Jacobus (Húgot) Hugo
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Jacobus (Húgot) Hugo (bef. 1765 - 1842)

Jacobus Hugo formerly Húgot
Born before in Tulbagh, Cabo de Goede Hoopmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , , , , , , and
Husband of — married 14 Apr 1799 in Tulbagh, Ceres, Cape of Good Hope Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , and
Died after age 76 in Brede River, Cape Colonymap
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Table Bay, South Africa (1762)
Jacobus (Húgot) Hugo was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Biography

Name

Jacobus Hugo [1][2]

Birth

Date: Jacobus was born / before 30 Jun 1765 [3] / 21(?) May 1765 [4] / 14 May 1765[1]
Place: Farm "Brede Rivier" along the Brede River [4]

Parents

He was the son of Jacobus Hugo and Anna Rossouw.

Baptism

Name: Jacobús Húgot [3]
Date: 30 June 1765 [3]
Place: Tulbagh, Cabo de Goede Hoop [3]
tKint Jacobús
Vader Jacobús Húgot,
Moeder Anna Rossoúw,
Getj - Daniël Rossoúw, en Elisabeth Joúbert. [3]
Image:Hugo-805.jpg

Occupation

Farmer at the farm "Brede Rivier", on the banks of the Brede Rivier, in the large Worcester District [4]

Marriage

Date: 14 Apr 1799[5]
Place: Tulbagh, Cape of Good Hope Colony[5]
1799, den 14 April
Jacobús Húgo Jacobz: van Cabo de goede hoop burger
Aan Stellenbosch Jongman: met:
Sophia Johanna Jacobs van Cabo voornt jonge dogter[5]

Children

Children listed in his death notice[4]:
  1. Christina Elizabeth Hugo married with Willem van der Merwe R[oelof]'s son
  2. Anna Catharina Hugo married with Bernabe Jan Gerard deLabat
  3. Jacobus Francois Hugo

Death

The Death Notice of Jacobus Hugo [4] gives the following details:
  • filed: 11 March 1842
  • Name of Deceased: Jacobus Hugo Senior
  • Birthplace of Deceased: BredeRivier aan de Brede Rivier
  • Parents: Jacobus Hugo & Anna Rossouw
  • Age: 76 years + 9 months --> birth day 21(?) May 1765
  • Occupation: Agriculturalist
  • Marriage status: married (ie wife is still alive)
  • Day of death: 21 Feb 1842
  • Place of death: in the said place(farm) "Brede Rivier"
  • (Surviving) Children, all majors:
    1. Christina Elizabeth Hugo, married with Willem van der Merwe R[oelof]'s son
    2. Anna Catharina Hugo, married with Bernabe Jan Gerard deLabat
    3. Jacobus Francois Hugo[6]
  • Signed by: B.J.G deLabat, as Executor Testamentary
Four other children are known to have died young[2]:
  • Pieter Francois, 1803-1804
  • Anna Maria, 1806-1806
  • Magtel Maria, 1813-1821
  • Sophia Margaretha, 1816-1821

Slave Ownership

In 1816, under Governor Lord Charles Somerset, Slave Registers were set up by district to prevent abuse and illegal enslavement of free people, but also as step in the process towards abolition of slavery[7].
Jacobus Hugo, Jacobus's son, registered 33 slaves with the Tulbagh District Slave Register, in Ledger H, Folio H8[8] and Folio H31[9].

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 de Villiers C.C, Pama C, Genealogies Of Old South African Families, Vol I, p334, A A Balkema, 1981 (b2c2d6). Added at creation of WikiTree profile Hugo-805] by Riël Smit on 21 March 2020.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Familysearch personal ID for Jacobus Hugo (1765-1848) LHVB-WGZ
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Parish registers for the Dutch Reformed Church at Tulbagh, Cape Province Items 3 - 5 Baptisms 1743-1815 image 225 Seen and entered June 27, 2019 by Susanna de Bruyn
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Death Notice of Jacobus Hugo, 1842, image at Familysearch, 007844936 > image 1420 of 2223; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa. Added by Riël Smit on 2020-05-03.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Parish registers for the Dutch Reformed Church at Tulbagh, Cape Province, Memberships 1816-1840. -- Marriages 1744-1922 Film # 008121005, image 126 of 778 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-69VY-R?i=125&cat=993682 Added by Riël Smit on 2020-05-02.
  6. ↑ Familysearch ID for Jacobus Francois (1816-1893)LHT8-LVK
  7. ↑ Cape Slavery, Slave Registers of 1816-38, and how to find relevant images at Familysearch, Slave Owners and Slaves in South Africa
  8. ↑ Tulbagh Slave Register, Folio H8, Jacobus Hugo, Jacobus' son, image at Familysearch
  9. ↑ Tulbagh Slave Register, Ledger H, Folio H31, Jacobus Hugo, Jacobus' son, image at Familysearch

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Images: 3
Tulbagh Baptisms, 24 Mar to 10 Nov 1765
Tulbagh Baptisms, 24 Mar to 10 Nov 1765
Baptism of Jacobús Húgot, 1765
Baptism of Jacobús Húgot, 1765
Marriage entry for J Hugo and S J Jacobs, 1799
Marriage entry for J Hugo and S J Jacobs, 1799


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Smit-641 Riël Smit
Please add Hugo-1468, Hugo-1469, Hugo-1470 and Hugo-1471 as children
posted by Riël Smit
edited by Riël Smit
Laubscher-282 André Laubscher
All added...........................
posted by André Laubscher
NC Brummer
Hi Riel, I see you had some source for a birth date of 14 May 1765. I've just transcribed the Death Notice, calculated the birth from the given age, and concluded that it confirms your May month. Do you remember where you got that date? It may be the 'right' one.
posted by NC Brummer
Smit-641 Riël Smit
As can be seen here, it came from De Villiers and Pama, i.e. the first reference under sources. It got "lost in translation" with all the merges. I will fix it.

