Sophia (Feigen Radergoertgens) Klauten (abt. 1624 - 1665)

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Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Name 1.2 Birth 1.3 Immigration 1.4 Marriage 1.5 Events 1.6 Death 2 Sources

Biography

Name

Fitje Raderootjes Cloeten ^[1][2]

Sophia Raderootjes ^[3][4]

Sophia (Fytje) Raderootjes ^[5]

Fytjie (Sophia) Raderootjes Cloete ^[6]

Feigen Radergoertgens ^[7][8]

Sophia (Fijtje) Radergeortgens Cloete ^[9]

1660's Cape, [South Africa]: 1660 - 1665 Muster Rolls: ^[9]

• 1660: Fyckje Raderottjes
• 1661: Fyckie Raderottjes, from Oijt
• 1662: Fyckje Radegenties of Oijt
• 1664: Fijtje Raderatjes from Uts
• 1665: Fitge Raderootjes from Cologne

Birth

Date: Sophia (Fytje) / Feigen / Fitje Raderootjes was born [in] 1624 ^[9][5] / [in] 1625 ^[1] / [about] 1628 ^[7][8] / about 1630. ^[4]

Place: Oedt ^[10], Rheinland [Prussia] ^[9] / Keulen, Die Eiffel [Germany]. ^[5] / Eiffel, Keulen ^[3] / Uts, Cologne, [Germany]

Immigration

Date: 1659 ^[5]

Place: Kaap de Goede Hoop ^[5]

Sy is afkomstig van Uts in't land van Keulen, Duitsland. Sy het saam met haar broer, Peter Raderootjes, in 1659 aangekom aan die Kaap, aanboord die Arnhem, tesame met haar twee oudste kinders om hulle by Jacob Cloete te kom aansluit. Peter het by Jacob kom werk as 'n vrykneg, hy het egter later in diens van die VOC getrek.^[4]

She and her brother, Pieter Radergeortgens, from Oedt in 't lant van Ceulen, left Holland on 22nd October 1658, sailing in the Arnhem from Vlie[land], and arrived at the Cape on 16th March 1659, a Sunday, the weather being calm with a light breeze from the north west. (information: Sondagh, den 16en Maertio, 1659 and Woonsdagh, den 10en November 1660, in Daghregister gehouden by den oppercoopman Jan Anthonisz van Riebeeck, 1659-1662, published 1957 by A.A. Balkema, Cape Town). ^[9]

Pieter raderotjes van Ut in 't lant van Ceulen, hier te lande gecoomen voor vrijman met 't schip Aernhem den 16en Meert ao. 1659 met sijn suster Fijtje raderotjes, huijsvrouwe van den vrijborger Jacob Cloeten, welcke op ons versocht hebbende omme te mogen in Comps. dienst te worden aengenoomen, ende dies zedert pmo. April verleden daerop aen Comps. schuur tot preuve gestelt sijnde, wort vermits de goede kennisse aen hem bevonden tot den lantbouw bij deesen voor bouman aengenomen ende toegeleijt te winnen thien guldens 's maents mits verbonden blijvende d' E. Compe. daervoor alhier aen de Caap thien jaeren te dienen verbandt en gagie ingaende primo April versz dat aen Comps. schuijr dienst gedaen ende preuve gegeven heeft. ^[11]

Marriage

Name: Jacob Klauten ^[12]

Spouse's Name: Feigen Radergoertgens ^[12]

Event Date: 31 May 1650 ^[12] / 1645-1646 ^[5]

Event Place: Katholisch, Oedt, Rheinland, Prussia ^[12] / Netherlands ^[5]

Jacob Klauten and Feigen Radergoertgens, 31 May 1650 ^[12]

Husband: Jacob Cloete ^[5]

Wife: Sophia [Fytje] Raderootjes ^[5] (FYTJE - Wife of Jacob Cloete. ^[4])

Four surviving children: "… Des achternoens hoorden van onse oppermeester berichten als dat soo even de huijsvrouw van de vrijborger Jacob Cloeten in den Heeren was ontslapen, daer die arme man met sijn vier kinderen veel aen verloren hebben ..." ^[13]:

1. Child: Catharina Cloete ^[5]
2. Child: Elsje Cloete ^[5], "In the Niederrhein the name Adelheid is often reduced to Eltgen; hence the daughter "Elsjen" (Dutch) we know at the Cape. The witnesses to this baptism are Petrus Sax and Agnes Klauten. It seems reasonable to conclude that the second witness was none other than Jacob's younger sister "Nehssgen". ^[9]
3. Child: Coenraad Cloete ^[5]
4. Child: Gerritt Cloete ^[5]

