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Marten Jans van Staden circa 1638-1716 Maria Ariens van Amerongen died circa 1677

Martinus van Staden 1 farmer (1707) 2 of Paarl Diamant 3 born 1675 4 baptized 6 June 1675, Werkhoven, Utrecht 5 died between September and December 1707 6 Notes: There is no record of their marriage and it is likely that it took place at Drakenstein since the church registers of that church before about 1717 are missing, whereas those for Stellenbosch are extant from 1700 onwards. In the monsterollen (muster rolls) of 1700 Marthinus Staden is listed without any wife (although wives are not listed in every year, in this year they were), In the opgaafrollen (tax returns) for 1702 he is listed as having 1 wife and 1 daughter and living in the Cape district - in the same year he and Aletta baptised their first child in the church at Cape Town. In 1705 he and his wife, named as Aaltie van der Merwe, still have just one daughter, but now they are living in Drakenstein. On 6th September 1707 he signed a document waiving his right to his maternal inheritance, but by the 31st December of that year he was dead, since Aletta is listed in the muster rolls of that date as his widow. By the time of the Opgaaf of 1709, Aletta had married Claas Jansz van Rensburg, and he is listed with one wife, two sons and one daughter, and living in Drakenstein. It has occurred to me to wonder whether, in the baptism recorded on the 27th June 1706 at Drakenstein, the name 'Marthe' is in fact a mistake for 'Marthinus'.

circa 1701 (probably at Drakenstein) 7 Aletta van der Merwe circa 1687-circa 1729

Maria 1702 - c1785 Marthinus c1705 - c1746 children Marthe b.1706

children of Martinus van Staden and Aletta van der Merwe Maria van Staden 8 1702-circa 1785 farmer 9 of Land van Waveren (?) 10 born 1702, Cape of Good Hope 11 baptized 22 January 1702, Cape Town 12 died circa 1785, (before 30th April 1785 when her will was filed) 13 will dated 1775 14 and filed 30 April 1785 15 Notes: In her will of 1764 she names a loan cattle farm situated 'beyond the Twenty Four Rivers, across the Little Elsebos'. This would appear to have been where she herself lived. Later the codicil to her will made on the 25th July 1777 was signed and dated 'on my dwelling place situated across the Four-and-Twenty Rivers, across the Little Elsenbosch'. On her cattle farm she had not only the house with farm buidings but a cellar and a smithy and she owned several slaves. She mentions eight slaves in her will of 1775 but names only three of them: a woman called Philiela, a youth called America and a boy called Cham (they are named on separate occasions, not as a group). She had also two loan farms situated in the Roggeveld, 'Vogelfonteyn' and 'Houd den Beck' as well as another, 'beyond the Oliphants River, at Langefonteyn'. She left the buildings on the two Roggeveld farms to her nephew, Isaac Schalk van der Merwe. By 1825, one of these, 'Houdenbek', had passed to one of Isaac's nephews, Willem Nicolaas van der Merwe, when it was the setting of the slave uprising of that year.  married 19 November 1719 Drakenstein 17 Francois Smit 16 circa 1693-circa 1758 farmer (1722) 18 born circa 1693, Cape of Good Hope 19 died circa 1758, (before 7th September 1758 when his will was filed) 20 will dated 30 June 1722 and filed 7 September 1758 21 Marthinus van Staden circa 1705-circa 1746 born circa 1705 died circa March 1746  married Catharina Botha 22 died before 1791 Marthe van Staden born 1706 baptized 27 June 1706, Drakenstein 23

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