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Arent de Wacht¹

M, #13946, b. 2 September 1661

Father*

Mother*

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24/03/2014

Birth*

Arent de Wacht was born on 2 September 1661 in de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Baptism

Arent de Wacht was baptized on 23 April 1662 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by Dom:e Antonius Scherius and Frans Gerritsz van den Uijthoorn. The baptism was performed by Dom:e Antonius Scherius.²

Citations

[S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012. "2 September 1661:
Birth: Son of Jan Martendz: de Wacht
"September 2nd Hard weather from the West, with rain. … Today the wife of the freeman Jan Martensz de Wacht was delivered of a young son".
23 April 1662:
Arent de Wacht (born 2 September 1661) son of Jan Ma(a)rtens(sen) (de) Wacht (from Vreeland [Utrecht]) ?Neeltjen Arensz: (from Vreeland); repatriates (1672) with parents."
[S787] Church matters (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk), Incoming Letters, 9 April 1652-14 May 1663, (NL-SAA, archiefinventaris 379, inventarisnummer 206, pp. 29-35), (eGSSA - van der Stael Letters, http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/classis-amsterdam/…), Den 23 [April 1662]:...ende het zoontje van Jan Martensz de Wacht, vrijburger en is genaemt Arent, de getuigen is Frans Gerritsz vanden Uijthoorn vrij lant bouwer... as transcribed by Corney Keller.