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

Aletta van der Merwe 1 born 1684, at the Cape 2 baptized 30 April 1684, Cape Town 3 died circa October 1729 4 Notes: The details for these families come from the wills of 1722 and 1758 of Maria van Staden and from the facsimiles of the original will and estate accounts of Aletta vd Merwe that appear on the wonderful Van Rensburg web site created by André van Rensburg. Admitted a member of the Stellenbosch congregation about 1700. After her death, the Weeskamer, at their meeting of 21st November 1729, approved the placement of her children, Elsje, Cicilia, Hendrik and Sophia with their brother-in-law, Frans Smit, and Willem and Nicolaas with their brother Johannes, all at no charge on the Weeskamer. (MOOC 1/6, Weeskamer Notulen)

(1) circa 1701 (probably at Drakenstein) 5 Martinus van Staden circa 1677-1707 farmer (1707) 6 of Paarl Diamant 7

Maria 1702 - c1785 Marthinus c1705 - c1746 children Marthe b.1706

married (2) 14 August 1708 at Stellenbosch 24 Claas Jansz van Rensburg circa 1661-circa 1728 farmer 25

Johannes 1709 - bef.1775 Elsje 1712 - 1763 children Cicilia 1715 - 1774 children Willem 1717 - 1746 children Claas b.1720 Hendrik b.1723 Sophia b.1725

children of Aletta van der Merwe and Martinus van Staden Maria van Staden 8 1702-circa 1785 farmer 9 of Land van Waveren (?) 10 born 1702, Cape of Good Hope 11 baptized 22 January 1702, Cape Town 12 died circa 1785, (before 30th April 1785 when her will was filed) 13 will dated 1775 14 and filed 30 April 1785 15 Notes: In her will of 1764 she names a loan cattle farm situated 'beyond the Twenty Four Rivers, across the Little Elsebos'. This would appear to have been where she herself lived. Later the codicil to her will made on the 25th July 1777 was signed and dated 'on my dwelling place situated across the Four-and-Twenty Rivers, across the Little Elsenbosch'. On her cattle farm she had not only the house with farm buidings but a cellar and a smithy and she owned several slaves. She mentions eight slaves in her will of 1775 but names only three of them: a woman called Philiela, a youth called America and a boy called Cham (they are named on separate occasions, not as a group). She had also two loan farms situated in the Roggeveld, 'Vogelfonteyn' and 'Houd den Beck' as well as another, 'beyond the Oliphants River, at Langefonteyn'. She left the buildings on the two Roggeveld farms to her nephew, Isaac Schalk van der Merwe. By 1825, one of these, 'Houdenbek', had passed to one of Isaac's nephews, Willem Nicolaas van der Merwe, when it was the setting of the slave uprising of that year.  married 19 November 1719 Drakenstein 17 Francois Smit 16 died circa 1758 farmer (1722) 18 born Cape of Good Hope 19 died circa 1758, (before 7th September 1758 when his will was filed) 20 will dated 30 June 1722 and filed 7 September 1758 21 Marthinus van Staden circa 1705-circa 1746 born circa 1705 died circa March 1746  married Catharina Botha 22 died before 1791 Marthe van Staden born 1706 baptized 27 June 1706, Drakenstein 23 children of Aletta van der Merwe and Claas Jansz Johannes Jansz van Rensburg 26 1709-before 1775 born 1709 27 baptized 17 July 1709, Stellenbosch 28 died before 1775 29 Notes: He requested from the Weesmeesteren that he might be permitted to buy in one of his deceased mother's farmsteads situated over the Rodesant at the auction of her goods which was to take place on 16th November. This was granted. (MOOC 1/6, Weeskamer Notulen, 7th October 1729) Elsje Jansz van Rensburg 1712-1763 born 1712 baptized 31 July 1712, Stellenbosch died 24 September 1763  married 12 August 1731 Drakenstein Pieter van der Merwe died circa 1738 Cicilia Jansen 1715-1774 born 1715 baptized 21 April 1715, Drakenstein died 20 July 1774, Waveren  married Isaac van der Merwe 30 died 1777 Willem Janse van Rensburg 1717-1746 born 1717 baptized 21 November 1717, Drakenstein died 21 July 1746, in the Bokkeveld  married 2 July 1740 Drakenstein Anna Sophia Burger 31 died 1801 Claas Jansz van Rensburg 32 born 1720 born 1720 33 baptized 31 March 1720, Drakenstein 34 Hendrik Jansz van Rensburg 35 born 1723 born 1723 36 baptized 12 September 1723, Drakenstein 37 Sophia Jansz van Rensburg 38 born 1725 born 1725 39 baptized 23 December 1725, Drakenstein 40  married David van der Merwe 41 Notes: He is mentioned as proposed executor in the codicil to her will dated 25th July 1777 by Maria van Staden.

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