Adriaentje (Gabrielsz) Helm (bef. 1667)

Born before 13 Nov 1667 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

Wife of Hendrick (Speldenbergh) Speldenberg — married 1679 in de facto relationship, de Caep de Goede Hoop

Wife of Pieter Gerritsz (Gerrits) Boshouwer — married 4 Jul 1683 in N.G. Church, de Caep de Goede Hoop

Wife of Conrad Helm — married 13 Feb 1701 in Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in de Caep de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Name

Adriaentje Gabrielsz ^[1] / Annetjie Gabriels ^[2][3][4] / Arriaanje Van Cathryn v.d. Kaap ^[5] / Arriaantjie van Cathryn van die Kaap Boshouwer ^[6] / Arriaanje van Cathryn Helm ^[7]

Birth

Date: Adriaantje Gabrielsz before 13 November 1667. ^[3][7]

Place: [Kaapstad] ^[1] / de Caep de Goede Hoop. ^[3] / [Cape Town] ^[7]

Baptism

Date: 13 Nov 1662 ^[5][1]

Dito (13 November)

een slaevinne kint van den E. H. Comman: Quael-bergen, wiert genaemt Adriaentje de moeder Catharyn

tot getuyge stont in persoon van de Juffr. Quaelbergen

haer slaevinne ^[8]

Adriaentje NN was baptized on 13 November 1667 at Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. Juffrouw PN Quaelbergen is named in the baptism record of Adriaentje NN but it suggests that she was represented by her unnamed slave. ^[9][1]

Marriage / Relationships

De facto Relationship

Circa 1679 Adriaantje Gabrielsz and Hendrick Speldenbergh were in a de facto relationship. ^[9]

Marriage 1

She married Pieter Boshouwer on 4 July 1683 at Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. ^[10][9]

Marriage 2

She married Coert Helm on 13 February 1701 at Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop. ^[9]

Date: 12 February 1701^[11]

Place: Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony [South Africa]^[11]

Groom: Coenraad Helm (van Minden)^[11]

Bride: Adriaantie Gabriels (van [Caab] wed^r van Pieter Gerritse Boshouwer)^[11]

Children

Family 1 ^[9]: Hendrick Speldenbergh ; Child: •Elsie Speldenbergh+6 b. 26 Nov 1679

Family 2 ^[9]: Pieter Boshouwer b. c 1660, d. b 1701 ; Children:

•Gerbrecht Boshouwer+14 b. b 15 Oct 1684, d. May 1772

•Gerrit Boshouwer b. b 29 Nov 1686

•Theunis Boshouwer b. b 10 Apr 1689

•Johannes Boshouwer b. b 17 Nov 1691

•Cornelis Boshouwer b. b 25 Jan 1694

•Geertruy Boshouwer b. c 1696

•Adriana Boshouwer

Family 3 ^[9]: Coert Helm b. c 1666 ; Children:

•Hendrik Helm b. b 24 Sep 1702

•Gerrit Helm b. b 10 Apr 1705 ^[9][12]

Events

Adriaantje Gabrielsz was born in bondage, before 13 November 1667, and was owned by Commandeur Cornelis van Quaelbergen in de Caep de Goede Hoop. ^[3][9]

Catharina (Katrijn van Malabar) from Malabaar had a child Arriaantje (Gabrielsz) van de Caep (baptised 15 Nov, 1662 Caep de Goede Hoop) of which Cornelis (Claasz) Claassen (aka Kees de Boer) whom she later married, was the stepfather. This child was known as Adriana Gabrielse van de Kaap (also known as Adriaentje Claassen). Adriana Gabrielse van de Kaap had an illegitimate child with Hendrik Speldenberg. Her daughter Elsje Speldenberg was baptised 26 November 1679. Adriana later married Pieter Boshouwer on 9 July 1683. She became the stammoeder of the Bezuidenhouts and the van Locherenbergs. ^[13] (Note: "Direct matrilineal descendants of these two women have tested for different mtDNA haplogroups. The suggestion now is that Adriaantje Gabrielsz was *not* the daughter of Catharina van Malabar." Citing Delia Robinson on Adriaantje Gabrielsz Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Sept 1, 2016.)