Edit: Actually I see it was clear before, but one of your edits made it unclear :) The problem with some of those edits (e.g. moving the "creation" references to Acknowledgements) is that now one can no longer see where what came from and by whom. I know WikiTree's latest changes to BioCheck now complains about references that are not clear "sources" for some unknown definition of sources, but I believe those suggestions should be ignored because it removes the ability to provide footnotes via references. I guess it is time to take it up with Kay and see what he says. :)

posted by Riël Smit
edited by Riël Smit
NC Brummer
Ah, now I'm seeing it in my own copy. Unfortunately, it is however given with the wavy lines of a baptism, not the star of a birth. That means De Villiers & Pama had the baptism date wrong, but possibly the wavy line should have been a star :-)

If I take the death notice at face value, assuming that the age is precisely 76 years, 9 months, and zero days .. then the date would have been 21st May. But not giving the number of days clearly means they didn't care about precision down to a day..

I wonder. Did people in those times celebrate their exact birthday or not? Now I'm looking up his wife's death notice, that that has nothing about his birth. She was 82 3/4 years old on 6th june 1862, and only mentions that she is widow of the late Jacob Hugo Senior.

.. now I'm curious who Jacobus Junior would have been. Was it their son 'Jacobus Francois', or another Jacob? So many Hugos.

posted by NC Brummer
Smit-641 Riël Smit
Yes, my original entry did say Before 14 May 1885. The Before got lost with the merges/edits that subsequently happened. :). Yup, lots of Hugos :)
posted by Riël Smit
NC Brummer
Ah.. and now I notice that de Villiers & Pama added a warning, under 'stamvader' Daniel: "N.B. In hierdie stamlys is geen verskil gemaak tussen geboorte- en doopdatums en veral in die latere generasies is baie doopdatums in werklikheid dus geboortedatums."

That means that the date given is actually likely to be the birthdate, *because* it differs from the baptism date. Would still be nice to find some place that confirms it. But for now, this 14th May seems to be a good guess for the birth date.

I also see that the son, e7, Jacobus Francois, gets children f1-f9 listed in the book. This same list also appears at Familysearch, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHT8-LVK , with further sources.

posted by NC Brummer
NC Brummer
Wow. The Hugo familytree in de Villiers & Pama has a pretty consistently recorded information about the farm(s) where each of these Hugo men did their work. The only problem is that we have no map indicating where all these farms were, in those times. In the 1700's, the Brede River valley was the wild east, where semi-nomadic cattle-farmers pushed out the Khoi/San original inhabitants, who were also devastated by the epidemic of flu/cold of 1713. The time of the Slave Registers in 1816-38 probably record the resulting slave-intensive farming operations, when wine farming also reached the Brede and Hex river valleys. The large families of de Wet, Hugo, de Vos, ... were main players in this process, and some of the modern elite wine and fruit farms are now their descendants.
posted by NC Brummer
Harris-12414 Trevor Harris
Hi There are more siblings recorded in familysearch if required
posted by Trevor Harris
Smit-641 Riël Smit
Hi Trevor, I wasn't particularly looking, just found some children as I was searching for someone else. If you have links, please post them, or better yet, create the new profiles and link them here like I did :)
posted by Riël Smit
NC Brummer
hi Trevor, I see that you actually have management privileges over this profile. So you could add the missing children, just to have a start. It looks like Familysearch agrees with the older de Villiers & Pama (1981) on this list.
posted by NC Brummer
Smit-641 Riël Smit
Please add Hugo-1095 and Hugo-1096 as daughter as per their baptism entries
posted by Riël Smit
edited by Riël Smit
Laubscher-282 André Laubscher
Both children added.....................
posted by André Laubscher
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
Húgot-22 and Húgot-19 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicates. I'll do the final integration of the bio after the merge, thanks!
posted by Philip van der Walt
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
Hugo-51 and Húgot-19 do not represent the same person because: They are not duplicates. I proposed another merge elsewhere.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
Hugo-805 and Húgot-19 do not represent the same person because: To be merged into Hugo-51 instead.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Smit-641 Riël Smit
Could you please explain why you believe Hugo-805 (now Húgot-22) is not the same persion as Húgot-19 ? Or do you just want Hugo-51 to be merged with Hugo-805 first?
posted by Riël Smit
Van der Walt-440 Philip van der Walt
If you open the profile of the spouse Jacobs-1339, you'll see two identical spouses. These two should be merged. Only if the merged profile then appears to be a duplicate of Húgot-19 (because there is no evidence [yet] that Húgot-19 had a spouse or even that she was Jacobs-1339, should they be merged. Right now the evidence seem to point that way; at the moment that the merge was proposed into Húgot-19, there was no evidence at all that they (or the father) were duplicates.
posted by Philip van der Walt
Rollet-41 Karen (Rollet) Lorenz
Hugo-51 and Húgot-19 appear to represent the same person because: These are duplicated profiles. Please merge.
posted by Karen (Rollet) Lorenz
Rollet-41 Karen (Rollet) Lorenz
Hugo-805 and Hugo-51 appear to represent the same person because: These two are duplicate profiles. Please merge.
posted on Hugo-51 (merged) by Karen (Rollet) Lorenz
Smit-641 Riël Smit
Should actually be merged with Húgot-19
posted on Hugo-51 (merged) by Riël Smit
Smit-641 Riël Smit
Hugo-805 and Húgot-19 appear to represent the same person because: they have similar birth dates, same father and mother (I was not allowed to add Anna Rossoúw as mother)
posted by Riël Smit

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