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Jan Coenraadsz Visser alias Jan Groff 1 born Ommen 2 died circa 1696, (assumed from muster rolls) 3 Notes: He left Holland from Goeree on 17th December 1657, travelling on the ship 'Dordrecht' as a soldier of the Dutch East India Company. The ship arrived at the Cape on 28th April 1658. On the 8th May he was drafted on shore as a rifleman (he is listed as a soldier in the muster roll of 5th March 1659) and became a free settler on 30th September 1659. Although several web sites state that he was a preacher, I have found no source for this statement. Nor have I found any evidence in the records that I have been able to consult to indicate even an approximate birth date for him. His wife and children were granted a passage to the Cape and arrived on the 'Malacca' on 4th February 1662. The muster rolls of 1664, the earliest to list numbers of children, lists: Jan Coenraet Visser, van Ommen met Geertje Gerrits van Hardenburg. 3 kinderen (Lorna Newcomb suggest that these were probably Geesje, Gerrit and Coenraad.) (Information from Leibbrandt's Letters and Documents Received 1649-1662, and from the Daybook of Jan Anthonisz van Riebeeck, 1651-1662, references provided by Lorna Newcomb) In the muster rolls of 1688 Jan Coenraet Visser and Grietje Visser are listed (VC 39, page 79). After this date there the muster rolls that exist (1690, 1691) do not list wives. In 1692 Jan Coenraet Visscher is listed without a wife (wives were listed in this year), VC39 page 111, and he is again single in the roll for 1692 and 1695 but does not appear after that date (next roll 1696). In his opgaaf return for 1695 he is recorded as living in the Cape District, single, with only 6 cattle and no other farming produce, one female slave, 1 slave boy and 2 slave girls.

married Geertjen Gerrits died 1692

Maria Jansz c1649 - c1718 children Gerrit Jansz d.1713 children Geesje Jans d. c1713 children Coenraad Jansz 1663 - c1743 children Zacharia Jansz 1665 - c1721 children Jan Jansz b.1667 children

children of Jan Coenraadsz and Geertjen Visser Maria Jansz Visser circa 1649-circa 1718 born circa 1649, Ommen died circa June 1718, (assumed from date of inventory)  married (1) circa 1664 at the Cape Willem Willemsz de Lierman 4 died 1692  (2) 1674 extramarital relationship Okker Cornelisz: Olivier 5 died 1692  married (3) circa June 1690 Mauritius Lambert Simonsz Stam 6 died 1692 Gerrit Jansz Visser died 1713 born Ommen died between February and September 1713  married 4 August 1675 Cape Town Jannetie Thielemans circa 1659-1717 Geesje Jans Vissers died circa 1713 born Hardenberg died circa June 1713, (during the smallpox epidemic)  married (1) 12 July 1671 Cape Town Hendrik Gysbertsz Verschuur 7 died circa 1709 of a farm on the Liesbeeck River  married (2) 26 December 1694 Cape Town Dirck Gijsbertsz Verwey 8 died circa 1709 farmer of a farm situated on the Paardeberg Coenraad Jansz Visser 1663-circa 1743 born 1663, at the Cape baptized 8 April 1663, Cape Town died circa December 1743  married 5 August 1685 Cape Town Catharina Everts Van Der Zee 9 died circa 1713 Zacharia Jansz Visser 1665-circa 1721 born 1665, at the Cape baptized 23 August 1665, Cape Town died circa 1721  married (1) 29 October 1679 Cape Town Diederik Putter 10 1673-circa 1722  married (2) Johannes Basson 11 1673-circa 1722  married (3) 5 July 1706 Stellenbosch Andries Krugel 12 1673-circa 1722 farmer (1713) of the farm, 't Blomkooltje, Paarl and by 1734 Weltevreden, Joostenberg Jan Jansz Visser born 1667 born 1667, at the Cape baptized 16 January 1667, Cape Town  married 8 May 1689 Cape Town Catrina Janse Van Der Zee 13 circa 1675-1734

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13 Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 baptisms, page 40, 1690 den 5 Martius een kind gedoopt waer van vader is Jan Janse Visscer, de moeder Catrina Janse van der Zee ende genaemt Jannetie

12 Inventory - Ras, Maria wed. Hedrik Krugel 1734, Cape Archives, MOOC 8/5, 117 Maria Ras, Weed. wyle den Landbouwer Andries Kruger ... mitsgaders de voorsoon van opgem' andries Kruger in eerder huwelijk bij wijle sijn huijsvrouw Sacharia Jansz: Visser geprocrueert, gent. Hendrik Kruger

11 Church Registers - Stellenbosch Congregation, Cape Archives and Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk Argief, Stellenbosch, VC 33 and VC 39, and Palmkronieke facsimile Arnoldus, gedoopt 26e Febr. 1702, zoon van Johannes Basson, en d'moeder Zacharias Jansze Visser als getuige Cornelis Ockers

10 Will - Visser, Zacharia Jansz &Andries Krugel 1713, Dated 24 June 1713 and proved 21 November 1721, Cape Archives, 1 STB/18/3, 27 and MOOC 7/1/3, 29 de agt voorkinderen van de tes,, tatrice geprocreert bij wijlen Diderik Putter Salgr. met namen Grietie, Elsie, Jannetie, Susanna, Geertie, Aeltie, Maria, Johanne Lodwijk Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 marriages, page 82, Anno 1679 den 29 October Diederick Potter van Surenbergh, jonghman, vrijwilts[gnt.] en Zacharia Visser van de Cabo de Boa Esperance