Step-father: Cornelis Claasz b. c 1650, d. c 1688. Mother: Catharina van Malabar1 b. c 1637. ^[9]

Father-Candidate: Corporael Gabriel Joosten b. c 1640; this candidate relationship is offered based on fact that a witness at the baptism of Adriaantje's brother, Louwijs in 1663, was Gabriel Joosten and that this child came to be known as Adriaantje Gabrielsz - suggesting her father was named Gabriel ^[9]

Pieter Boshouwer, ook Pieter Gerritse genoem x Kaapstad 9.7.1683 Arriaanje van Cathryn = Kaapstad 13.11.1662, stiefdogter van Kees de Boer (sy xx Coert Helm). Her surname is a reference to her mother's place of origin who was a slave from Malabar. Source: eSAGI CD 3.50^[14][15]

Unruly Family Affairs

Kees Claasz (de Boer) & his Indian ex-slave wife , the gedoopte swartinne Catrijn (Catharina van Malabar), are 2 of the more interesting personalities inhabiting the early colonial Cape settlement & 1st to inhabit the newly found colony at Stellenbosch. Notwithstanding their frequent brushes with the law, they appear to play an important community role at Moddergat which later becomes an important ‘Coloured’ farming settlement & mission station outside of Stellenbosch. Their descendants in the female line ramify dramatically in the colonial community becoming the founding mothers of various whole family clans: Bezuidenhout, Van Locherenberg, Bronkhorst, Gerrits, Pyl, Rigt, Willemse, Kemp & Franke. The family is seldom without controversy. Their surviving daughters all lead eventful lives:

• Adriaentje has an illegitimate child by one Hendrik Speldenberg.

• Cornelia drives her husband Abraham Bastiaansz: Pyl to take his own life by slitting his throat.

• Aeltje, after her husband Heinrich Jansen Heyder is convicted for assaulting a ‘Hottentot’ named Lucifer, seeks succour as concubine to the soon-to-be murdered Jacobus van den Berg which murder takes place in the house of her sister Catharina.

• Maria dumps her Frisian husband Gerrit Willemse permitting her socially misfit free-black paramour Isaac Pietersz: van de Caab to remove her undesirable spouse by dragging him by the hair out of his own home to become a vagabond ... ^[16]

For more information about this family click the following link: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Cornelis Claasz [Mansell Upham] ^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} WikiTree profile Gabrielsz-1 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
2. ↑ WikiTree profile Gabriels-5 created through the import of My Family.Pretorius.Van_Wyk.DeWaal.Potgieter.2011.ged on Sep 19, 2011 by Judy Potgieter.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} WikiTree profile Gabrielsz-2 created by Pieter Meyer 20 May 2013.
   • Source: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Adriaantje Gabrielsz
4. ↑ A.M. van Rensburg. My Genetic Enrichment : Slaves at the Cape, South Africa Seen and added by Philip van der Walt 14/12/2013.
   • eSAGI CD 3.50
   • www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk

   • Webpage Adriaantje Gabrielsz Ball Family Records
   • Webpage Coert Helm Ball Family Records
   • Webpage Hendrick Speldenbergh Ball Family Records
   • Webpage Cornelis Claasz (Kees de Boer) Ball Family Records
   • Webpage Cornelia Cornelisse Ball Family Records

   • Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: ao' 1683
   • Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms (Catrina dogter van Abram Bastijaans de moeder Cornelia Cornelisz is gedoopt dr 16 Novembr 1692 als getùijge Pietter Gerrits met zijn vroùw.)
   • Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms (Ariaantie; dogter van Caspar Gerritsz, d'Moeder Elsje Speldenbergh, getuygen Robbert Jansen en Ariaantie Gabriels. (hier vind ik geen datum by) [DR: between 26th Feb 1702 and 1 Octob 1702].
   • J.A. Heese & R.T.J. Lombard, South African Genealogies 1 A-C, HSRC SA Genealogies (Pretoria: Institute for Historical Research, Division Genealogical Research, Pretoria, 1986, 1989), ISBN 0-620-23962-X, p. 348 ; p. 156.Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 1.

