Gerrit Visser (abt. 1650 - bef. 1713)

Born about 1650 in Ommen, the Netherlands

Ancestors

Husband of Johanna (Heindricxsz) Visser — married 4 Aug 1675 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony [South Africa]

Descendants

Died before 17 Oct 1713 before about age 63 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Suffix

b3 (!?!)

Name

Gerrit Jansz /Visser/ (found multiple versions of NAME. Using Gerrit Jansz /Visser/.) ^[1][2]

Name mentioned as Gerrit Jansz Visser en Jannetie Tielmans on the Den 27 dito (Junij) at Alida van Deventer baptism.^[3]

Birth

Date: Gerrit Jansz Visser was born about 1657 ^[4] / [on] 16 Jan 1667 (1657 - found multiple copies of birth date. Using 16 JAN 1667) ^[2] (Gerrit Visser was born about 1700. ^[5][6])

Place: Ommen, Overijssel, Netherlands ^[2] / [Western Cape, South Africa] ^[2]

Date: 04 AUG 1653 ^[7]

Place: Ommen, Ommen, Overijssel, Netherlands ^[7]

Date: 30 SEP 1659 ^[7]

Marriage

He married Jannetie Thielemans at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope on 4 August 1675. ^[8]

"Den 4 Augustus (1675) Gerrit Jansz Visscher geboortigh van Ommen J.M en Jannetie Thielemans J.D, geboortigh aen Cabo de Boa Esperance" ^[8]

Place: Western Cape, South Africa ^[7]

Husband: Jan Coenraadsz Visser ^[7]

Wife: @I137@ ^[7]

Child: Gerrit Jansz Visser ^[7]

Child: Geesje Jansz Visser ^[7]

Child: Maria Jansz Visser ^[7]

Events

30 September 1679: Some freemen (Gerrit Jansz: Visser (from Ommen), Hendrik Jacobsz: van West(er)kerke, Jan Stoffel, & Wilhelm Meyer (from Essen) - 3 first being freeburgers & 4th a Company servant on loan), all of competent age who had been in the interior with our licence to shoot sea cows [hippopotami] for the maintenance of their families, returned to the Fort [Casteel de Goede Hoop], & reported that they had been robbed of their wagon oxen (24 in number) by some Soucquas of the Obiqua tribe [Bushmen or San], who had further threatened that if they did not return to the Cape, they would come & massacre them; that they were thus compelled to abandon their wagon & the flesh of the animals they had shot, & to make a precipitate retreat, as fully appears by the declarations passed by them: but it is much to be doubted whether the said "Hottentots" [Bushman] had not received some provocation before they resorted to such insolent & predatory conduct; & this must be further inquired into. [Journal] [Mansell Upham] ^[9]

Death

Date: Before 17 Oct 1713 ^[10]

Date: 17 OCT 1713 / 1744 (found multiple copies of DEATH DATE. Using 1744) ^[2]

Place: Good Hope [Western Cape, South Africa] ^[2]

Will

Testator: Gerrit Jansz Visser

Date: 17 October 1713

Inventaris en taxatie der goederen naergelaten en met er dood ontruijmt bij wijlen den landbouwer Gerrit Jansz Visser ten voordeele van desselfs tien kinderen, als

Thieleman Visser

Aaltje

Johannes ,

Jacomina

Geesje

Jannetje

Femmetje

Marritje

Johanna en

Gerrit Visser..........^[10]

Sources

• WikiTree profile Visser-911 was created through the import of Venter_2013_2015-01-12_2015-01-1402.ged on Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter.
• Source: Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: (null) Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006).

• WikiTree profile Visser-72 created through the import of My Family.Pretorius.Van_Wyk.DeWaal.Potgieter.2011.ged on Sep 19, 2011 by Judy Potgieter.

• WikiTree profile Visscher-31 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper. User ID: 685A9957837D2E429D60B1B8E1FD1151C864 Prior to import, this record was last changed 29 Sep 2010.

• Geslacht-register der Oude Kaapsche Familien, Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers, 1894, Kaapstad Full ^{[citation needed]} (who put this here using which source on what date? Which facts of this profile are supported by what content in this source?)

• Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Gerrit Jansz Visser Full ^{[citation needed]} (who put this here using which source on what date? Which facts of this profile are supported by what content in this source?)

1. ↑ Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. Source: #S5 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} JJan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Adils Ottarsson
3. ↑ The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions [(http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-ngk-1665-to-1695/48-cape-town-baptisms-1677 Cape Town Baptisms 1677 page 22 : accessed Jan 23, 2015)], Cape Archives Verbatim Copies VC 603, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, baptisms 1665 to 1696.VC 603 is a photocopy made during the 1980s of the original, 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 and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series). The original register is now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1 1/1.The transcription was originally made in 2006 by Richard Ball. Corrections were received from Delia Robertson and Alwyn Smit and Corney Keller had now completely revised and amended the original transcript (February 2012). Seen and added Jan 23, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn.
4. ↑ Entered by Pieter Meyer, May 20, 2013.
5. ↑ Johan Smit, Wednesday, January 7, 2015.
6. ↑ Might be a father-son profile conflation ... Gerrit Visser-61. Entered by Philip van der Walt Oct 1, 2015.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8} Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. Source: #S3 Text: Record for Jan Coenraad Visser
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Source:
   • Marriage Register - "South Africa, Cape Province, Cape Town, church records Images 1 - 51", Baptisms, memberships, marriages, 1665-1695, Image 46 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ML-49Y2-H?i=45&cat=2866837). Added by Gerhard Swart on 25 April 2023.
9. ↑ Source: First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: Sept 30 at 5:20 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Oct 1, 2015.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa, Reference no.: MOOC8/2.82. Seen and added Jan 23,2015 by Susanna de Bruyn.