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Marten Jans van Staden 1 1675 to 1685 gardner at Werkhoven and Doorn, Utrecht from 1687 farmer of Bloemendal, Drakenstein 2 born circa 1638, Haarlem 3 died 7 November 1716 4 Notes: In 1670, when he married at Utrecht, the marriage entry indicates that he had previously lived at Loenen. Between 1675 and 1680 he lived at Werkhoven, near Utrecht, and from 1681 to 1685 at Doorn, a nearby village, where he worked as gardener at the Huis te Doorn, at that time apparently belonging to Caius Laurentius Barthram, son of the Count of Broeckdorf. (http://home.planet.nl/~taco.hermans/doorn2.htm) He and his wife, Caterina Willemsz, are first found listed among the free settleers at the Cape in the muster rolls of 1688. There is no muster roll for 1687, but since he was granted the farm, Bloemendal, in the Drakenstein district in 1687 (J.G. le Roux et al. Bewaarders van Ons Erfenis, deel 3) that seems their likely year of arrival. On the 31st January 1688 he was granted permission by the Burger Raad (Burger Council) of the Cape to transfer from the Cape area to go to live at Drakenstein and the move was apparently made on the 10th December 1688, judging from the statement at the bottom of this attestation: 'fiat naer Drakensteijn' with that date and the signature of Simon van der Stel. (1 STB 15/2, Attestatien) In 1697 he was elected one of the Heemraden (councillors) for the district of Drakenstein. (Resolutions of the Council of Policy, C. 23, pp. 5-10. from the TANAP web site) His children are given as listed in the will, drawn up jointly with his wife on 31st July, 1705, and in the church registers of Werkhoven and Doorn. I have some notes on the place of origin of the Van Staden Family and the sources of that information. My thanks to Frank Witschge of Almere in the Netherlands for bringing them to my attention.

married (1) 2 November 1670 at Domkerk, Utrecht 5 Maria Ariens van Amerongen died circa 1677

Martinus 1675 - 1707 children

married (2) 25 November 1677 at Werkhoven, Utrecht 7 Catharina Willemsz circa 1647-1717

Maria 1678 - c1723 children Maurits Louis 1680 - c1713 children Jan 1681 - c1714 Caspara 1683 - c1713 Willem 1685 - bef.1741 children Lijsbet c1690 - c1714 children Pieternella c1692 - c1739

children of Marten Jans van Staden and Maria Ariens van Amerongen Martinus van Staden 1675-1707 born 1675 baptized 6 June 1675, Werkhoven, Utrecht died between September and December 1707  married circa 1701 (probably at Drakenstein) Aletta van der Merwe 6 circa 1687-circa 1729 children of Marten Jans van Staden and Catharina Willemsz Maria van Staden 1678-circa 1723 born 1678 baptized 22 December 1678, Werkhoven died circa 7 July 1723  married (1) circa 1696 Claas Ras 8 1666-circa 1713 farmer (1705) of Stellenbosch  married (2) 4 February 1714 Stellenbosch Lambert Engels 9 died circa 1722 Maurits Louis van Staden 1680-circa 1713 born 1680 baptized 11 July 1680, Werkhoven died circa 1713  married 13 April 1710 Stellenbosch Johanna van den Bosch 10 circa 1690-circa 1747 of Natte Valleij, Drakenstein Jan van Staden 11 1681-circa 1714 born 1681 12 baptized 10 November 1681, Doorn, near Utrecht 13 died circa 1714 14 Caspara van Staden 1683-circa 1713 born 1683 15 baptized 27 May 1683, Doorn, near Utrecht 16 died circa 1713 17 Notes: She appears twice as a baptismal witness in the registers of the church at Cape Town, once on the 24th April 1701 and again on 10th May 1705. On both occasions she is partnered with Pieter Grijs. In 1703 they appear as a couple on the muster rolls and thus continue from year to year until, in 1713 Pieter Grijp appears on his own.  married  19 Pieter Grijp 18 born Middelburg 20 Notes: He was a cadet in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, listed as such in the muster roll of 1696, but by May 1699, he had become a freeman. (Leibbrandt, Letters Dispatched, 1695-1708, p. 117) His name appears in the muster rolls (transcripts of transcripts) and Stellenbosch Notarial Papers (1711) as Pieter Grijp, but in the church registers as Pieter Grijs. Willem van Staden 1685-before 1741 born 1685, Utrecht baptized 15 March 1685, Doorn, near Utrecht died before 1741  married 14 February 1717 Drakenstein Cornelia Venter 21 died circa 1746 of De Seeven Rivieren, Banghoek, Stellenbsoch Lijsbet van Staden circa 1690-circa 1714 born circa 1690 died circa February 1714, (assumed - date of inventory)  married circa 1707 Matthijs Krugel 22 died circa 1731 of Stellengift and De Lange Valleij both in Drakenstein Pieternella van Staden circa 1692-circa 1739 born circa 1692, at the Cape 23 died circa 1739, (assumed - date of inventory) 24 Notes: According to the inventory drawn up after her death she left 7 children: Willem (25), Jochem (22), Claas (16) and Martinus (13) Prinsloo, the sons of Claas Prinsloo, and Johannes Ludovicus (10) , Maria Petronella (8) and David (4) Jordaan, the children of her second husband, Louis Jordaan. Presumably her daugher, Alletta Catharina Prinsloo, listed in the 1727 inventory of Claas Prinsloo, had died before 1739.  married (1) 1 December 1709 Cape Town 26 Claas Prinsloo 25 died 1727 farmer 27 of the farm called Schoonpoort, situated at De Groote Paardeberg born at the Cape 28 died 1727, (assumed - date of inventory) 29  married (2) 11 April 1728 Drakenstein 31 Louis Jordaan 30

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