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Hilletje Smit 1
born 1691 2
baptized 1 April 1691, Cape Town 3
died 16 December 1760, Waveren 4
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baptised Hulsie according to the Cape Town registers - perhaps
this was the way the dominee heard her parents say her name?
Throughout the baptisms of her own children her name is spelled
in various ways, generally suggesling the pronunciation 'Heiljtje'.
Around March 1705, aged fourteen, on her way home to her step-
father's house in Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch, with a jug of beer
that she had been sent out to fetch, she was waylaid by a slave,
Jacob van de Cust Coromandel, who asked her to sleep with him.
On being repulsed he told her he would force her. When she started
to scream for help, he threatened to cut her throat, but she was
rescued by the Freedman, Casper Vigier.
On the 10th June 1705 Jacob was hanged and his body left hanging
to rot as a mirror and deterrent for others.
(From the account given in the records of the Council of Justice,
Cape of Good Hope, CJ 782, 4).
I have assumed that she is the same Hilletje Smit, wife of Matthias de
Beer, whose Estate Accounts were drawn up in 1763, although only
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married (1) 24 October 1705 at Stellenbosch 5
Matthijs Andriesz: de Beer
wagonmaker (1705) 6
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married (2) 3 April 1757 20
Jan Georg Zorn
died after January 1761 21| Notes: | He arrived as a soldier in 1739, worked as a farmhand from
1744 to 1748 and later as a tailor in Stellenbosch. His first
marriage was to Maria du Plessis in 1749.
(From: Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, by Dr. J. Hoge) |
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| | children of Hilletje Smit and Matthijs Andriesz: de Beer | |
| | Helena de Beer born 1710
born 1710 7
baptized 1 June 1710, Drakenstein 8
Notes: Not mentioned in her mother's Estate Distribution
Accounts of 1763, so presumably died before that without
leaving heirs.
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| Samuel de Beer born 1711
born 1711 9
baptized 1 September 1711, Stellenbosch 10
Notes: He presumably died before 1714
when a brother received the same name.
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| Samuel de Beer born 1714
born 1714 11
baptized 20 May 1714, Stellenbosch 12
Notes: Francois Smit was one of the witnesses at his baptism.
Not mentioned in his mother's Estate Distribution Accounts of 1763,
so presumably died before that without leaving heirs.
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| Maria Elisabeth de Beer born 1716
baptized 4 October 1716, Stellenbosch
married (1)
unknown Zappel
married (2)
Jan Hartmann 13 |
| Zacharias de Beer born 1719
born 1719 14
baptized 5 March 1719, Stellenbosch 15
Notes: Alewijn Smit was one of the witnesses at his baptism.
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| Mattijs de Beer born 1721
baptized 8 June 1721, Stellenbosch 16 |
| Johanna Adriana de Beer 1724-before 1763
born 1724
baptized 6 February 1724, Drakenstein
died before 1763, (noted as deceased in 1763 Estate Accounts)
married
Jan Smit 17 |
| Heijltje de Beer born 1726
baptized 29 December 1726, Stellenbosch 18
Notes: Not mentioned in her mother's Estate Distribution
Accounts of 1763, so presumably died before that without
leaving heirs.
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| Jan Jurgen de Beer born 1729
baptized 26 June 1729, Stellenbosch 19
Notes: In his mother's Estate Accounts his name is given as
'Jan Jurgen' but he was baptised 'Johannes Jurge'.
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