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Hans Christoffel Snijman (abt. 1645 - abt. 1668)

Hans Christoffel Snijman aka Snyman, Snijder, Schneider
Born about in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Holy Roman Empiremap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 23 in Robben Island, Cabo de Goede Hoopmap
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Biography

Name

Hans Christoph Snijder [1]
Hans Christoffel Snyman [2]
First name variants: Christoffel / Christophv [2]
LNAB & Variants: Schneider / Snijder / Snijman / Snyman [2]

Birth

Date: c.1630 [3]
Date: Between 1634-1645 (Imported 1634 from Birth Date and marked as uncertain.)[4]
Date: 1645-1668 [1]
Hans Christoffel was born about 1640 [5]
Date: c.1645 [6] [7]
Place: Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland [2]Heidelberg, Duitsland [4]
Place: Heidelberg, Palatinate, Germany [6]

Occupation

Soldaat aan die Kaap (Soldier, German soldier) [2] [3]

Death

Date: Died c.1668 [2]
Note: Another source gives the date as c.1683 [8]
I suggest that c.1683 is a corruption from the fact that the mother of his son, Catharina van Paliacatte died in this year. [7]
Died Age 38 Years [citation needed]
Place: Robben Island, [Cape Town], Cabo de Goede Hoop [2]

Events

Hans Christoffel Snijder (Dutch version of Schneider) also known as Snijman from Heidelberg in the Palatinate, was a soldier in the VOC garrison, convicted and banished to Robben Island on 30th July 1667 for not standing guard. Instead he had been sleeping on a regular basis with Groote Catrijn, washerwomanto successive commanders in the laundry at the Fort. Thereafter, Snijders disappears from the records at the Cape. On instructions from the Council of India, Groote Catrijn was again pardoned. This pardon may be a reference to her being banished to the Cape for murdering her rapist, Claes van Malabar, in 1656 in Palicatta (Pulicat), India [7]
Cristoffel Snyman who was baptised on 09 March 1669 became the stamvader of the Snyman family in Southern Africa. [2]
03 October 1665
Soldiers Hans Christoffel Snijman (from Heidelberg [Palatinate]) & Deteloff Tim fight ... Snijman & Tim are convicted & sentenced. The Council of Justice is satisfied that Snijman antagonised & hit a fellow soldier Diedeloff Tim who retaliated by stabbing Snijman. Both Tim & Snijman are tried separately & punished. Tim is banished to Robben Island for six months retaining his wages, but forfeiting his daily allowance. He also has to pay his victim's medical costs and a fine of two months' salary to be forfeited to the fiscal. Snijman, in turn, is fined three reals-of-eight to be forfeited to the fiscal ... [Mansell Upham] [9]

Research Notes

Viking Blood at the Cape? DNA Evidence confirms European paternity of Christoffel Snijman van der Caep and debunks theory he was the son of Anthonij van Bengale, Delia Robertson [10]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schalk Pienaar 23 April 2014)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 31 August 2011 by Deon Botha
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Source: Web Site A M Van Rensburg URL: www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/4364/ April 2007 (Cris Waller 23 February 2016
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 19 July 2012 by Arrie Klopper
  5. ↑ Entered by Pieter Meyer 02 May 2013
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Source:
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Entered by Evan Snyman 12 September 2014
  8. ↑ [citation needed] Philip van der Walt 18 December 2013
  9. ↑ Source: First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: 3 Oct at 5:00 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt 04 October 2015
  10. ↑ Source:

Acknowledgments

  • WikiTree profile Snijman-1 created on 31 August 2011 by Deon Botha




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Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
Error database says:

Warning: Check the dates.

  1. A father's death date should not be more than nine months before one of his children's birth dates.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Bannink-13 Alta (Bannink) Bekker
Snyman-286 and Snijman-1 appear to represent the same person because: This is the same person
posted by Alta (Bannink) Bekker
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
A well researched profile will look something like this / 'n goed beargumenteerde profiel lyk so: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Du_Bois-12

(pas nadat al die ander stappe gevolg is).

posted by Philip van der Walt
Chapman-5484 Evan (Chapman) Snyman
Thank you. I think I fell into the trap that many novice genealogist do - becoming overexcited, and carried away - just today I was able to link Christoffel Snijman to Charlemagne!!! Wow! And then easy to lose sight of the need for detail with the ordinary people. Something I am coming to realise is that it is easier to find evidence for "greater" people. The search for details on 'less' significant figures can be difficult, but are important in linking time and peoples.
posted by Evan (Chapman) Snyman
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
[following from the box below] 4) We upload as much 'evidence' in the form of photo's / transcripts to the profile itself and a final LNAB is decided and the variations AKA'd 5) I send a mail to Liz with the full url and she Project Protect the Profile (which means that all the duplicate profiles will have to go into this target profile).

Keep in mind that I concurrently have to keep an eye on around at least 1000 profiles and merge proposals. All of them need to get to the stage of PPP first before we start creating narratives.

Narratives is in this project therefore only at the end of the research on the LNAB, when as much of the 'facts' have been collated.

Baie dankie vir jou inset Evan. Ek het gevra of hulle jou mede-manager wil maak van hierdie profiel.

groetnis,

Philip

posted by Philip van der Walt
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
One big, huge apology (askies) to Evan and a very big thank you. A few lessons I learned in editing this biography. I made a few errors myself (have corrected them now). As I wrote to Evan in a private mail: 1) We first collect all the data and information and bits from here and there, with a healthy amount of distrust - not all data is valid - nonetheless we collect it. 2) Then we create order in the bio and do it so that we know who did what when and if need be why - at this stage we do not yet wipe the junk from GEDCOM, just trim it slightly - it still holds clues. 3) We find the primary sources for the LNAB - we know that he came from the Palatinate and was probably called 'Schneider' - that would be the LNAB but finding a baptismal record might be impossible so we turn to the shipping lists as Evan already suggested (on the resources page of this project). Those names might be in Dutch but it will be the nearest best thing (of course we can a search in Germany as well).
posted by Philip van der Walt
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
Evan, the van Bengals, van Palliacates, van Kormandels should not be our priority now. There were more than one Catharina. It is tricky, let's first focus on those profiles that give us the most problems, i.e. the Huguenots. As the slaves go, the site below (Delia's) is the most authoritative, but still incomplete. Let us first please just find the most correct spelling for the le Roux, des Prez, etc. and then the rest will follow. What we need is to find evidence - records - photocopied or transcribed or citations. As for removing merge proposals in the comment boxes, no, not yet - it gives an indication of the time line of the merges and their proposals. What we need to do is first find ALL the data and not start interpreting and make hasty decisions. Please - this profile still has duplicates out there, as do the Catharina's.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Chapman-5484 Evan (Chapman) Snyman
Is there any way to find out what ship he was on if we know that he was born in Germany in 1645 and was a guard at the Fort in 1667?
posted by Evan (Chapman) Snyman
Chapman-5484 Evan (Chapman) Snyman
Definitely need to resolve the Catharina va Paliacatte / van Bengal issue. Data shows that there was only one slave Catharina at the Cape at that time.
posted by Evan (Chapman) Snyman
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
Snijder-21 and Snijman-1 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same spouse(s)
posted by Philip van der Walt

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