 | | | | # The parents of Catharina Cornelisz
I have no direct proof of her family, but I believe that she
is the same as the Catarina who was baptised on the fifth
of November at Cape Town, daugher of Kees de Boer and
Catharina (Cape Town church registers, VOC 603). In his
article 'The Soetkoek Syndrome' (Capensis 2/2001: 27-30 )
Mansell Upham provides the evidence that the man known
as Kees de Boer was in fact Cornelis Claasz. In two notarial
documents in the Stellenbosch Archive (1STB 18/155, p. 272
and 1STB 18/156, p. 50, 12) Robbert Jansz van Hoorn is
associated with members of this family, although no
relationship is stated.
In addition, Catharina van Bengale and her second husband
were witnesses to the baptism of the two sons of Robbert
Jansz and Catharina named Johannes and Jan, in 1700 and
1704, and Robbert Jansz van Hoorn was a baptismal witness,
along with Adriaantje Gabriels (who would be his sister-in-law,
if this connection is correct) at the baptism of a daughter of
Elsie Speldenburgh, daughter of Adriaantje Gabriels, in 1702
at Stellenbosch.
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