Catrina (Lij) Bergh (bef. 1696)

Born before 2 Nov 1696 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

Ancestors

Wife of Martinus (Berg) Bergh — married 29 Aug 1719 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

Descendants

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Biography

Name

Catharina Leij ^[1]

Birth

Date: 18 AUG 1704 ^[1] / Before 09 Jan 1701 ^[2]

Place: Filsch, Rhineland, Prussia ^[1] / de Caep de Goede Hoop ^[2]

Baptism

Date: 09 Jan 1701

Event Place: Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town

Child: Catrina

Father: Michiel Lij

Mother: Engeltie Breda ^[2]

9 Jan: | van Michiel Lij en Engeltie Breda gent: - | Catrina ^[2]

Marriage

Date: 29 August 1719 ^[3] / 20 AUG 1719 ^[1]

Place: [Cape Town], Cabo de Goede Hoop [South Africa]^[3]

Groom: Martinus Berg^[3]

Bride: Catharina Leij^[3]

29 Augustii, Martinus Berg, van Cabo, jongm: en Catharina Leij, van d:o, jonge d:r.^[3]

Note - No image currently available^[3]

Biltong

28 March 1709: Start of biltong as we know it today? ... Swiss free-burgher Michiel Ley`s alternative recipe for salting meat adopted ... "Broad Council Meeting. Not one hardly offered himself for the supply of dried or smoked meat. Only 2,500 or 3,000 Ibs. were offered - a quantity very little among so many vessels. The necessity of supplying the ships properly is re-iterated. Governor & flag officers inspect some meat salted 8 days ago by the contractor Husing. The lean parts were found good, but the thick parts already spoiling. ^[4]

Decided that the treat should first lie some days in the brine to draw out the blood, & after that placed in new salt. That was not the idea of Husing but of his fellow-contractor Michiel Ley. The former believed that the meat should be left in its first salt & not pickled beforehand; And was prepared to guarantee supply remaining good. Decided, however, to adopt the plan of double salting, recommended by Ley; Husing ordered to supply in that manner; "Meervliet" having brought sufficient casks for the purpose. Ley to supply his share according to his plan. Company to supply the pepper. ^[4]

Decided to take over for the Company, the meat already salted by Husing. The good portions to be distributed among the crews, & the tainted ones among the slaves ... [Journal] ^[4]

Michiel LEY {Löw} (1670-1716) (from Basel in Switzerland) - likely same person as Hans Michiel LEY born Benken BL 18 December 1670 [Loew pronounced "Ley"]), son of Ulrich Löw & Katharina Schwarz ... ^[4]

Arrives (1696) as soldier thereafter master butcher; Likely biologically fathers illegitimate daughter by Company Slave Lodge matres Armozijn Claes: van de Caep, Machteld / Magdalena Ley halfslag baptized (26 August 1697) ... ^[4]

Marries (8 December 1697 Engeltje Breda (from Delft, Holland) daughter of Nikolaas Breda & Aagje Keisers - her mother is recorded (1690) having a kindergarten in Cape Town ... ^[4]

Buys (1699) house in Eerste Dwars Street from Hans Hendrik Smit ... ^[4]

Contracts as Company’s Butcher with Company to loan a soldier to work for him; after expiry of 5-year contract, continues as free-master butcher always employing at least 1 soldier loaned from the Castle & supplying meat to public & Company by buying animals from the farmers ... ^[4]

Contracts (1708) with 3 others to press grapes harvested by Company’s servants on the farm "Vergelegen" (present day Somerset West) for a half share of the produce ... ^[4]

Deacon of Groote Kerk (1703) & Orphan Master (1707); nurses (1701) Hans Jacob Loets (from Schaffhausen) when very sick & lends money to compatriot Jan Oberholster (from Zurich) ... ^[4]

With Cape-born mestiço Willem Basson, compatriot Jan Oberholster & Anthony Abrahamsz: (dies 1718), contracts to supply all the meat required by the Company - price Company prescribed for purchasing animals is however so unfavourable to farmers who refuse to sell that Adam Tas collects signatures petitioning against the governor, citing also other grievances & this is sent to Holland while Van der Stel draws up a Defence which his faithfuls sign - amongst them Ley & Oberholster resulting in ^[4]:

1. 4 partners having meat contract cancelled at their request (taken over by Claas Hendriksz: Diepenouw),
2. Adam Tas being incarcerated in the Castle’s dungeon &
3. Van der Stel being replaced (1708) ...

