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Adriaan Willemsz van Brakel 1 carpenter in VOC service later free settler 2 born Hergtenbosch 3 died circa March 1699 4 will dated 9 January 1699 Notes: He first appears in the muster rolls of Company servants at the Cape in April 1664 as a carpenter and appears thus again in 1665, but in 1666 he is listed as a Master carpenter and continutes such until 1672 (between 1673 and 1684 no lists of company officials names survive) appearing again in 1685 as one of the married officials (no trade or rank specified) with his wife, Sara van Rosendael and five children. His life as an official seems to overlap his life as a free person, for in 1682 he appears in the muster rolls of free persons for the first time and in 1686 (the next surviving roll) he appears again and so continues until 1698. There is no surviving roll for 1699. The inventory, dated 29th September 1699, drawn up after his death, is stated in that document to have been compiled by his daughters Elisabeth and Maria van Brakel, two of his six surviving children, and that they present the inventory to the honourable members of the Orphan Chamber and to their own guardian, Willem ten Damme and his wife Helena Reijnsten. The children are given as listed in his will dated 9th January 1699.

married 28 May 1670 at Cape Town 5 Sara van Rosendael 1653-1690

Willem b.1671 Elisabeth b.1673 Elisabeth b.1674 Jacobus b.1676 Maria b.1677 children Jacobus 1679 - bef.1713 children Jacobus b.1681 Hermanus b.1682 Harmanus b. c1683 Magteld b.1685 Harmanus 1686 - c1728 Leendert 1687 - 1713 Barbera b.1688 Maghtill b.1690

children of Adriaan Willemsz van Brakel and Sara van Rosendael Willem van Brakel born 1671 born 1671 6 baptized 12 April 1671, Cape Town 7 Elisabeth van Brakel born 1673 born 1673 8 baptized 12 March 1673, Cape Town 9 Elisabeth van Brakel 10 born 1674 born 1674 11 baptized 13 May 1674, Cape Town 12  married (1) 25 July 1701 Stellenbosch 14 Hans Jurgen Grimpe 13 died before 1703 died before 1703, (assumed from date of next marriage) 15  married (2) 7 June 1703 Stellenbosch 17 Adam Tas 16 Jacobus van Brakel born 1676 born 1676 18 baptized 12 April 1676, Cape Town 19 Maria van Brakel born 1677 born 1677, at the Cape baptized 30 May 1677, Cape Town  married (1) 22 January 1702 Cape Town Jacobus Louw 20 1679-1713 contractor for the supply of meat to the Company of The Cape  married (2) circa July 1723 at the Cape Jan Valk 21 born circa 1681 Jacobus van Brakel 1679-before 1713 born 1679 baptized 19 May 1679, Cape Town died before July 1713  married 22 January 1702 Stellenbosch Margareta Elbertsz 22 1686-before 1713 Jacobus van Brakel 23 born 1681 born 1681 24 baptized 5 January 1681, Cape Town 25 Hermanus van Brakel born 1682 born 1682 26 baptized 13 December 1682, Cape Town 27 Harmanus van Brakel born circa 1683 born circa 1683 28 baptized 2 January 1684, Cape Town 29 Magteld van Brakel born 1685 born 1685 30 baptized 25 February 1685, Cape Town 31 Harmanus van Brakel 32 1686-circa 1728 born 1686 33 baptized 30 June 1686, Cape Town 34 died circa October 1728 35  married 1 April 1708 Stellenbosch 37 Geertruij van den Bijl 36 Notes: In her petition to the Council of Policy, 15th June 1723, she states that she, with her husband, had five children, three of whom were still living at that date. That for the first nine years of their marriage he was a good husband, even tempered and considerate (betaamt en toestaat) but that over the last six years he had been ruined by becoming a drunkard, which was not only reflected in his domestic affairs and occupation, and in beating his wife, but he was no longer providing for his family, reducing her children to begging. The farm was falling into ruin, the animals no longer tended, the slaves fleeing because of his brutality in his drunken state. He was refusing to see his wife, forcing his eldest son to drink with him and, in his worst states asking his children for rope with which to hang himself. She therefore requested permission to sue for divorce, which permission was granted. (Source: Resolusies van die Politieke Raad, C. 66, pp. 69-91. Dingsdagh den 15 Junij 1723, voormiddags. TANAP) Leendert van Brakel 38 1687-1713 born 1687 39 baptized 5 October 1687, Cape Town 40 died 4 July 1713 41 Notes: He died at the height of the smallpox epidemic at the Cape, apparently in the home of his brother-in-law Jacobus Louw, making his will verbally to the Clerk who was there making Jacobus Louw's will. Barbera van Brakel 42 born 1688 born 1688, (assumed from muster rolls) 43 baptized 14 November 1688, Cape Town 44 Maghtill van Brakel born 1690 born 1690 45 baptized 31 March 1690, Cape Town 46

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