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Cornelis Gerritsz van Nieuwkerken 1 of Tijgerberg 2 died circa July 1710 3 Notes: According to the inventory of 1710, they also owned an uninhabited farm on the Old Kuils Rivier. They had 60 cattle, 700 sheep, 8 horses and 3 pigs. They owned, too, five male slaves, one female slave and three slave children. Although sentenced on 9th August 1706 by the corrupt government of Willem Adriaan van der Stel (CJ 782, 10) to banishment on Mauritius, this sentence would seem to have been passed in his absence, since the Lanndrost Starrenburg, in a letter to the Council dated 2 October 1706 describes Cornelis Nieuwkerk as not to be apprehended. Also the Council at the Cape received notification in March 1707 that the settlement at Maritius was to be abandoned and no evidence seems to survive that any of these rebels were, in fact, deported. The decision of the Council of the Seventeen Gentlemen, governing body of the Dutch East India Company, to recall the Governor W.A. van der Stel, received around May 1707, also declared that any of the protestors who had been imprisoned or sent away should be released or allowed to return. Certainly the yearly records of the Cape burgers, known as the Monsterollen (VC 49) so carefully transcribed by GM Theal in the 1890s, record that Cornelis and his wife Maria were present at the Cape in all the years 1706 to 1709. What precisely his role may have been in the struggle against the Governor, I have not yet been able to establish. for a note on his parentage see below#

married 1 April 1691 at Cape Town 4 Maria van der Westhuisen 1675-circa 1734 of De Drooge Valleij 5

Alletta c1692 - 1713 Gerrit b.1695 Johannes 1697 - c1744 children Pieter b.1702 Helena b.1704 Barend b.1709

children of Cornelis Gerritsz van Nieuwkerken and Maria van der Westhuisen Alletta van Nieuwkerken 6 circa 1692-1713 born circa December 1692 7 baptized 4 January 1693, Cape Town 8 died 1713 9  married 10 May 1711 Cape Town 10 Anthonij van Rooijen 1675-circa 1734 Gerrit van Nieuwkerken 11 born 1695 born 1695 12 baptized 18 September 1695, Cape Town 13 Notes: On the 29th December 1717 he requested and received permission from the Burgerraad to move from the Cape District to that of Stellenbosch. (1 STB 15/2) Johannes van Nieuwkerken 1697-circa 1744 born 1697 baptized 15 September 1697, Cape Town died circa December 1744  married (1) Engela Plooij 14  married (2) 20 November 1738 Drakenstein Anna van Staden 15 Pieter van Nieuwkerken 16 born 1702 born 1702 17 baptized 2 April 1702, Cape Town 18 Helena van Nieuwkerken born 1704 born 1704 19 baptized 9 November 1704, Cape Town 20 Barend van Nieuwkerken 21 born 1709 born January 1709 22 baptized 20 January 1709, Cape Town 23

# The parents of Cornelis Gerritsz van Nieuwkerken He first appears in the records at the time of his marriage in 1691 in the registers of the Church at Cape Town. There he is inscribed as Cornelis Gerritsz van Nieukerk. It was the practice in these records to record the name and place of birth of the marrying parties, so it is possible that Van Nieukerk represents his place of birth. Against this, however, is his sig- nature, found on three contracts preserved in the Cape Archives. The earliest of these is dated 1693. He has a good handwriting of the old chancery hand style, what I imagine was probably taught in the Dutch schools in the mid 17th century, and in all three signatures there is no sign of a patronym, he signs with the surname 'Van Nijkerken'. In the Muster roll of 1692 he appears as Cornelis Gerritsz but in the next year he is recorded as 'Cornelis van Nieuwkerken'. I think we must therefore assume that he used the surname, Van Nijkerken, before he came to the Cape. This means that we have no idea where he was born, but the patronym used in the marriage entry and the muster roll of 1693, informs us that his father's name was Gerrit. I have not yet found, in the doucments, any indication of when he was born.

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