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Cornelia (Claasz) van Tonderen (1674 - bef. 1719)

Cornelia van Tonderen formerly Claasz aka Pyl, Cornelisse, Claassen, Claasen
Born in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
Daughter of and
Sister of [half], [half], , , , , , and
Wife of — married 16 Feb 1695 in Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
Wife of — married 17 Apr 1707 in Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , , , and
Died before before age 44 in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
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Contents

Biography

Birth

Date: ABT 1674 [1] / Cornelia was born in 1674 [2]

Baptism

Date: 18 NOV 1674 [3][4][5][6]
Place: Netherlands [4][7] - possibly [7] / Cape [Town], Dutch Reformed Church[5]
Child: Cornelia Claasz [5]
Father: Cornelis Claasz [5]
Mother: Catharina van Malbaar [5]
1674 Den 18 Novembr een dochtertje van Cornelis Claasz en Catharina van Malbaar gedoopte swartinne wiert genaamt Cornelia [5]

Marriage

Marriage 2
Date: 17 April 1707 [8]
Place: Stellenbosch, Cabo de Goede Hoop [8]
Groom: Adolf van Tonderen [8]
Bride: Cornelia Cornelisse (wedr wylen Abraham Bastiaanz Pyl) [8]
Note: He was also known as Reghardus Adolphus or variously spelt variants. From Council Resolution C51 of 21 Nov 1719 - "Abraham Bastiaansz. Pijl is overleden, dogh desselfs wede. hertrouwt met Reghardus Adolphus, die een plaats heeft gehad in 't Moddergat, dewelke onder October 1718 is vercogt..." [9]

Muster/Tax Rolls

Dec 1705 (Stellenbosch) - "Cornelia Cornelisse" with 6 sons and 1 daughter [10]
Dec 1706 (Stellenbosch) - "Cornelia C. . . . . . . . . . .sz Pijl" (Cornelia Cornelisse, wede. Abraham Bastiaansz Pijl) with 5 sons and 1 daughter [11][12]
Dec 1706 (Stellenbosch) - "Richardus Adolphus" [11]
Dec 1707 (Stellenbosch) - "Richardús Adolphús en vroúw Cornelia Cornelis" with 6 sons and 2 daughters [13]
30 Apr - 3 May 1717 (Stellenbosch) - "Regardús Adolphús en vroúw Cornelia Cornelisz:" with 3 sons and 1 daughter [14]
2-3 May 1719 (Stellenbosch) - ""Regardús Adolphús" with no spouse, 3 sons and 1 daughter [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: http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6906.htm [Mansell Upham] [16]

Death

Date: ca. 1744, Cape, [South Africa] Full [citation needed] Including who put this here & when ? / 1706, 1773 (found multiple copies of DEATH DATE. Using 1706 Array) [17] / WFT Est 1712-1772.[4] / between May 1717 when she was still listed on the Stellenbosch muster rolls with her husband and May 1719 when he was listed without her. [14][15]
Place: Western [17] Cape, [South Africa] [4]

Sources

  1. ↑ Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
  2. ↑ Entered by Pieter Meyer, Apr 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Apr 13, 2012 by Christo Cruywagen.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Source:
    • The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/searchBaptisms.pl : accessed Aug 16, 2015).Cape Archives Verbatim Copies VC 603, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, baptisms 1665 to 1696. page 11. 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. Seen and entered Aug 16,2015 by Susanna de Bruyn
  6. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ML-49TT-B?i=9&cat=2866837 Full [citation needed] Including who put this here & when ?
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Jan 8, 2012 by Charlene Deacon. Source: Van Tonder file at the end - pg 66
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Source: Seen & added 15 Sep 2022 by André Laubscher
  9. ↑ Source:
    • Resolution C51 - "Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope", Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa, Reference code: C. 51, pp. 53−65. Defunct website databases.tanap.net seen and entered by Gerhard Swart on 31 Aug 2023.
  10. ↑ Source:
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Source:
  12. ↑ Source:
  13. ↑ Source:
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Source:
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Source:
  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.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. Source: #S5 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
  • WikiTree profile Claasen-2 created through the import of AJBOTHA.ged on Aug 31, 2011 by Deon Botha.
  • WikiTree profile Cornelisse-14 through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
  • WikiTree profile Claasen-11 through the import of AJBOTHA.ged on Feb 25, 2012 by Deon Botha.
  • WikiTree profile Cornelisse-20 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
  • WikiTree profile Claasen-6 created through the import of Law family tree 2012.ged on Jan 8, 2012 by Charlene Deacon.
  • WikiTree profile Claassen-37 created through the import of JacobusStephanus(Oudtshoorn)GERICKE.ged on Apr 13, 2012 by Christo Cruywagen. Source: Title: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 Repository: Name: Family History Library Address: Address 1: 35 N West Temple Street Address 2: Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA




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Resolution C51 of 1719
Resolution C51 of 1719



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