Project: Cape of Good Hope - Kaap de Goede Hoop (1652-1806)

Mission and Scope

This project serves as a forum for researchers and descendants of people who lived in the Dutch Cape Colony (not to be confused with Cape Colony) during and after it was first settled under governorship of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652, until the final British invasion and take-over on 8 January 1806. Many of the inhabitants were in service of the Dutch East India Company, and when out of service stayed on to settle the land and serve the Company by supplying goods and provisions (the Cape of Good Hope was halfway in between the far-east and Europe). Some European settlers came fleeing religious persecution or dire living conditions and hardship, and used the Company as passengers. Many of the Cape's inhabitants were brought as slaves from the Far East and other colonies (including Africa), or were born in bondage and served the Company directly or indirectly by providing manual labour. Other inhabitants were already indigenous to the land before the first Europeans set foot. One thing everyone had in common - they were governed by the despotic and immensely powerful Dutch East India Company.

Purpose / Goal

The purpose of this project is to establish a coherent set of WikiTree profiles directly or indirectly related to the scope of the Dutch Cape Colony (1652-1805) Project. Coherent means clear set or unequivocal implying that profiles have been sourced as best possible, that the parent profiles are correct, the data collated, the names [and variants thereof] fully and correctly noted, all duplicate profiles merged.

This validation starts with and primarily entails searching for the baptism records (and / or other primary records such as marriage records) to validate the spelling of the LNAB (Last Name At Baptism) or surname. If no baptismal records exist, the search will have to be for other primary sources bearing the name, for example marriage records, death records etc. Once such a record has been found, it is uploaded to the profile in question with a full citation according to the instructions given by the source itself (database / website) [or into the biography of the profile in case of a validated and well cited transcription], and name of the person who uploaded it and the date of the upload. See this example. Secondary sources are used to support and argue the validation of the primary facts of each individual profile.

See the process section for a more detailed explanation.

How to Join

1. Ask André Laubscher or Susanna de Bruyn for a badge. They are the Project Leaders (chief communicators for this project; there to help identify needs, coordinate volunteers, provide assistance and mentoring with sourcing, citation, merging, translation and any other questions regarding issues relating to this project)
2. Add dutch_cape_colony to your followed tags on G2G.
3. Add your name and area of interest or family connection in the next section below Our Team (click the [edit]).
4. Visit our Project Profile (more general information on Project Profiles)

It is preferred that new project members have both some experience of working in a Wiki environment (WikiMarkup Language; hierarchies / hyperlinking) as well as a reasonable amount of WikiTree contributions as experience - we expect a basic knowledge of how WikiTree works (as can be seen in a track record). Every one having signed the Honor Code may contribute though by adding information to the comment boxes or using the Wiki email facility from any specific profile within this project.

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Our Team

For a list of current members, also see the badge report:

