Adriana (Tol) Smit (bef. 1656 - aft. 1722)

Born before 16 Jul 1656 in Delft, Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Wife of Johannes Smit — married 4 Jan 1682 in Delft, Holland, Nederland

Wife of Andreas (Cuyper) Kuiper — married 11 Jan 1705 in Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop

Descendants

Died after 1722 after age 65 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Name

Adriana Unknown ... ^[1]

Adriana /Tol/^[2]

Given Name: Adriana^[2]

Surname: Tol^[2]

Married Name: Smit (an explicit Surname and Married Name were both found.)^[2]

Birth

Date: 1649 ^[3]

Date: Adriana Tol was born before 1656.^[4] 1656 ^[2] / JUL 1656^[5] in 1670. ^[6][7]

Place: Delft, Netherlands ^[2][5]

Baptism

Date: 29 JUL 1649 ^{[3][8] [9]}

Date: 16 JUL 1656 ^[2][5][9]

Place: Nieuwe Kerk, Delft ^[2] Zuid-Holland^[8] Netherlands^[5]

Marriage

Husband: Jan Smit^[2]

Wife: Adriana Tol^[2]

Child: Jacobus Smit^[2]

Child: Johannis Smit^[2]

Child: Christoffel Smit^[2]

Child: Hilletje Smit^[2]

Child: Francois Smit^[2]

Child: Alewijn Smit de oude^[2]

Date: 27 Dec 1681 or 4 Jan 1682

Place: Nieuwe Kerk, Delft or Schipluiden ( Esme Pieterse.

Death

Date: 1652 ^[3]

Date: 1722, aged 72-73^[10]

Date: 15 FEB 1729^[5]

Place: Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa^[5]

Place: Oude Kerk, Delft ^[3]

Place: Delft ^[2]

Events

On the origins of Adriana Tol and Jan Smit, resident at the Cape of Good Hope from about 1688.

Adriana Tol was married at Stellenbosch on 11th January 1705. In the marriage register she is described as Adriana Tol van Delft Wede. She and Jan Smit had had several children baptised at the Cape between 1688 and 1700 and he had presumably died by this date.^[2]

The lead to Delft has been followed up before, and there is an article in Familia by Jean M. Schönnberg (Familia vol 15, no.2, 1982, p. 50-51) which lists three baptisms and brief details of three marriages for the Tol family of Delft. Jean Schönnberg states that he/she traced these details on a recent (1982) trip to Salt Lake City and gives film references for some Delft church and marriage court records. From research that I have recently done and had done, it seems that the details as given are not entirely accurate and two of the marriages are wrongly attributed. I have, therefore, set out the newly established details of the Tol family of Delft and their connections.^[2]

The indexes to the Baptism, Marriage and Burial records of the City of Delft have recently been made available on the web site of the Gemeentearchief Delft, making it a good deal easier to check this information. I have spent a lot of time among these indexes working out a likely family tree for Adriana Tol, who did indeed appear among them, and have received copies of the more relevant church register pages.^[2]

Having constructed a conjectural family for Adriana Tol I then asked a husband and wife research team in the Netherlands, Family Affairs, to visit the Delft Archives on my behalf to see if any further documents, such as wills, Weeskamer records, etc could be found.^[2]

What I was really hoping for was some reference to 'my daughter A Tol, now resident at the Cape of Good Hope' but, so far, such positive evidence has not been found. A great deal of information has, nevertheless, come to light, and wills for several of the people concerned, as well as long and detailed Weeskamer records of the family of Adriana Tol, her mother and her brothers and sisters.^[2]

In my opininon the Tol family in Delft is now tolerable well proven and accounted for but I am still researching the Smit/Tol family at the Cape and am hoping to be able to find some more information in the records there when the research can be carried out for me, but the balance of liklihood seems to me to favour the theory that the two Adriana Tols, the one in Delft and the one at the Cape, are the same person.^[2]

My reasons:

1. Adriana Tol stated that she came from Delft. Tol is not a rare name in the Netherlands or in Delft, but from the records available to me, there would appear to have been only the one Tol family in Delft during the 17th Century.^[2]

2. The coincidence of names:

• a. Adriana Tol married to Jan/Johannes Smit in both places.
• b. The children's names:

at the Cape, Christoffel, Jacobus, Hulsie, Francois, Alewijn, Johanna

in Delft, Christoffel (earlier son of Jan Smit), Jacobus (Adriana Tol's father), Alewijn (her elder brother) (One must assume that Christoffel, Hulsie and Frans were names from Jan Smit's side of the family).^[2]

3. Dates: So far as I have been able to discover Adriana Tol does not appear in the Delft records after December 1685. All the reference works state that the Smit/Tol family was in the Cape from 1688 but so far I have not been able to find out on what this statement is based. Like so much else of the published works on South African genealogy (and there are a lot of them) many of these sorts of statement are copied and recopied but the original source reference is seldom copied with them. Certainly Christoffel Smit the son of Jan Smit, was baptised in Cape Town on 9 May 1688. The first mention of Adriana Tol that we have so far been able to find is that of the baptism of her son Jacobus Smit on 16 October 1689 in Stellenbosch.^[2]

Conclusion:

Tol is not a rare name in the Netherlands, but there would appear to have been only the one Tol family in Delft in the 17th Century. So, based on Adriana Tol's statement in 1705 that she came from Delft and the other rather slim circumstantial evidence presented above, I am assuming that Adriana Tol of the Cape of Good Hope is the same Adriana Tol who was baptised on 16 July 1656 in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft and married Johannes Smit at the same church on 27 December 1681.^[2]

If anyone has any evidence for or against this theory I would be very pleased indeed to have it. (Many thanks to researchers: André Kellerman, Graham Lloyd, Helena Liebenberg and Femke and Lars Roobol).^[2]

In the marriage entry in the Stellenbosch register for her later marriage to Andries Cuyper, she is described as being from or of Delft 'van Delft'. I have assumed that the Aryaentje Tol who was baptised on 16 July 1656 in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, is the same person as the Adriana Tol who, by 1688, was living in the Cape. I have not yet discovered any proof positive of this but for my reasoning see my notes.^[2]

On 22nd December 1685, named as Adriana Jacobsz. Tol, the wife of Johannes Smit, soldier, she appeared before the Delft Weeskamer and stated that she was now supported by her husband. She declared that her mother had raised and provided for her properly; she thanked her for her good care and freed her of any further obligation.^[2]

From 1692 through to 1695 she is listed in the muster rolls as living in Stellenbosch with Jan Smit, but from 1696 she is listed as his widow.^[2]

On the 29th June 1700, the Stellenbosch Church Meeting suspended her from church services for a year. The reason is not stated other than that she is admonished to live a better life. Unfortunately none of the earlier Stellenbosch Church Meeting minutes, which might have contained a previous warning, appear to have survived.^[2]

A year later, on the 28th March 1701, her suspension was continued.^[2][11]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Dirk Joseph Pauw, Jul 19, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32} Jun 1, 2011 Esme Pieterse.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Jun 1, 2011 by Esme Pieterse.
4. ↑ Entered by Anonymous Delport , Thursday, July 18, 2013.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
6. ↑ Entered by Lou Larney, Nov 12, 2012.
7. ↑ Unlikely date seeing the extensive research already done by Esme Pieterse unless there was another Adriana Tol in the Cape at that time. Philip van der Walt May 29, 2014.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Proofed to be incorrect (https://www.openarch.nl/show.php?archive=ade&identifier=242241c6-4026-11e5-b95e-876dbbebeae1&lang=en&six=6) Provided by Sharon Caldwell who wrote If the 16 July 1656 is correct then the Baptism on 29 July 1649 of Adriana Tol should possibly be removed or indicated as definitely incorrect. (https://www.openarch.nl/show.php?archive=ade&identifier=242241c6-4026-11e5-b95e-876dbbebeae1&lang=en&six=6) The baptism on 16 July 1656 Aryaentje Tol is the correct one (as concluded further down in the bio) for this profile (which also means spelling of preferred name should be changed?) I may be wrong but isn't Aryaentje the diminutive for Adriana? - in which case Adriana died and Aryaentje is the correct person for this profile. The older Adriana does not appear in the Weeskamer record which supports this theory.
10. ↑ Jul 27, 2013 by Paul du Toit.
11. ↑ See: Extract van het gepasseerde in die Kerkelyke Vergadering, gehouden aan Stellenbosch den 27 Sept. 1700. Geresolveerd om aanstaande Sondag, over veertien dagen, des H.H. Avondmaal te houden. In het leren bevonden en geresolveerd, dat Anna Maria Holst, haar dronkenschap zou scherpelyk voorgehouden worden, met bedryging, dat, indien volhard, haar te suspenderen, en 't Avondmaal te ontzeggen. Arriaantze Jans, over dronkenschap sou werden berispt. Wemmer Pasman en Cornelia Cempenaar, voor die laatste maal, ernstig zouden werden aangesproken over haar dronkenschap. Jan Janse Swart en zyne huisvrouw Grietze Clase Koen, over kwaad huishouden en dronkenschap gesuspendeerd tot beterschap toonen. Coenraad Cyffer, Jacobus van Driel en de vrouw van Andries de Noordman, aan te spreken. Aldus gedaan gen gepasseerd, dato als boven.

    Resolusie van 28 Maart 1701: "Is geresolveerd den 17 April den H.H. Avondmaal te houden. Wemmer Pasman en syn huis vrouw in 't suspens gecontinueerd. Arriantje Tol, in het suspens gecontinueerd. Jan Jansse Swart en Grietje Claasse Koen, in het suspens gecontinueerd. Aldus gedaan en gepasseerd in onze ordinaare Kerkelyke Vergaedering, dato als boven." Handtekeninge van Hercules van Loon, van der Byl TT, Jacob van der Heyde.

    In die voetnotas in Capensis word die volgende inligting verskaf oor die individûe:

    Anna Maria Holtst is waarskynlik die weduwee van Hans Jacob Huben/Huber.

    Arriaantze Jans is die vrou van Jan Smit, later x Andries Kuyper.

    Cornelia Cempenaar was die weduwee van Francois Villion; trou as weduwee met Wemmer Pasman.

    Jan Janse Swart was skynbaar afgedank as scriba (moontlik agv sy drankprobleem?)

    Andries de Noordman was ook bekend as Andries Olofssen/Oelofsen.

    Bronne (Sources):

    1. De Villiers en Pama
    2. Inligting van Jean le Roux op GenForum
    3. Capensis 4/99

    Saamgestel deur: A.M. van Rensburg. May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.

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