9 Will - Visser, Coenraad Jansz and Catarina Everts - 1710, dated 15 November 1710 and filed 21 February 1722, Cape Archives, MOOC 7/1/3, 37 Catarina Everts van der Zee

8 Estate Accounts - Gansevanger, Trijnte Thenisz - 1715 desselfs kinderen, en kinds kinderen hier ondergenoemt als Beatrix Verweij, Altje Verweij, Johannes Franke []welijk hebbende Trijntje Verweij, Sn. Pieter Reaal getrouwt met marritje Verweij, en gijsbert Verweij, representerende de drie Laast genoemd []e over Leeden vader Dirck Verweij Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 marriages 1694 Sijn in den huwelijken staet bevestigt Dirk Gysbertse Verwey jongman geboortig van Polanen met Geesje Vissers wed van Hendrik Gysbertse Verschuur

7 Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 marriages 12 July 1671 Henrick gysbertsz van Amersfoort en Geesje jans van den harden bergh (sic) and 26.12.1694 ... met Geesje Vissers wed van Hendrik Gysbertse Verschuur

6 Estate Accounts - Visser, Maria Jansz - 1718, apparently dated 1721 (Archives index) - I can't read the year in the photograph I have., Cape Archives, MOOC 13/1/1, 128 Goederen naargelaen en mete 'er dood ontruijmt door Maria Visser Weedu Sim[ ]Lambertse Stam zalr. ... Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 baptisms 1692 April 21: een kint gedoopt waer van vader is Lambert Simonsz de moeder Maria Janze is genamet Simon 1696 July 12 gedoopt het kint van Dirck Putter en (Sara,crossed out) Sacharia Wagenaer onder getuygen van Lammert Simonsz en Margareta Janse genamt Maria

5 Estate Accounts - Verwey, Aletta 1721-1723, dated 1723, Cape Archives, MOOC 13/1/2,11 Aletta Verwey weede. okker Cornelisz: Olivier

4 Estate Accounts - Visser, Maria Jansz - 1718, apparently dated 1721 (Archives index) - I can't read the year in the photograph I have., Cape Archives, MOOC 13/1/1, 128 Goederen naargelaen en mete 'er dood ontruijmt door Maria Visser Weedu Sim[ ]Lambertse Stam zalr. ten voordeele van haar 5 nagelatene kinderen met namen Dina, Daatje, [ ] en Cornelis Willemsz. van 't 1e bed ... Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 baptisms, page 21, 1677 Den 27 dito (Junij) Alida, Willem Willemsz van Deventer en Maria Jansz Visser, (get:) Gerrit Jansz Visser en Jannetie Tielmans Diary and Letters of Zacharias Wagenaar 1662-1666, edited by A.J. Boeseken, published Pretoria, 1973 6 November 1664, Thursday Op de middach is ons door Willem Willemsz, in de Wandelingh de Lierman, vrije lantbouwer alhier, toegebracht een levendige jonge reinocer waervan hij geisteren de moeder met noch een jongetje achter den Rondenbergh (die omtrent 4 mijlen van hier recht techen over 't Robbeneijlant leght) geschoten hadde ... op hope dat dit rare beest sulle cunnen opqueecken en met de te verwachten retourschepen naer 't vaderlant zenden. Declaration - Jansz, Lammert 1718 heeft gekent zeekere Wedu' Maria Jansz: Visser gent. getrouwt geweest zijnde met eenen Willem inde wandeling de lierman genaamt. (... knew a certain widow named Maria Jansz Visser who had been married to one Willem known as The Lierman.)

3 Muster rolls of Freemen at the Cape 1660 onwards, Cape Archives, VC 39, vol 1, VC 49 In 1692 Jan Coenraet Visscher is listed without a wife (wives were listed in this year), VC39 page 111, and he is again single in the roll for 1692 and 1695 but does not appear after that date (next roll 1696).

2 Muster rolls of the Company Employees at the Cape, Monsterrolle van de Officieren Matrosen ende soldaten bescheijden int fort de Goede Hoope aen Cabo de boa Esperance, Cape Archives, VC 39, vol 2 den 5en Maert A:o 1659, p. 27 Jan Coenraet Visser, van Ommen, soldaet

1 Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Received 1649-1662, by H.C.V. Leibbrandt, published Cape Town, 1898 Letter from Delft dated 30.11.1660 p.164: "From our ships' books we found that the two following persons have become free men at the Cape, who, when they left, had incurred considerable debt for their outfit, which, however, they had not communicated to their creditors, viz., Jan Coenraadt Visscher of Eemnes (?), [Note - this is Leibbrandt's question mark] soldier from the Dort, who left Patria in 1657, was on the 8th May 1658 drafted on shore as hunter, and made freeman on the 30th September, 1659. He still owes Maria Jansz here f93.9." Information from Lorna Newcomb who adds the following note: The ship which is here referred to was the Dordrecht which belonged to the Delft Chamber and which had left Goeree on 17 December 1657 ... and reached the Cape on 28 April 1658, leaving again for Batavia on 13 May 1658 (Van Riebeeck's Diary, vol 2, p.261). Church Registers - Cape Town Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 603, VC 604, VC 605, VC 644 baptisms, page 2, 1665 Noch een kind van Joan Coenraadsz Visscher by Grietje Gerrits, genaamt Sacharias Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope, TANAP, Cape Archives 26 March / 1 April 1677, C10, pp. 95-106 ... tot aan de huysinge van Jan Coenraet Visser alias Jan Groff ...