestry24.com/eva-krotoa-van-die-kaap/>

Y. DROST

More information: http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/p8002.htm

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Dan Sleigh's book

'Islands' (translated from the Afrikaans by Andre Brink) - tells the story of Krotoa/ Eva; the Hottentot chief Autshumao/Harry/Herrie; & Pieternella, Krotoa's daughter - amongst others.

Dalene Matthee's book

Pieternella daughter of Eva - tells Pieternella's story.

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The VOC abandoned its post on Mauritius in 1708.
Pieternella and her husband and children came to the Cape where they settled at Stellenbosch. They both died at the Cape before 1 Dec 1714. Her daughter Catharina married Roelof Diodati and died in Batavia. Her son Daniel died in Asia.

See http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/bosmandevriesbuys/I057.html contributed by Jansi Syfert in this [Discussion http://www.geni.com/discussions/125703?msg=884243] about whether there are still family of Pieternella in Mauritius.

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GEDCOM Note

Bio notes: SV/PROG Daniel Zaayman v. Vlissingen. Hy het 'n kontrak gehad met die Kommandeur v. Mauritius om daar patattas te plant en gaan later na die Kaap. Aank, 26.1.1709; † 1714, x Petronella Meerhoff. Die van het later veralgemeen ma Saayman. Prior to coming to the Cape around 1708, he had lived with his family on the island of Mauritius, then a Dutch East India Company Settlement, where they had grown sweet potatotes on the Lemoenboomvlakte. In 1696 he had two slaves to help him and they were expected to plant out 1000 half-aums of sweet potatoes each year and then dig up the crop.

The Commander at Mauritius suggests that for this they really need about 30 or 40 slaves.

Upon the abandonment of the settlement on Mauritius, he was one of the freemen who elected to go to the Cape (rather than to Batavia).