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Jacob Cloeten died 1693 Fijtje Raderotjes died 1665 Willem Schalks van der Merwe died 1716 Elsje Jacobs Cloeten died circa 1702

Sophia Schalk van der Merwe 1 born 1670, at the Cape 2 baptized 2 November 1670, Cape Town 3 died after January 1736 4 Notes: There are several deeds in the Stellenbosch Notarial archives testifying to her determination to collect money owed to her in the face of the smallpox epidemic of 1713 which had robbed her of her husband and two of her daughters. She wasn't going to allow her money to go the same way! On the 28th December 1713, Jan Sandertsz van Westerhout and Maria Buisset testified that they remembered that, on 7th June of that year, when Pieter and Jan Vijoen lay sick on an ox cart in front of her door, she taxed Peter with a debt of 203 guldens asking, 'Did you get the reminder I sent to your parents, one does not know in the present time if it will be life or death'. He replied 'there is no need to worry, I have acknowledged the debt with a cross in your book'. On 30th October 1713 Jan Jurgen Roose, at her behest, declared that on the 21st June of that year he had been sent by the farmer Claas Elbertsz to the widow of Willem Elbertsz, at that time lying sick in the house of her father, Francois du Toit, to urge her to pay to the aforementioned Claas Elbertsz the debt of 300 guldens, but that when he had arrived at the house he found the said widow in extremity and was unable to serve the notice as he was received by her father, to whom he said 'I am come to your daughter about money matters' and that F. du Toit answered him 'This is no time for money matters, but rather for thinking of the soul and salvation'.

married (1) 12 November 1684 at Cape Town 5 Roelof Pasman died before 1695

Margareta b.1689 Catharina 1691 - 1763 children Sibilla b.1693 children Roelofphina b. c1695

married (2) 25 January 1696 at Stellenbosch 19 Pieter Robbertsz Landdrost and farmer 20 of Stellenbosch 21 born Neustad, near Lubeck 22 died 1713, (before 16th October of that year) 23 buried 1713, Stellenbosch 24 will dated 2 May 1709 Notes: When he married in 1696 the marriage entry records him as a sergent in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In his will he mentions his sister, Trijntie Robbertsz: , living at Gruems about one mile from Nieuwstad, near Lubeck. There seem to have been no children born in his marriage to Sophia van der Merwe. In the opgaaf returns for 1705, 1709 and 1712 only four daughters (no sons) are listed for them, the four daughters being, of course, the children of her first marriage. For more arguments see my article published in Familia, no 3, 2006, page 75. C.C. de Villiers, in his Geslacht Register of the 1890s, allocated them a son, Jan Robberts. The article also suggests who his parents might in fact have been.

children of Sophia Schalk van der Merwe and Roelof Pasman Margareta Pasman 6 born 1689 born 1689 7 baptized 19 August 1689, Stellenbosch 8  married Claas Elberts 9 born circa 1675 farmer 10 of Stellenbosch 11 born circa 1675, at the Cape 12 Catharina Pasman 1691-1763 born 1691 baptized 27 August 1691, Stellenbosch died 24 February 1763, Stellenbosch  married 17 September 1713 Stellenbosch Philip Morkel 13 constable on the returning ship 'Oosterstein' Sibilla Pasman born 1693 baptized 9 August 1693, Stellenbosch  married (1) Jan Albert Laubster 14 1686-circa 1720 Heemraad of Nooitgedagt, Stellenbosch  married (2) 19 July 1722 Stellenbosch Jacob Cloete 15 Roelofphina Pasman 16 born circa 1695 born circa September 1695 17 baptized 27 September 1695, Stellenbosch 18

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