First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Hans Meyer¹

M, #17093, b. circa 1630

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Last Edited

07/09/2015

BirthOrigin*

Hans was from Wesselenmare and was perhaps born there circa 1630. I have not identified this location.¹

Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)

On 5 March 1659 Hans Meyer was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded among the Convicts and chain gang, for another 3 years.²
On 1 March 1661 Hans Meyer was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Wesselenmaire, cadet.³
On 1 April 1662 Hans Meyer was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Wesslenmare, cadet.⁴

Vrijbriewen and Burgher Status

On 5 September 1658, Hans Meyer was granted a vrijbrief or letter of freedom which released him from his contractual obligations to the VOC and accorded him the status of vrijburgher or free burgher. He was recorded as a cadet on the Henriette Louyse. A note in the margin noted he was condemned to three years in irons because he wished to desert.⁵

Citations

[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.267.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.297.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.302.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.305.
[S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.267. Hans Meyer, of Wesselemnare, cadet on the Henriette Louyse. Granted 5th September, 1658. (On margin, "Because he wished to desert he was condemned to three years in irons.").