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Heinrich Geijser (abt. 1730 - 1809)

Born about [uncertain] in Heiliges Römisches Reich
Died at about age 79 in Cape Colony
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Heinrich (Hendrik) Geijser aka Geyser, Gijser

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

Husband of — married 5 Aug 1759 in de Caep de Goede Hoop map icon at age 29

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Heinrich

Heinrich (Hendrik) Geijser aka Geyser, Gijser

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

Husband of Judik (de Wit) Geijser — married 5 Aug 1759 in de Caep de Goede Hoop map icon at age 29

Father of Dina (Geyser) Zimmerman , Dorothea (Geyser) Wolmarans , Frederik (Gijser) Geyser , Judith (Geyser) Kilian and Hendrina Dorothea (Geijser) Bester

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Biography

Name

  • Hendrik Geijser [1] / Hendrik Geyser [2] / Heinrich Geyser [3]

Birth

  • Date: Heinrich was born about 1730 [1] / after 1720 [3] / 1740. [2]

Marriage

  • Second Marriage
  • Date: x 5 Aug 1759 Hendrik GEYSER en Judith de Wit [1][4]
  • Place: de Caep de Goede Hoop[4]
    • 1759 den 5 Aúgústús is getroút hendrik gijser van Lemmerik onder Zylenmaker in dienst der E: Comp. wedúwenaar met Judith de wit van Cabo de goede hoop Jonge dogter [4]

Children

    • Name Dina Geyser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 04 Jan 1761
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Geyser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit [5]
    • Name Dorothea Geyser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 20 Mar 1763
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Geyser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit [6]
    • Name Hendrik Geÿser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 11 Dec 1768
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Geÿser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit Geÿser [7]
    • Name Fredrik Gijser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 30 Sep 1770
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Gijser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit [8]
    • Name Judith Gijser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 13 Dec 1772
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Gijser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit [9]
    • Name Jacobus Geijser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 28 Feb 1779
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Geijser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit [10]
    • Name Hendrina Dorothea Geijser
    • Event Type Baptism
    • Event Date 28 Feb 1779
    • Event Place de Caep de Goede Hoop
    • Father's Name Hendrik Geijser
    • Mother's Name Judith de Wit [11]

Death

  • Date: Heinrich passed away 26 Aug 1809. [3]

Possible Death Records

  • KAB MOOC 4/1805 GEIJSER, HENDRIK. [12]
  • KAB CJ 77 WESSELS, WESSEL. [13]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WikiTree profile Geijser-1 created by by Alta Bekker Dec 1, 2015. Sources:
    • 'Genealogies of Old Cape Families, by C.C. de Villiers, revised, augmented and rewritten by C. Pama, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1966. The original edition of 1894, compiled by G.M. Theal from the work of C.C. de Villiers Vol 2 Geijser p78 (www.eggsa.org).
    • South African Genealogies, compiled by J.A. Heese, edited by R.T.J. Lombard, GISA, 1986 SA Familieregisters Vol 1 A-C]. (www.eggsa.org)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 WikiTree profile Geyser-64 created by Lou Larney 27 September 2017. Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRLS-HVL : 5 August 2017), Dina Geyser, 04 Jan 1761, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 WiKiTree profile Geyser-69 created by Adriaan Roedolf Swanepoel 6 February 2018. Source:
    • Family tree
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Marriage: South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994, database with images, citing Digital film/folder number: 008039065_002_M96M-M3N; Image number: 69; Record number: 0, (FamilySearch Record: 6KTB-T6L6 : accessed 3 August 2025) FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSFQ-SR69, Hendrik Geijser marriage to Judith De Wit on 5 Aug 1759 in Cape Town, Cabo de Goede Hoop Added by Riël Smit on 2025-08-03.
  5. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRLS-HV2 : 5 August 2017), Judith de Wit in entry for Dina Geyser, 04 Jan 1761, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRLS-RBL : 5 August 2017), Judith De Wit in entry for Dorothea Geyser, 20 Mar 1763, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL3-N6Z : 5 August 2017), Judith De Wit Geÿser in entry for Hendrik Geÿser, 11 Dec 1768, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  8. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL9-PT2 : 5 August 2017), Judith De Wit in entry for Fredrik Gijser, 30 Sep 1770, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL9-VY8 : 5 August 2017), Judith de Wit in entry for Judith Gijser, 13 Dec 1772, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  10. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL9-TT9 : 5 August 2017), Judith de Wit in entry for Jacobus Geijser, 28 Feb 1779, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  11. ↑ Source:
    • "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRL9-TTQ : 5 August 2017), Judith de Wit in entry for Hendrina Dorothea Geijser, 28 Feb 1779, Baptism; Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, State Archives, Cape Province; FHL microfilm 2,214,107 Added by Alta Bekker Dec 13, 2017.
  12. ↑ Source:
  13. ↑ Source:
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Leon Endemann
Die presiese oorsprong en geboorteplek van die stamvader Heinrich Geijser/Geyser bly in omstredenheid gehul.

