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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?

married Sophia Kleijn

Willem Adriaan Jacobus b.1785 Elisabeth Jacoba David Johannes Valenteijn b.1792 Johannes Stephanus b.1793 Hendrina Sophia Margaretha b.1798

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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