Hans Rutger Trost

M, #7731, b. circa 1650, d. 1716

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NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1665-1695
Last Edited05/04/2016
Birth*Hans Rutger Trost was born circa 1650 in Elberfield, Germany.1
 
Marriage De facto* Before 1685 Hans Rutger Trost and Maria van Bengale were in a de facto relationship de Caep de Goede Hoop.2  
Marriage*He married Aeghje Claesz Keijser on 3 February 1692 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.3
 
Death*He died in 1716 de Caep de Goede Hoop.4
 

Family

Maria van Bengale b. c 1660
Children
Names in the record, in publications, etc.3 February 1692, the name of Hans was written in the record as Hans Rutgentroost.
Vrijbriewen and Burgher StatusHans Rutger Trost became a burgher on 3 February 1692, in Dutch vryburgher or vrijburgher, initially a status in which a soldier or other employee of the VOC was released from their contractual obligations to the VOC and permitted to farm, become a tradesman, or work for others. Subsequently some individuals, including the Huguenot refugees, were brought to the Cape specifically to farm and were burghers from the time of their arrival.5
Slave BirthsBefore 2 January 1687, Carel Trost was born in bondage and was owned by Hans Rutger Trost de Caep de Goede Hoop.6,7
Before 2 November 1687, Hendrick Trost was born in bondage and was owned by Hans Rutger Trost de Caep de Goede Hoop.6,4
Slave TransactionsCirca 1681 Maria van Bengale and Elisabeth Marcusz were sold by Anthonij Jansz van Bengale to Hans Rutger Trost, this transaction is assumed.8
On 24 August 1684 Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave was sold by Tobias Marquaert to Hans Rutger Trost, for Rds. 100 or f 300, Cape valuation.9
On 30 November 1686 Pieter van Madagascar was sold by Roelof Diodati to Hans Rutger Trost, for Rds. 50.10
On 2 March 1696 Cupido van Madagascar was sold by Pieter Robberts to Hans Rutgentroost, for Rds. 74.11
On 23 March 1699 Pampus van Malabar was sold by Hans Rutger Trost to Pieter Barilje, for Rds. 100.12
On 27 March 1699 Boelang van Padang was sold by Lambert Adrianse van Weede to Hans Rutger Trost, for Rds. 100.13
Slave EmancipationsBefore 13 January 1688 Maria van Bengale was emancipated by Hans Rutger Trost de Caep de Goede Hoop.14,15,16

Citations

  1. [S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946), p.430. Trost, Hans Rutger (S), also called Hans Rutgentrooster. – Elberfeld. So. 1670, b. since 1677, resident at Stellenbosch. ~ 3.2.1692 Aaghje Claase Keysers of Rotterdam, wid. Nikolaas Breda. † 1716.. Hereinafter cited as Personalia.
  2. [S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia, p. 430; TROST, HANS RUTGER (S), also called HANS RUTGENTROOSTER.- Elberfeld. So. 1670, b. since 1677, resident at Stellenbosch. ~ 3.2.1692 Aaghje Claase Keysers of Rotterdam, wid. