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Laurens Visscher

M, #6762, b. circa 1650

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695

NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1665-1695

NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1665-1695

Last Edited

22/01/2016

BirthOrigin*

Laurens was from Wanvrede, Hessenlandt, and may have been born there circa 1650.¹

Marriage*

He married Agnietie van der Gragt on 1 March 1676 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.^1,2

Family

Agnietie van der Gragt b. c 1656, d. b 1 Jan 1701/2

Child

Regina Visser⁶ b. b 26 Dec 1676

(Passenger) ShipVoyage

On 15 August 1665 Laurens Visscher sailed on the Vergulde Tijger from Texel to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 30 January 1666.³

Occupation*

On 1 March 1676 Laurens Visscher was Proll Sergiant.⁴

Slave Transactions

On 17 April 1677 Cal van Madagascar was sold by Adriaen van Asperen to Laurens Visscher, for Rds. 40.⁵

Citations

[S629] Personal communications between Mansell Upham and Delia Robertson, 2010-present. Den 1 Maart Laurens Visschers van Wanvrede uyt hessen landt Prov.[isione]le Sergiant en Agnieta vander Graafs J.[onge] D.[ogter] van Gernichen met het schip Aardenburgh hier aengelandt.
[S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: Den 1 Maart [1676] Laurens Visscher van Wanvrede uyt Holssenlandt Pro[oll][sic] Sergiant en Agnieta vander Graa[ts] J.D. van Gornichen [sic] met het schip Aardenburgh hier aengelandt [See Mansell Upham citation for correct transcription.], transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar).
[S629] Mansell Upham.
[S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): Den 1 Maart
Laurens Visscher
van Wanvrede uyt Holssenlandt
Pro[oll] Sergiant en Agnieta
vander Graa[ts] J.D.
van Gornichen met het
schip Aardenburgh
hier aengeland, May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.134. 17.4.1677: Cal from Madagascar, a slave woman, sold by skipper Adriaan van Asperen to Lourens Visser for Rds. 40.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Anno 1676
Den 26 dito (Decemb) Regina
Laurens Visser en Agneta van der Graef
Dirik Jansz Smient en Sandrian Coons, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).