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Maerten Slabbert

Floris Slabbert 1 farmer (1716) 2 of Contermans Kloof, Tijgersberg 3 born 1656 baptized 7 October 1656, Aagtekerke, Zeeland 4 died circa 1732, (possibly - based on Inventory receipt) 5 will dated 21 October 1716 6 and filed 4 November 1730 Notes: The children are given here in the order which seems logical. We lack baptismal information only for Johanna and Jasper, but Johanna was married on 2nd April 1702 at Stellenbosch, and Jasper's first child was baptised 30th July 1713, so that placing them second and third seems reasonable. The Slabbert family travelled out from Vlissingen in Zeeland to the Cape on the ship the 'Sion' which left Wielingen (the roadstead south of Vlissingen) on route to Ceylon on 19th May 1699, arriving at Cape Town on 27th October 1699 (notes). They are noted in the membership register of the church at Stellenbosch, the date being probably between 1698 and June 1700, and then on the 24th Dec. 1704, Floris presented his 'attestaat' to the church at Cape Town. On 30th March 1713, in reply to a letter from his brother, Pieter Slabber, Floris wrote to his brothers still living in Westkapelle, Walcheren, to say that, in the event of the death of his father-in-law that anything due to him and his wife, they gave to his brother Jeremias Slabbert. When he made his will in October 1716 he was described as confined to bed with a broken leg. The document I have referred to as the Estate Accounts of Floris Slabbert is a single page filed among the Estate Inventories of 1727-1731, but it is not an inventory, rather a receipt of payment signed by the heirs, and no date is preserved. (MOOC 8/5,64)

married 15 April 1684 at Aagtekerke, Zeeland 7 Huijbregtje Jasperz died before 1730

Neeltje b.1685 children Jannetje Jasper d.bef.1764 Lijsbeth 1691 - c1771 children Maerten b.1694 Maerten 1696 - c1713 Maatje 1698 - 1774 children Pieter 1701 - 1764 Gideon b.1706

children of Floris and Huijbregtje Slabbert Neeltje Slabbert born 1685 born 1685, Meliskerke baptized 29 April 1685, Meliskerke, Walcheren, Zeeland  married 21 November 1700 Cape Town Robbert Robbertsz Brand died before 1730 quartermaster in the employ of the Dutch East India Company (1699) Jannetje Slabbert 8 born Zeeland 9 Notes: no baptism found  married 2 April 1702 Stellenbosch 11 Pieter Andries Sax 10 died before 1727 Jasper Slabbert died before 1764 born Middelburg 12 died before 1764 13 Notes: In 1745 he petitioned the Council of Policy for the freehold of the cattle farm which he currently held on loan, called 'Thee Fontein', near the Uylekraal, towards Swartland. (from: H.C.V.Leibbrandt, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Requesten (Memorials) volume 3, page 1065) The inventory, dated September 1764, drawn up after the death of Pieter Slabbert, his brother, names him as the late Jasper Slabbert, and give his surviving heirs as his children Maarten Slabbert, Johannes Slabbert, Maria Slabbert the wife of Theunis Scalkwijk and the children of his daughter Huijbregtje Slabbert, deceased wife of Gerrit Cloete Jacobsz:  married 26 June 1712 Cape Town 15 Johanna Meijburg 14 born circa 1693, at the Cape 16 Lijsbeth Slabbert 1691-circa 1771 born 1691, Middelburg, Zeeland baptized 15 April 1691, Meliskerke, Walcheren, Zeeland died circa October 1771  married 3 March 1709 Cape Town Jacobus Smit 17 born circa 1693 farmer of Uylekraal, Swartland Maerten Slabbert born 1694 born 1694 18 baptized 24 October 1694, Meliskerke 19 Notes: He presumably died before the birth of his brother also named Maarten who was baptised July 22, 1696 at Meliskerke. Maerten Slabbert 1696-circa 1713 born 1696 20 baptized 22 July 1696, Meliskerke 21 died circa 1713 buried 1713, Stellenbosch 22 Notes: There is no mention of him in the Distribution Receipt of the estate of the deceased Floris Slabbert, but there is a record of burial fees having been paid for a Maarten Slabbert to the Stellenbosch Congregation in 1713, the year that many people died at the Cape during the smallpox epidemic. (MOOC 8/5, 64 - no date, but filed with other inventories of 1727-31) (Verlore Dokumentasie oor die Gemeente Stellenbosch van 1689 tot 1725, by Ockert Malan, in Capensis ... ) Maatje Slabbert 1698-1774 born 1698, Meliskerke baptized 11 April 1698, Meliskerke died 22 October 1774, Cape Town  married 14 March 1717 Cape Town Johannes Visser 23 1689-circa 1752 farmer Pieter Slabbert 1701-1764 born 1701, Cape Town 24 baptized 21 August 1701, Cape Town 25 died 30 May 1764, Swartland 26 Notes: He made his profession of belief to become a member of the Cape Town NG Church on 23 November 1722, and his witness was his father, Floris Slabbert. He was one of the witnesses to the will of Elisabeth Slabbert and Jacobus Smit on 13th August 1730. He would appear to have left no children since his estate was divided up amongst his brothers and sisters. Gideon Slabbert born 1706 born 1706, Cape Town 27 baptized 31 January 1706, Cape Town 28 Notes: He made his profession of belief to become a member of the Cape Town NG Church on 1 November 1723, with Floris Slabbert, his father, as his witness.  married 7 March 1728 Drakenstein 29 Francina Carstens died circa 1745

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