Johannes Valentejn Duurgaart
born Zweebruggen 1
 | | Notes: | Is this his baptism:
Swartland, baptisms, page 66, 1767
Den 3 Feberuarij
Jan
De ouwders zijn Valentijn Diergaart en
Elizabet van de Caap, als getuijgen zijn
Willem Koopman en Elizabeth Jonker
In which case the following would apply to Valentijn Diergaart, his father:
He had been a soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company
stationed in the Castle, but on 19th May he absented himself and had
not been seen again, the assumption being that he had gone far into
the interior beyond the European settlement, amon gthe Hottentots.
A proclomation of 1762 had offered pardon to such runaways if they
returned within two weeks, but he had not been seen. Now, in 1775,
considering the miseries he had endured during years of wandering,
he was granted a pardon and, since he was no longer in a state to be
of service to the Company nor able to support himself, he must be
sent back to the Netherlands by the first returning ship.
(TANAP, Resolutions of the Council of Policy, C. 153, 21 Feb 1775)
Nevertheless, he appears having children baptised in 1793. Could
this be his son, rather than he himself? |
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| | children of Johannes Valentejn Duurgaart and Sophia Kleijn | |
| | Willem Adriaan Jacobus Duurgaart born 1785
born 7 October 1785 2
baptized 3 December 1786, Swartland 3 |
| Elisabeth Jacoba Duurgaart
baptized 21 February 1790, Tulbagh 4 |
| David Johannes Duurgaart
baptized 21 February 1790, Tulbagh 5 |
| Valenteijn Duurgaart born 1792
born 9 September 1792 6
baptized 14 April 1793, Swartland 7 |
| Johannes Stephanus Duurgaart born 1793
born 25 August 1793 8
baptized 8 March 1795, Tulbagh 9 |
| Hendrina Sophia Margaretha Duurgaart born 1798
born 10 June 1798 10
baptized 17 March 1799, Tulbagh 11 |
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