Maria Willemse, SM

http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g7/p7264.htm

From www.stamouers.co.za and the informing article by N Upham http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BUITENPOSTEN/2005-02/...

1678 . . .den selfden dito (27 October) Maria Cornelis Claessen en Catrina Mallebaar. NGK Kaapstad.

GERRIT WILLEMS in sy 20tiger jare, verlaat hy sy familie in Nederland en vertrek met 'n skip na die suidpunt van Afrika. In 1690 arriveer hy aan die Kaap en trou op 09 April 1691, in Kaapstad, met Maria CORNELISSE (sy word Maria van Bengale genoem in die lys van vryburgers van 1695). (Volgens inligting was Maria van Bengale 'n slavin van Jan van Riebeeck.) Haar ouers word gegee in (M Upham, "Claas van Malabar" in N Claassen, & GH Claassen, Die Claas(s)en afstammelinge in Suid-Afrika, Centurion, Outeurs, 2001) as Cornelis Claasen en Catharina van Malabar. Look also under Niewoudt for Maria.

She also married Isaak Niewoudt:

Maria had a son born from Willemse but when she married Niewoudt, he took on this surname and all his descendants:

Gerrit Niewoudt (Willemse) was baptised 2 May 1717, X 26 April 1739 Johanna Steenkamp

Helena baptised 9 Oct 1718, X 4 March 1736 Izaak Visagie

Jeremias baptised 17 Nov 1720

The first Free Blacks OF Stellenbosch 1670-1720, Prof. JL Hattingh

CJ 5 Original legal roles and minutes, fol. 57., Magistrate Bosch against Isaac Pieters. 23 September 1713

"Another free black, ISAAC Pietersz, was in 1713 charged with" various bad behaviour and... stealing of wine ". It is actually the former complaint in the case that requires our attention.

For a time, Isaac Pietersz took up residence at Gerrit Willemsz of Leeuwarden. The last four years it has been witnessed that the latter, Isaac Pietersz appointed himself as as master in his own house and in payment, to noone. To be with him had been unbearable." At a time Pietersz even drew him up by the hair & threw him out of his own house and then took his wife, with whom he had in any case a family. From this relationship two illegitimate brown children were born. As a result of this eviction Gerrit Willemsz of Leeuwaarden has since had to wander around to look for subsistence from other colonists.

In the subsequent interrogation given by magistrate Nicholas van der Heuvel Pietersz told him that he was already 29 years old and he was released from slavery as a child at the death of Leendert van Gijselen. ( ... so Willemsz's wife, with whom Isaac had two "brown" children, was not black).

http://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/surnames-v-z/626-willemse-gerrit Rough Translation by Sharon Doubell Mar 2017:

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