email: Richard Ball

|  |   |   |   |

Jacob Huijbregtsz van Rosendael 1 master gardener 2 born Leiden 3 died 2 March 1662, Cape Town 4 Notes: He arrived at the Cape on 9th April 1660 on the ship 'De Walvis' with the rank of 'adelborst', a trainee ship's officer, with a salary of 10 guilders per month. On the 15th of May of that year he was appointed acting master gardener, in charge of the Company's garden at the Cape, responsible for providing fruit and vegetables for the passing ships. On the 23 March 1661 his appointment was confirmed, in recognition of his ability and success in the post, on the full sarly of 25 guilders per month. According to a letter dated 11th November 1660, his wife and four children to join him at the Cape, and by 8th October 1661 they had arrived, for his daughter Neeltje, aged 22, was promised in marriage to Frans Gerritsz van den Uijthoorn, and married him on the 13th of the same month. On the 2nd March 1662, he died after a very short illness, leaving his widow with two children and pregnant with a third. (Sources: Resolutions of the Council of Policy, C2 1661, the Diary of Jan Anthonisz van Riebeeck, March 1662, and Lorna Newcomb's referenct to the letter in: Leibrandt's Precis of Letters and Documents received p.163)

married (1) unknown

Neeltje b. c1639

(2) circa 1648 (assumed) Barbara Geens circa 1626-before 1688

Machtelt b.1649 Machtelt b. c1651 Sara 1653 - 1690 children Johannes b.1655 Maria children Machtild b.1662

children of Jacob Huijbregtsz van Rosendael and unknown Neeltje van Rosendael 5 born circa 1639 born circa 1639 6  married 13 October 1661 Cape Town 8 Frans Gerritsz van den Uijthoorn 7 born c 1644 9 children of Jacob Huijbregtsz van Rosendael and Barbara Geens Machtelt van Rosendael born 1649 born 1649 10 baptized 3 March 1649, Amsterdam 11 Machtelt van Rosendael born circa 1651 born circa 1651 12 baptized 29 January 1651, Amsterdam 13 Sara van Rosendael 1653-1690 born 1653, Amsterdam baptized 14 October 1653, Amsterdam died between 1690 and 1692  married 28 May 1670 Cape Town Adriaan Willemsz van Brakel 14 died circa 1699 carpenter in VOC service later free settler Johannes van Rosendael born 1655 born 1655 15 baptized 18 September 1655, Amsterdam 16 Maria van Rosendael  married 29 May 1678 Cape Town Cornelis Wobma skipper of the hooker De Bode (1677) Machtild van Rosendael born 1662 baptized 8 October 1662, Cape Town 17

click on names in blue to move around the family tree small blue numbers provide the source of the fact to which they are attached all material on this page copyright Richard Ball 2008

|     |    |    |

Created with code developed from Dan Pidcock's Gedcom to HTML converter