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Hendrik Koster 1 born Minden 2 Notes: According to the muster roll of 1670 he came from Minden and was a free burger, working in company with Pieter van der Westhuisen, and in 1672 he is called a 'free worker', presumably working as a hired hand, and again in 1672, he is mentioned in evidence to the Council of Justice, along with Pieter van der Westhuisen, as one of the partners of Hendrik Baart. (Uit die Raad van Justitie, 1652-1672, edited by A. Boeseken, 1986, page 403, CJ 282, pp.201-203) A note in the above publication says that he was from Wedum, a town in Friesland to the south of Leeuwarden, but it doesn't quote a source for this statement. The muster roll quoted above (1670) lists him as from Minden. In the muster rolls of 1696, as Hendrik Koster, he and Dirckje Evers are listed under the Drakenstein District but all their children that we know of were baptised in Cape Town. At the baptisms of his son, Hendrik, in 1705, his name was recorded as 'Hendrik Jochemse'. In 1717 he testified before the Council of Policy, at the request of Maria van Brakel, saying that In the year 1668 he was employed as a hired man by Jan Pietersz. Louw on his property beside the Liesbeek River. The Resolutions of the Cape Church Council mention Maria and Hendrik Koster as being wards of the said Council in 1719. (Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, Hoge, 1947, p.214) He is mentioned as her residuary legatee by his daughter, Maria Coster, in her wills of 1722 and 1731, made in Cape Town, as a burger and can therefore be assumed to have been still living then.

married 1696 [or earlier] 3 Dirkje Evers

Jochem b.1696 Evert b.1698 Maria b.1703 children Hendrik b.1705 Margrietje b.1708

children of Hendrik Koster and Dirkje Evers Jochem Koster born 1696 born 1696 4 baptized 8 July 1696, Cape Town 5 Notes: Geslagsregister van die Ou Afrikaanse Families, (De Villiers / Pama, 1961) has this name as 'Johan'. The entry in the register is abbreviated and I have puzzled over it a good deal. My first impression was that it was 'Jochem' but it could conceivably have been meant to be 'Johannes'. The name as written is constructed of 'Joh' with a horizontal line of abbreviation through the upper part of the 'h' - then follows a gap and a few more letters which, in the microfilm copy I had access to, I was unable to resolve into recognisable letters - it certainly more resembled an 'm' than an 's' but, on the other hand, it is usual (in my experience) for these abbreviation marks to announce missing letters to come, rather than indicate letters already left out. Evert Koster born 1698 born 1698 6 baptized 9 November 1698, Cape Town 7 Maria Koster born 1703 born 1703, Cape of Good Hope baptized 18 March 1703, Cape Town  married (1) between 1720 and 1722 Coenraad Hendrik Feijt 8 circa 1683-before 1727 soldier (1708) of Oude Wijnberg  married (2) 6 March 1729 Cape Town Godlieb Christiaan Opperman 9 died 1737  married (3) 27 May 1738 Cape Town Daniel de Vries 10 Hendrik Koster born 1705 born 1705 11 baptized 4 October 1705, Cape Town 12 Margrietje Koster born 1708 born 1708 13 baptized 13 May 1708, Cape Town 14

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