At this time 4 of his slaves flee in an attempt to return to Madagascar but are recaptured after committing murders & robberies, & executed with great cruelty ... ^[4]

Falls into disfavour with new Governor Louis van Assenburgh, who places him under arrest (1709) in the Castle releasing him only after he apologises ... ^[4]

Census (1709) records him with wife, 3 sons & 1 daughter, 2 servants, 14 slaves, 4 horses, 30 head of cattle, 300 sheep & 2 pigs, 6 000 vines & 2 leaguers of wine having purchased farm "Welgemeent" from Kotzé-108|Johann (Jan) Cotze / Kotze (from Königstein [Saxony]) comprising 3,95 hectares SE of Table Mountain; buys (1710) a 2nd house in Table Valley ... ^[4]

Elected (7 October 1715) Burgher Lieutenant; ^[4]

dies Cape of Good Hope (1716) ... ^[4]

Widow hires Swiss soldier Johannes Lister (from Basel) as knecht ... ^[4]

5 children baptised of whom 3 reach adulthood [Mansell Upham] ^[4]:

1. Nicolaas Ley born December 1698; dies in infancy
2. Catharine Ley born c. 1701 ante 1709 marries Martinus Bergh, 9th child of Sweded Oloff Bergh (from Gothenburg), leader of expedition to Namaqualand (1682-83) & Cape-born mestiça Anna de Coningh
3. Nicolaas Ley baptised 25 November 1703 merchant & 2nd Commissioner for Slave Trade at Madagascar marries Jacoba Christina de Wet daughter of Cape-born Christina Bergh & Jacobus de Wet (from Amsterdam), step-daughter of Swede Matthias Bergstedt (from Stockholm) & granddaughter of Cape-born mestiça Anna de Coningh & Swede Oloff Bergh (from Gothenburg)
4. Johannes Ley baptised 25 April 1706 Company clerk & Commissioner of Civil & Marriage Affairs marries Anna Thibault daughter of Daniel Thibault (from Amsterdam) & Cape-born Aletta de Beer
5. Jacobus Ley baptised 8 December 1709, probably dies in infancy.

Sources

• This person was created through the import of Bergh_2010-09-14.ged on 15 September 2010 by Anton Bergh 29 January 2011.

• WikiTree profile Ley-101 through the import of ML Nuttall.ged on Mar 13, 2013 by Michael Nuttall.

• WikiTree profile Ley-47 created through the import of Haye-1_2011-08-17.ged on Aug 17, 2011 by Jesse Haye.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} 15 September 2010 by Anton Bergh 29 January 2011.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11116-194446-23?cc=1478678 : 21 May 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Cape Town > Baptisms 1695-1712 > image 11 of 84; State Archives, Cape Province. Seen and entered by Dirk le Roux on Sep 14, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Source :
   • The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical record transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 2 Feb 2014), Cape Town Marriages 1719, Page 8; citing Cape Archives Verbatim copies document VC 621 - Cape Town marriages and memberships 1713-1756, which is a photocopy of the original register, now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1-13/1. This photocopy was 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 (VC series) and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series). The marriages cover pages 1 through 95 of this register.
   Seen & added 18 August 2021 by André Laubscher
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17} Source: First Fifity Years - collating Cape of Good Hope records Community Page: March 28, 2016 8:31 am 2016 Seen and added by Philip van der Walt March 28, 2016.