Michael Pentz, SV/PROG

PENTZ Michael *9.8.1700 a. 1723 as soldaat v Lübeck, Duitsland, assistent 1725-1729, boekhouer 1732-1735, burger in 1735 † c.1750 Bron: SAG vol P p489

PENTZ MICHAEL (S). Lübeck. Son of the silk-merchant Michael P. and Cecilia Ritter. * 9.8.1700 (W. Schmidt, p. 102). So. 1723, assistant 1725-27. According to W. Schmidt, p. 102, he was since 1728 bookkeeper on the Spieringshoek, which plied between the Cape and Delagoa Bay; according to Rq. 1735-36: 23 he came (back ?) to the Cape in 1731 as adelborst, appointed assistant the same year, bookkeeper 1732-35, b. 1735. ~ 21.10.1731 Johann Barbara Oberholster (see Oberholster under Immigrants from Switzerland). 10 children. + 1750. (GMR 1723-27, 1731-35; Rq. 1735-36: 23; CJ 285, p. 333; Test. CJ 1169: 30; G.R. nr. 700.)

- Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946)