(1) Die gegewe plek van oorsprong "Lemmerik" volgens sy huweliksinskrywing op 5 Augustus 1759 in Kaapstad kan nêrens in Duitsland of trouens elders in Wes-Europa opgespoor word nie. (2) Die 1749 sensusopname van Lemmer in Friesland het niks opgelewer nie en desgelyks kon sy doopinskrywing na bewering ook nie in Emmerich am Rhein (Emmerik op Nederlands) gevind word nie. (Ongelukkig bestaan daar nie toegang op internet tot Emmerich se Lutherse of Gereformeerde kerkregisters nie en moes daar op die guns en goedertrou van 'n personeellid van die Evangeliese Kerkargief in Düsseldorf verlaat word). (3) Die Lutherse Kerkregisters van die gemeente in Lengerich/Westfalen asook die Gereformeerde Kerkregisters van die gemeente Lengerich/Emsland in die deelstaat Niedersachsen lewer ook geen doop vir 'n Heinrich/Hendrick Geijser/Geyser op nie. Derhalwe hou dr Johannes Hoge se bewering van Lengerich as plek van oorsprong ook nie water nie.

Leon Endemann

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Leon Endemann
Op aanbeveling van die Duitse genealogiese navorser en Wikitree lid Nico Meier het ek per e-pos kontak gemaak met die Evangeliese Kerkargief in Düsseldorf, Duitsland waar ondermeer ook afskrifte van die kerkrekords van die Evangelies-Lutherse en Reformierte (Gereformeerde) gemeentes van Emmerich (Emmerik) bewaar word. In my versoek het ek my behoeftes duidelik uitgespel wat betref die Geyser Stamvader se doop (moontlik 1720 of 1730). Ek het ook gemeld dat hy seilmaker van beoep was, as matroos omstreeks 1750 na die Kaap kom en in 1759 alhier as wewenaar hertrou. Marius Höpfner van die Evangeliese Kerkargief se antwoord was dat vir die periode 1730 tot 1766 (sic) geen Heinrich Geyser/Geijser opgespoor kon word nie, waarna hy my na Nederlandse instansies en genealogiese webwerwe verwys. Ek het weer eens per e-pos gevra wat dan van die jaar 1720 waarna Höpfner onmiddelik terugkom met 'n negatiewe antwoord. Terloops, die Nederlandse webwerf waarna ek verwys was, het uitstekende inligting oor skepe en passasiers, maar het geen Heinrich/Hendrik Geyser/Geijser opgelewer nie.

Leon Endemann

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Leon Endemann
Das Landeskirchliche Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen in Bielefeld hat mir folgende Informationen zur Verfügung gestellt:

Die Taufen 1718–1745 der Evangelischen Gemeinde in Lengerich, Kirchenkreis Tecklenburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, können tatsächlich auf ARCHION eingesehen werden. Leider habe ich keinen Zugriff auf Archion und wäre daher sehr dankbar, wenn mir bitte jemand bei der Suche nach folgendem Taufeintrag helfen könnte. Sein Name ist Heinrich Geiser (auch Geyser genannt) und laut seiner Sterbeurkunde wurde er entweder 1720 oder 1730 in Lengerich geboren. Sein Alter bei seinem Tod am 26. August 1809 wird mit 79 oder 89 Jahren, zwei Monaten und fünf Tagen angegeben (die Zahl ist etwas undeutlich geschrieben). Die Unterstützung eines Wikitree-Mitglieds mit Zugriff auf Archion wäre sehr willkommen.

Leon Endemann

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Leon Endemann
Onderussen het ek kontak gemaak met die Gemeinde Büro van die Evangeliese Kerk van die stad Emmerich am Rhein (op Nederlands Emmerik genoem) ten einde die doop van die stamvader Heinrich Geyser/Geijser aldaar op te spoor.

Emmerich am Rhein (oftewel Emmerik) as geboortestad van die stamvader is wat my betref die mees aanvaarbare in hierdie stadium, aangesien:

(1) Dit teenaan die noordoewer van die bevaarbare Rynrivier geleê is en indertyd (d.i. die 17de en 18de eeue) bekend was vir sy wolwewery bedryf wat ondermeer ook vir die maak van seile gebruik was.

(2) Emmerich is vyf kilometer ten suide van die huidige Nederlandse grens en Provinsie Gelderland, maar binne die hudige Duitse deelstaat Nordrhein-Westfalen geleê.

