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Sebastiaan Rothman 1 born circa 1753, Cologne 2 died 1 December 1803, at the Cape 3 will dated 26 November 1803 and filed 16 December 1803 4 Notes: He arrived at the Cape in 1774 on the ship 'De Vrijheid' as a soldier in the employ of the Dutch East India Company. By profession he was a tailor and on 7th December 1779 he requested his burgher papers. In 1786 he bought a plot of ground in Swellendam for 1000 rixdalers since he intended to settle there. In 1791 he made a bad speculation, paying 19000 guldens for one year's monopoly of the Cape wine trade, but made a loss and was still owing 15000 guldens i n 1795 when a consortium took over his debts. In 1792, in a request to the Council of Policy, he quotes figures very different (90,000 guldens) and attributes his losses largely to smuggling by private wine traders and asks for the Company to put an end to smuggling. (source: H.C.V.Leibbrandt, Requesten. published 1905 and 1989, pages 978, 992, 1496, 1546)

married (1) after 31 May 1787 5 Elizabeth Catharina Wotky died 1827

Elisabeth Catharina Christoffel Fredrik 1789 - bef.1829 Maria Martha

married (2) circa 1783 [or earlier] 15 Maria Elisabeth Rog 1764-circa 1786

Anna Maria b.1785 Christoffel Hermanus Catharina Carolina Sebastiaan

children of Sebastiaan Rothman and Elizabeth Catharina Wotky Elisabeth Catharina Rothman 6  married Gerhardus Johannes Henricus Croeser 7 Christoffel Fredrik Rothman 8 1789-before 1829 born 1789 9 baptized 1789, Cape Town 10 died before 1829 11  married Martha Maria Boshoff 12 Maria Martha Rothman 13  married Henry Wright 14 children of Sebastiaan Rothman and Maria Elisabeth Rog Anna Maria Rothman born 1785 born 1785 16 baptized 1 October 1785, Tulbagh 17 Christoffel Hermanus Rothman 18 Catharina Carolina Rothman 19 Sebastiaan Rothman 20 baptized 1787, Cape Town, Lutheran Church 21

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