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Jurgen Kervel 1 died before 1719 2 Notes: On 15th July 1702, named as Jurger kerver, he received permission from the Cape Burgerraad to leave the Cape District in order to settle in Stellebosch. (1 STB 15/2, 32) He first appears in the Opgaaf (tax) returns in 1702 as a single man, and then in 1705 in Drakenstein with his wife, Catharina Ermans, 5 sons and 2 daughters (but I suspect the 5 sons must be a misreading for 3?), 2 slaves and 7000 vines. From then on the opgaaf returns deteriorate, 1709 just one slave and 5000 vines, 1712 no slave, 4000 vines, until by 1716 they have moved to the Cape with their two sons, three daughters and very little else. In 1719 we have the widow Kerver listed with one son and 3 daugthers. The surname appears in the earlier days mostly as 'Kerver', but later as 'Kervel'. On the 26th October 1708, in a letter to Robben Island, the person in charge there is ordered to return 'the banished burgher Jurgen Kerver'. (Leibbrandt, Letters Disapatched, 1695-1708, page 394).

married  3 ( the year they first appear as a couple in the opgaaf and muster roll returns) Trijntje Harmensz:

Burger 1710 - c1774 Elsje b.1712 Hilletje d.1760 children Catharina d.1760

children of Jurgen Kervel and Trijntje Harmensz: Burger Kervel 1710-circa 1774 born 1710 4 baptized 16 March 1710, Stellenbosch 5 died circa 1774 6 Notes: From the Opgaaf (Tax) returns, where he first appears in 1731 living in the Drakenstein District, he would seem never to have married. Between 1735 and 1757 he seems to have been farming in a very small way, at first in the Cape District and then from 1741 in the Stellenbosch District. From 1761 onwards he owned nothing but his horse and his guns. His estate accounts list very little other than small debts. His heirs were listed as: Isaak Nieuwwout as heir of the widow Corenelis Pieters: Stapper and Hendrik Andries Truter married to Susanna Catharina Victor and Johannes Victor as heirs of the late Wijnand Victor Elsje Kervel born 1712 born 1712 7 baptized 2 July 1712, Drakenstein 8 Hilletje Kervel died 1760 died 12 August 1760, Swartland  married 7 December 1731 [according to De Villiers/Pama] Theunis van Aarde Catharina Kervel died 1760 died 7 March 1760, Cape district 9 Notes: She is included as a child of the above couple on the following grounds: In 1730 she and her husband were the witnesses at the baptism of Isaac son of Isaac Niewout and Anna van Wijck, and in 1731 this latter couple were the witnesses at the baptism of Anna Catharina Victor. And in 1734 Catharina and Christiaan Victor were the witnesses to the baptism of Anna, daughter of Gerrit van Wyk and Maria Pruvo.  married 4 June 1730 [according to De Villiers/Pama] 10 Christiaan Victor

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10 Geslagsregiter van die Ou Kaapse Families, by C.C.de Villiers and C.Pama, A.A.Balkema, 1966 page 1023

9 Cape Death Notifications 1758-1838, photographed at the Cape Archives, Cape Archives, MOOC 6/1, 6/2 and 6/3 1760 Cabo Catharina Kervel huijsvr van Chr. Victor Mar 07

8 Church Registers - Drakenstein Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 644, VC 654 baptisms, page 35 1712, 2 Julij Elsje d'Vader Jurrian Kervel, d'Moeder Catharina Hermansz

7 Church Registers - Drakenstein Congregation, Cape Archives, VC 644, VC 654 baptisms, page 35, 1712

6 Estate Accounts - Kervel, Burgert - 1774-1775, Cape Archives, MOOC 13/1/9, 5 aan Isaak Nieuwwout als Erfgenaam van de wed: Corenelis Pieters: Stapper, wegens de door gem: wede. Stapper als borge voor den overledene, aan wijlen Sr. Johannes Swellengrebel, op een SchepenKennisse blijkens diverse quitantien betaalde Capitall en Interesten ten bedragen van rds 817:16, daar voor Rds 122:38 mitsgaders aan Hendrik Andries Truter gehuwt met Susanna Catharina Victor en Johannes Victor als Erfgenamen van wijlen Wijnand Victor voor rds 100:- die uijt den Boedel van evengem: Wijnand Victor, meede uit hoofde van geparjeerde Borgtogt aan wijlen Sr. Barthault de St. Jean blij,, ,,kens quitantie zijn voldaan 15:18

5 Church Registers - Stellenbosch Congregation, Consulted as microfilm at the LDS and as Palmkronieke facsimile, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk Argief, Stellenbosch, G2/7/1 marriages 1700-1786; baptisms, page 59 Burger, d'Vader Jurryen Kervel, d'Moeder Catrijna Harmense, getuygen Frederk Bota met Maria Kickers, 16 Maart 1710.

4 Church Registers - Stellenbosch Congregation, Consulted as microfilm at the LDS and as Palmkronieke facsimile, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk Argief, Stellenbosch, G2/7/1 marriages 1700-1786; baptisms, page 59, 1710

3 Muster rolls of Freemen at the Cape 1660 onwards, Cape Archives, VC39, 49 VC49, page 93, District Stellenbosch, 1705 Jurgen Kervel &Catharina Harmansz Weesmeesteren - extracten 1699 enz., Cape Archives, MOOC 5/1, page 7 2 September 1712 ondervond Zijnde, dat de gem' Trijntje Harmensz: alvorens tot het huwelijk te treeden met seekeren Juraian kerve[] bij acte van uijtkoop in dato den 16. febrij 1703, bewijs doende van het Vaderlijke Goed aan haar 3 minderjarige kinderen ... (This states that on 16 Feb 1703 Trijntje Harmensz: signed a deed of children's portion (Acte van Kinderbewys) prior to her marriage with a certain Juriaan Kerve[] )

2 Opgaaf (tax) rolls of Freemen at the Cape, University of the Western Cape Computer reduction, GISA 1708, District Stellenbosch, page 158 Jurgen Kerver &Trijntje harmensz

1 Muster rolls of Freemen at the Cape 1660 onwards, Cape Archives, VC39, 49 1708 - 1710 under Drakenstein: Jurgen Kerver &Trijntje harmensz