Events

28 May 1665 Rare glimpse of CLOETE stammoeder … [Feigen_Radergoertgens-1|Sophia (Feigen / Fytje / Vytgen) Radergenties / Radegorts / Radergoertgens / Ra(e)dergorts / Raderootjes (from Cologne)]] dies [likely in childbirth] at the Cape. ^[14]

Des achternoens hoorden van onse oppermeester berichten als dat soo even de huijsvrouw van de vrijborger Jacob Cloeten in den Heeren was ontslapen, daer die arme man met sijn vier kinderen veel aen verloren hebben … ^[14]

Wife to CLOETE stamvader, she arrived (16 March 1659) on the "Arnhem" together with daughter, Elsje Jacobs: Cloete & her brother (as a freeman) Pieter Raderotjes: Pieter Raderotjes van Ut in 't lant van Ceulen, hier te lande gecoomen voor vrijman met 't schip Aernhem den 16en Meert ao. 1659 met sijn suster Fijtje Raderotjes, huijsvrouwe van den vrijborger Jacob Cloeten ... ^[14]

In that same year (1665) we have a fascinating description of the CLOETE home at their farm on the Liesbeeck which was originally the southern portion of the farm later known as "Ecklenburg" ["Eijklenberg"] & its amicable "half-naked & pregnant" mistress by Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) when writing about his visit (11 March-21 April 1665) to the Cape of Good Hope when sailing ex Batavia in the Return Fleet on the "Rysende Son" ^[14]:

"... Here we saw also the life of the Dutch farmers, who around here (& even for a good distance inland) have established themselves & settled down, well knowing how to look after their cattle, by taking them in the morning out into a grassy pasture, or where it may be, & in the evening bringing them into the stables again, which is necessary because of the multitude of wild beasts, although otherwise these folk live in considerable poverty, at least most of those who dwell far inland. ^[14]

I still remember how once the 3 of us wanderers had gone inland on a certain occasion, & were suddenly overtaken by dusk when we found ourselves near the most distant of the farm-houses, right behind the Table Mountain. ^[14]

Because of the wild beasts we did not dare to go back in the dark of night so long a way as we had come in our wanderings; so we resolved to beg the poor farmer for shelter (but for good payment) & set our course for the solitary farm-house. ^[14]

On coming there we were amicably greeted by the half-naked pregnant wife (from Cologne by birth), since her man was out, & invited into the little glassless house, & brought into the best room, which in this cold night was airy & chilly enough since there was no glass nor any shutters there. ^[14]

And there, when the man [Jacob Cloete] came home we ate a truly frugal evening meal, the best the folk could provide. ^[14]

Then (at our request) they made our bed or sleeping-place in the cowshed, where our diligent hostess threw some straw on the floor, & to make all as fine as might be spread over it a little piece of sailcloth. ^[14]

This stable was full of oxen & cows, so that the cold, which was by now pretty overpowering, was made the more tolerable by these 4-footed companions. ^[14]

Nevertheless we could sleep little for the first part of the night, because of a wanton calf that came into the stable (which was pretty long) & because of the strange visitors began to run about & make gay capers in the darkness, & over and over again was to be hard making for us at full gallop. ^[14]

Thus we had enough to do to turn the calf away in his mad career, by our loud laughter & by all of us stretching out our legs, so as not to be overrun by his helter-skelter leaps. ^[14]

But the diligent stableman was merrily on the go in this night-attack, & called to us reassuringly "Be of good cheer, Messieurs, I will manage to turn the crafty yearling away". ^[14]

Meanwhile he defended himself with great bravery as a bold soldier in this calf-war, assuring us that a calf can see by night & would know how to avoid us in his scampering calf-leaps, which we also found to be true; yet all the efforts of the stableman were in vain. ^[14]

So we let the calf scamper until it was tired, & in the morning found our bed-place sown with cow-dirt along the foot-end, with which it seemed to have honoured us in the night by way of welcome. ^[14]

Rising, we paid our poor host, & set off again, & so came aboard, where we often reminded each other of our adventure with the scampering calf in the cowshed … ^[14]

Note: The stableman referred to above would have been one of the 3 knechts on record (1665) as being employed by Jacob Cloete ^[14]:

* Albert Barends: Gildenhausen - progenitor of the Geldenhuys family in SA] (from Burgsteinfurt in Westphalia)

* Willem Jansen (from Amsterdam) - later biological father to the illegitimate child of the Snyman stamvader / Cape-born mestiço Christoffel Snijman's half-sister Petronella ... [or (Petronella ...?) Van der Walt-440 05:33, 19 February 2017 (EST)]