(3) Die Hansa-stad Emmerich was militèr strategies uiters gunstig en het daarom gedurende die 17de en begin 18de eeue dikwels van eienaar verwissel tussen die Protestantse noordelike Nederlande en die oorlogsugtige Koning.Louis XIV van Frankryk.

(4) Na die Vrede van Utrecht word die stad Emmerich in 1716 tesame met sy bure die Hertogdomme Kleve, Jülich en Berg finaal aan die Koninkryk Pruise oorhandig om later deel te vorm van sy Provinsie Rynland.

(5) Daarna het Emmerich ten koste van ander meer florerende sentra sy belangrikheid ingeboet en het sy welvaart gaandeweg verminder.

Volgens die voorlopige antwoord op my navraag aan die Gemeinde Büro van die Evangeliese Kerk in Emmerich, blyk dit dat kerkregisters vir etlike jare vernietig is a.g.v. die verwoesting van 90% van die stad deur Britse bomwerpers (RAF) op 7 Oktober 1944 gedurende die Tweede Wèreldoorlog. Ek wag nog op 'n volledige uiteensetting van watter registers vir welke periodes verlore gegaan het.

Leon Endemann

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Leon Endemann
Die stamvader se vermeende geboorteplek Lemmer in die Nederlandse provinsie Friesland is van die profiel verwyder. Daarbenewens kon geen plek wat naastenby soos Lemmer gespel word in die Heilige Romeinse Ryk (Duitsland) opgespoor word nie.


Heinrich Geiser/Geyser (oftewel Geijser volgens die vernederlandse spelling aan die Kaap) was seilmaker van beroep wat dui op 'n hawe in Duitsland wat aan die Noord See of Oos See (Baltiese See) geleë moet wees, waar 'n seilmaker van nut kan wees om seilskepe toe te rus. Tog moet ook in gedagte gehou word dat sekere groter riviere in Duitsland soos bv. die Ryn en Elbe bevaarbaar is en was seilbote ook ingespan om goedere en passasiers langs hierdie waterweë na en van die binneland te vervoer.

Dr Hoge se beweerde geboorteplek Lengerich, geleë in die voormalige Graafskap Tecklenburg wat uit die Middeleeue dateer, is reeds in 1707 by die Koninkryk Pruise ingelyf en nie naastenby binne bereik van 'n hawestad of bevaarbare rivier nie. Dit vorm tans deel van die deelstaat Nordrhein-Westfalen en word op Platduits "Lengerke" en in die plaaslike Oos-wesfaliese dialek "Liängeryk" genoem [Duitse wikipedia artikel aangaande Lengerich].

Leon Endemann

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Leon Endemann
Ek wonder maar net waar kom die stamvader Geyser se skielike Nederlandse oorsprong vandaan? Sou dit bloot gegrond wees op die veronderstelling (a) dat Lemmer indertyd digby die Zuider Zee geleë was (b) en/of die vernederlandse spelwyse van Geyser as Geijser?

Sou die stamvader se doopinskrywing dalk in Lemmer opgespoor wees?

Tot heel onlangs was die stamvader se algemeen aanvaarde plek van oorsprong, volgens dr Hoge en dr. Cor Pama, die dorp Lengerich êrens in Duitsland. Dr J. A. Heese en dr R.T.J. Lombard se SAG band 2 van die destydse RGN meld selfs die moontlikheid van Limerick in Ierland! Ek sou bitter graag gedokumenteerde uitsluitsel oor hierdie saak wou ontvang asseblief.

Byvoorbaat dankie

Leon Endemann

posted by Leon Endemann

Philip van der Walt
Both Heinrich Geijser (abt.1730-1809) and his spouse Judik (de Wit) Geijser (bef.1742-1805) were witnesses in the baptism of Hendrik Herman, son of Helena Geyser (profile yet to be created) - who must have been a sister to Heindrich Geijser, on the 11th of December 1774: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Coetzee-1346-1 ...

posted by Philip van der Walt

Alta (Bannink) Bekker
Geijser-1 and Geyser-69 appear to represent the same person because: the same person as they have the same name and were both married to the same spouse on the same date.

posted on Geyser-69 (merged) by Alta (Bannink) Bekker

Richard Roos
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geijser-1

and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geyser-69 are the same person as they have the same name and were both married to the same spouse on the same date.

posted on Geyser-69 (merged) by Richard Roos

Richard Roos
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geijser-1

and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geyser-69 are the same person as they have the same name and were both married to the same spouse on the same date.

posted by Richard Roos

Alta (Bannink) Bekker
Geyser-64 and Geijser-1 appear to represent the same person because: Same spouse. Only different spelling of surname. Archives records indicate at this stage that surname was Geijser

posted by Alta (Bannink) Bekker

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