   Acknowledgments: Special thanks to:

   • E.J. van der Walt (Medeouteur van: "Die familie Van der Walt in Suid-Afrika". Saamgestel deur C.M. van der Walt, E.J. van der Walt, T.S.P. van der Walt. Geredigeer deur E.P. Jooste en I. Groesbeek. EP Genealogie Publikasie Nr. 31 RGN, Pretoria, 1989.) for bringing under my attention through his publications this remarkable period in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony.
   • The late C.M. van der Walt for bringing the following source under my attention: A.M. van Rensburg. My Genetic Enrichment : Slaves at the Cape, South Africa

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} WikiTree profiles profile Van Cathryn-1 & VAN CATHRYN v.d. Kaap-1 was created on 12 September 2012 and 20 July 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
6. ↑ WikiTree profile Van die Kaap-6 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} WikiTree profile Van Cathryn-2 created by Van_der_Schyff-551 1 September 2016. {Included the following duplicate data: Stiefdogter van Kees de Boer Sy xx Coert Helm.}
   • Source: SAG VOL 1
8. ↑ The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 11 Aug 2016), "Cape Town Baptisms 1665-1695 (1667)", baptism entry for Adriaentje, 13 November 1667, p. 4; citing Cape Archives Verbatim Copies VC 603, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk. Original registers are located in the NG Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch as G1 1/1. VC 603 is a photocopy made during the 1980s of the original, made for the Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a copy was donated to the South African Archives, a copy going to the Cape Town repository and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series). The original register is now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1 1/1. The transcription was originally made in 2006 by Richard Ball. Corrections were received from Delia Robertson and Alwyn Smit and Corney Keller had now completely revised and amended the original transcript (February 2012). Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Aug 11, 2016.
9. ↑ ^{9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10} Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Adriaantje Gabrielsz Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Dec 14, 2013.
10. ↑ Pieter Gerrits zoo, Jonghman, vryburgh en Aedriantie stiefdogter van Kees de boer, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar).
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3} Source :
    • Marriage Register - "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LX3-KW8?cc=1478678&wc=M6GW-YM9%3A49605401%2C49605402%2C50282101%2C50492501 : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Stellenbosch > Marriages 1700-1788 > image 2 of 39; State Archives, Cape Province.
    Seen & added 16 Oct 2022 by André Laubscher.
12. ↑ Another source [M. Upham, "Claas van Malabar" in N. Claassen, & G.H. Claassen, Die Claas(s)en afstammelinge in Suid-Afrika, Centurion, Outeurs, 2001.] wrongly gives the marriage date to Adriaentje van Catrijn as July 9, 1683 [according to the same source he only arrived in the Cape in 1686], but does provide the date of baptisms [birth dates perhaps?] for both children: Hendrik Sep 24, 1702 and Gerrit Apr 10, 1705. Source: http://www.stamouers.com/index.php/stamouers/surnames-h-to-j/207-helm-coert- (seen Feb 1, 2014).
13. ↑ Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Adriaantje Gabrielsz Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Dec 14, 2013.
14. ↑ SAG 1 bl 348. Pieter Gerrits zoo, Jonghman, vryburgh en Aedriantie stiefdogter van Kees de boer, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar).
15. ↑ For a detailed analysis of her ancestry and partners, see: The Greeff Family Genealogy Pages
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1} Source: First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: July 14 at 2:09am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Jul 16, 2015.

See also:

• FamilySearch Profile - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LY5M-9YK ; Added by Shaun Wallace on 23 May 2021.