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Jan Coenraadsz Visser alias Jan Groff died circa 1696 Geertjen Gerrits died 1692 Okker Cornelisz: Olivier died circa 1705 Maria Jansz Visser circa 1649-circa 1718

Cornelis Ockers alias Willemsz 1 of Hase Craal, on the Berg River, Drakenstein 2 born 1673, at the Cape 3 baptized 27 August 1673, Cape Town 4 died circa 1713 5 Notes: On the 22nd December 1707 he received permission from the Burgerraad at the Cape to remove from the Cape District in order to move to the Drakenstein district. (1 STB 15/2) The inventory of his deceased estate (MOOC 8/2, 119 dated 14 October 1714) lists their very few worldly possessions whose total value of Rdrs 176:40 is entirely swallowed up by their long list of modest debts which totalled Rdrs 179:70. for a note on his parentage see below#

married 22 November 1699 at Cape Town 6 Anna Catharina Rigman Van Weij 1686-1777

Maria d. c1738 children Johannes Cornelisz: 1706 - 1764 children Catharina 1708 - bef.1743 children Sara b.1711

children of Cornelis and Anna Catharina Rigman Ockers Maria Ockers died circa 1738 died circa May 1738  married Steven Fouche 1686-1777 of Knolvalleij and Welgevonden, both on the Breede Rivier Johannes Cornelisz: Olivier 1706-1764 born 1706 baptized 13 June 1706, Drakenstein died 21 September 1764, Waveren  married 12 February 1730 Drakenstein Cicilia Du Pres Catharina Olivier 1708-before 1743 born 1708 baptized 30 December 1708, Stellenbosch died before December 1743  married Arnoldus Johannes Basson 7 Sara Olivier 8 born 1711 born 1711 9 baptized 15 July 1711, Stellenbosch 10  married 19 June 1729 Drakenstein 11 Stephanus Bekker 1702-circa 1742

# The parents of Cornelis Ockers alias Willemsz The record of his baptism does not name a father and is dated in August 1673. We can reasonably assume that he was born shortly before that date, meaning that he was conceived sometime around September or October 1672, at which time his mother's husband, Willem Willemsz, was penned up on Robben Island (see my notes). During this time she is recorded as having stooped 'down lightly to whoredom out of wedlock and with a certain free burger named Ocker Cornelisz to procreate two children'. Cornelis is named in the deceased estate accounts of his mother as her son, Cornelis Willemsz, deceased, leaving four minor children. We do not have a Cornelis Willemsz marrying and producing four children at the Cape, but we do have a Cornelisz Ockers doing just that. There is no help on this point to be found in the baptism details of his children, but they did, later, assume the surname of Olivier. I think there can be little doubt that he was one of the two children referred to in the Resolutions of the Council of Policy in August and September 1676 who had been fathered by Ocker Cornelisz, later surnamed Olivier, during the period when Willem Willemsz was imprisoned on Robben Island.

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