Jan Andries Horak[1] came from Altendamm, probably near Bremen in Germany. He married four times at the Cape, had four children from his second, and four from his third wife.
↑ 2.02.12.2 Source: The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 4 Jan 2017), http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-marriages-1713-1756/197-cape-town-marriages-1739Page 38 This transcription has been made from photographs of the 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 and added by Gordon Mac Rae 15 April 2017.
↑ Parish registers, Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Cape Town (Cape Province), 1695-1976 Marriages 1757-1803, 1737-1818 Marriages 1757-1803 page 215.Seen and entered Febr 4, 2019 by Susanna de Bruyn
↑ 4.04.1 Source: The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 4 Jan 2017), http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-marriages-1713-1756/198-cape-town-marriages-1741Page 42 This transcription has been made from photographs of the 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 and added by Gordon Mac Rae 15 April 2017.
↑ Parish registers, Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Cape Town (Cape Province), 1695-1976 Marriages 1757-1803, 1737-1818 Marriages 1757-1803 page 219. Seen and entered Febr 11, 2019 by Susanna de Bruyn
↑ 6.06.1 Source: The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 4 Jan 2017), http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-marriages-1713-1756/308-cape-town-marriages-1748Page 55 This transcription has been made from photographs of the 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 and added by Gordon Mac Rae 15 April 2017.
↑ 7.07.1 Source: The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 4 Jan 2017), http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-marriages-1757-1803/377-cape-town-marriages-1760Page 12 This transcription has been made from photographs of the Cape Archives Verbatim copies document VC 622 - Cape Town marriages and memberships 1757-1803, which is a photocopy of the original register, now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1-13/2. 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 267 of this register. Seen and added by Gordon Mac Rae 15 April 2017.
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His career at the Cape seems long, but it isn't clear to me that this is also Jan Andries Horak. Who can read the text better than me, and find links with Horak? https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.04.02/invnr/5985/file/NL-HaNA_1.04.02_5985_0580
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