* Jacob Hendricqsen (from Campen) ... [or (Hendricksz-11? ^[15]] ^[14]

Death

Date: Feigen Radergoertgens passed away about 1 May 1665 ^[4] / [on] 28 May 1665 ^[7][8] in 1625 ^[1]

28 May 1665 Sophia (Feigen / Fytje / Vytgen) Radergenties / Radegorts / Radergoertgens / Ra(e)dergorts / Raderootjes (from "Uts in't lant van Keulen" [Oedt, Cologne]) - wife of free-burgher Jacob Clouten [CLOETE] (from Cologne) who is on record signing his name JACOB CLOUTTEN - dies at the Cape of Good Hope "… Des achternoens hoorden van onse oppermeester berichten als dat soo even de huijsvrouw van de vrijborger Jacob Cloeten in den Heeren was ontslapen, daer die arme man met sijn vier kinderen veel aen verloren hebben ..." ^[16]

Place: [Cape Town], Cape of Good Hope ^[9][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} WikiTree profile Raderootjes-5 created by Thinus Janse van RensburgThursday, December 12, 2013.
2. ↑ She is not referenced in Oude Kaapsche Families, nor in Familia (there are multiple versions of her given name and surname) Added by Anton Bergh 28 February 2016.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} WikiTree profile Raderootjes-3 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} WikITree profile Raderootjes-6 created through import of 20150722 11 Ancestors.ged by Chris Waller 24 February 2016. Sources:
   • Gedcom File Michael Bryan - [removed for privacy] 11/03/2007 28 AUG 2012
   • Hoge (German Personalia): RADEROTJES.
   • Pottas: "... was born about 1630. She died on 1 May 1665. Sophia (Fytje) RADEROOTJES was born about 1630. She died on 1 May 1665. Sy is afkomstig van Uts in't land van Keulen, Duitsland. Sy het saam met haar broer, Peter Raderootjes, in 1659 aangekom aan die Kaap, aanboord die Arnhem, tesame met haar twee oudste kinders om hulle by Jacob Cloete te kom aansluit. Peter het by Jacob kom werk as 'n vrykneg, hy het egter later in diens van die VOC getree."
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12} WikiTree profile Raderootjes-2 created through the import of flakey (3).ged (there are multiple versions of her given name and surname) by Anton Bergh on 18 April 2011.
6. ↑ WikiTree profile Raderootjes-4 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} WikITree profile Radergoertgens-1 created by Pieter Meyer, Mar 20, 2013.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} WikiTree profile Radergoertgens-2 created by Susan Delport, Sunday, July 28, 2013.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6} WikiTree profile Radergeortgens-1 created through the import of Vermaak Family Site - 05 May 2013.GED on May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak. Sources:
   • Author: Margaret Cairns Title: Familia Text: Tryn Ras I, Tryn Ras II, and Tryn Ras III - 2009 (1) Text: Jacob and Fijtje Cloeten Jacob and Fijtje Cloeten 'van Ut in 't Land van Ceulen' Author: Harry Booysens ([removed for privacy])
   • Author: Johannes Christoffel Fourie Title: Fourie Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Fijtje Raderotjes
10. ↑ Oedt (Electorate of Cologne) Holy Roman Empire Van der Walt-440 25 Apr 2021.
11. ↑ Source:
    • "Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Ref C. 2, pp. 155-160, C. 22, pp. 57-59, C. 24, pp. 68-71. Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier Feb 28, 2016.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4} Source:
    • "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J4GN-KXD : accessed 15 May 2016), Jacob Klauten and Feigen Radergoertgens, 31 May 1650; citing Katholisch, Oedt, Rheinland, Prussia; FHL microfilm 176,143. [16 May 2016. Added by Ronel Olivier 16 May 2016.
13. ↑ Source:
    • Mansell Upham First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community, Page: May 28, 2015 at 3:19.. Seen and entered by Anton Bergh on Feb 27, 2016.
14. ↑ ^{14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 14.18} Sources:
    • Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. Page: Feigen Radergoertgens > Illustration: Wouter Schouten (1638-1704), - author of "Oost-Indische-Voyagie; vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene vreemde geschiedenissen, bloedige zee- en landtgevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Makassaren ...’ (Amsterdam 1676) [Mansell Upham]
    • First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: Jun 23 at 3:18 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Feb 19, 2017 at 7:09 am.
15. ↑ Van der Walt-440 05:33, 19 February 2017 (EST)
16. ↑ Source:
    • Mansell Upham First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community, Page: First Fifty Years Project May 28, 2015 at 3:19 am]. Seen and added by Philip van der Walt May 28, 2015.