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Hans Ras
circa 1636-1671
Trijntie Claas Oftings
circa 1641-1708
Claas Ras 1
farmer (1705) 2
of Stellenbosch 3
born 1666
baptized 12 September 1666, Cape Town 4
died circa 1713 5
Notes:
Claas Ras and Maria van Staden are listed together for the first
time in the Muster Rolls of 1696, as resident in Drakenstein.

married circa 1696 6

Maria van Staden
1678-circa 1723
of Weltevreden, Stellenbosch 7


Catharina
b.1697
children

Johannes
b.1698

Christian
1700 -
c1723

Maria
d.1734
children

Hendrik
b. c1709

Christina
b.1711

children of Claas Ras and Maria van Staden

Catharina Ras born 1697
baptized 27 June 1697, Cape Town
 married circa 1716

Warnar van den Brink born circa 1678

Johannes Ras 8 born 1698
born 1698 9
baptized 10 August 1698, Drakenstein 10

Christian Ras 1700-circa 1723
born 1700 11
baptized 4 July 1700, Drakenstein 12
died circa 1723, (?)

Notes: Christiaan Ras appears in 1719 as one of
the orphans whose inheritance is in the care of the
Cape Weeskamer, alongside Johannes, Maria and
Hendrik Ras, each being worth 300 gulden.

A Christiaan Ras appears once, in 1723, in the opgaaf
returns, just a man, his horse and his weapons, so
presumably a young man, but Christiaan is not listed
among the children of Maria Ras in the inventory drawn
up on the 12th July 1723.

Maria Ras died 1734
born Cape of Good Hope
died 2 May 1734
 married circa 1723 (or before)

Andries Krugel 13 circa 1675-1734
farmer (1713)
of the farm, 't Blomkooltje, Paarl
and by 1734 Weltevreden, Joostenberg

Hendrik Ras born circa 1709
born circa 1709 14
baptized 25 December 1709, Stellenbosch 15

Christina Ras born 1711
born 1711 16
baptized 20 September 1711, Stellenbosch 17

Notes: She does not appear in the 1718 Weeskamer
accounts of orphans in its care, so she had presumably
died before that date. (MOOC 18/2 Weeskamer Joernal)

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