• Susanna (Coetsee) de Bruyn - special interest de Bruyn / Coetsee / Meyer and le Roux families - (Project Leader)
• André Laubscher - special interest Loubser/Laubscher, le Grange & Koster families, but working across all profiles (Project Leader)
• Ronel (van Heerden) Oliver - special Interest Olivier family
• Desireé Erasmus - (Coordinator)
• Gordon Mac Rae - special interest Roux family
• Dirk Toms Started out with "Nolte" but recently got sucked into the complexities of "Jourdaan".
• Sonja Hoile I am working on du Toit, Combrinck/Combrink, Bezuidenhout, de Kock, van Heerden and van der Merwe, and would love to help anywhere I can.
• Dirk le Roux
• Alta Bekker - special interest Bekker family
• Angie Childs - special interest Malan family
• Gert Kruger
• Janette Engelbrecht My interest : Engelbrecht, Van Schalkwyk and Vorster, Luckhoffs
• Christiaan Wessels My interest - Cillie/Cellier and Wessels
• Tolken My interest - TOLKEN, De la Rouviere, Wiid, Heyns and Conradie
• Celia Malan My interest - Steyn, du Toit, Pretorius, Malan, van der Westhuizen
• Marlene A. Marx - special interest Marx, Janse van Rensburg and Linde/Linden families
• Daniël Malan - special interest "Malan" family
• Jaulanne Totman Primary interest Hartogh,van der Bank, Secondary van de Kaap, Erasmus, Delport, Greyvenstein, Nel
• Anton Bergh - special interest Bergh family
• Riaan Serfontein - special interest Serfontein/Serventijn family (checked in 10/05/2020)
• Bea Wijma interested and working on 'Dutch Roots' Families and a whole lot of others.
• Andries Martinson My interest - BENECKE/BENEKE , FOURIE, KUHN, MARTINSON
• Andrie van der Linde - special interest van der Linde family
• Arrie Klopper
• Andrew Dippenaar - special interest Dippenaar family
• Catherine (Botma) du Toit - special interest Botma family name
• Colin van der Meulen
• Dawie Theron - special interest Theron family
• Hein van Rooyen - special interest Van Rooyen family
• Esmé van der Westhuizen
• Evan Snyman
• Gabriel Botma
• Gerry van Niekerk - special interest van Niekerk family
• Helene van Niekerk - special interest van Niekerk family
• Geoff Gladwin - special interest Mol, Myburg, de Beer family
• Guy Westbrook - special interest Huguenot surnames
• Hendrik Dreyer
• Hilde Hattingh
• Hannes Marais - special interest Marais family, and secondary interests in the Buys, van der Walt, Celliers and Hurter families
• Ina Chatwin - special interest Faasen family
• Jaco Bekker - special interest Bekker family
• Judy (Pretorius) Potgieter
• Johan Rossouw - special interest Rossouw family
• Leon Bezuidenhout - special interest Bezuidenhout family
• Dick Barnhoorn - special interest Bezuidenhout family
• Merryl Hunkin
• Peter Lombard - special interest Lombard family
• Petri van Zyl - special interest van Zyl family
• Phillippus C. Jansen_van_Vuuren - special interest jansen van Vuuren, Suzaan janzoon van Vuren family
• Pieter Bekker - special interest Bekker family
• Pieter Meyer - special interest Meyer family
• Sharon Caldwell
• Schalk Pienaar
• Stella (Goodenough) Hamman - special interest Grové and Brink families
• Theo Winter - special interest de Bruyn, Malan and Pretorius families
• Trevor Harris
• Wendy de Waal - special interest de Waal family
• Willem Coetsee
• Wynand van der Walt - special interest van der Walt / Liebenberg families
• Tertius van der Merwe - interested in the "van der Merwe", "Snyman" and "Fourie" families
• Evert Kleynhans - special interest "Kleynhans / Kleinhans/ Kleijnhans"/ Neethling/ Davel and Reyneke/ Erasmus families
• Susan Grundy
• Reid-4312 Henn, Rens, Appel, Keyel
• June Ackermann
• Ann Blom - special interest Janse Van Rensburg family
• Andrew Field
• Suzelle De Beer
• Olaf Terblanche - special interest "Terblanche" family
• Keith Meintjes - special interest Louw family
• Marco Nel - special interest "Nel" family and the events happening prior to the "Groot Trek".
• Pam Cormac Smith - keen to help where ever I can. Does somebody need help with any projects or anything? Currently an active member of Greeters and Ambassadors
• Jan Vorster - special interest: Getting compliance with Wikitree protocol for location names for births, marriages & deaths.
• JacquesTerblanche - special interest "Terblanche",”Beelders”,”Groenewald”,”De Swart”,”De Bruyn”,”Honiball”,”Crause”,”Du Toit” and “Laubscher” family
• Lauren Behr - Special interests in the Groenewald, Diener, Behr and Rowley families.
• Francis Lehman - special interest: Visser family and all of their relatives.
• Alysia Prinsloo - special interest in lines to family progenitors for complete family tree. Lines still outstanding: Nell and Nel, Mynhardt, Du Toit, Brummer.
• Diederik Rudolph Pretorius - special interest "Pretorius"
• Tracy Cheetham - special interest "van den Hever/Heever" ((checked in 18-03-2021)
• Drea Muller - special interest in Muller Family
• Colin Christie - special interest in Els Family
• Alexandra Odendaal - special interest in Odendaal
• Ria (Botha) Lenard- Interested in all my ancestors and to help other members
• Lourens Brits - special interest in Brits and Roos Family
• Louise Hess - special interest in Hess Family Name (checked in 15-11-2021)
• Jan North - special interest in Le Breton, Adams, Botha, Venter, Van Der Ploy
• Hein van der Mescht
• Ingrid Kennedy - special interest in Loubser, Munnich
• Petrus Swart Surnames Swart, Nieman, van Dyk, Prinsloo, also Kruger, Smit, Pretorius and Booyens
• NC Brummer special interest in Brummer, Heatlie, Marais, Fehrsen, Neethling. Especially also slaves & slave-owners, Khoi/San, Notables, people with stories. Made index of Slave Registers so as to find relevant images at Familysearch. Houdenbek Slave Revolt of 1825 and anybody connected to it, hence interest in Tulbagh, Bokkeveld, and farm survey diagrams and places of residence. Hexrivier valley, with especially owners of the farm Zeekoegat/Orange Grove.
• Deirdre (Helberg) Snook - special interest in Helberg, Schultz, Brazer, Nagel, Pinches, de Beer, van Jaarsveld, van Eeden, Smit or Smith, Buckle, Prinsloo, van Emmenes, Snyders, Swanepoel, Roux, Krige, de Villiers, Lombard, Jaubert, Richarde, Maxeau
• Paul Snook - special interest in Helberg, Schultz, Brazer, Nagel, Pinches, de Beer, van Jaarsveld, van Eeden, Smit or Smith, Buckle, Prinsloo, van Emmenes, Snyders, Swanepoel, Roux, Krige, de Villiers, Lombard, Jaubert, Richarde, Maxeau
• Michael Anderson - special interest in Anderson, Davel
• Arno Barnard - Ancestors (multiple surnames), consolidating duplicates, adding to incomplete pages, trying to solve orphan page issues.
• Keith Struwig - direct descendant of and special interest in Johannes Struywig and Dutch roots.

• Karen Squires special interest in Villion/ Villon/Viljoen and Squires.

Beside your name above, please keep track of what you're currently working on for this project. This is both for your own reference, and to aid collaboration among the project participants. If you are going to be temporarily inactive in the project (eg. on vacation), please note that here. Thanks!

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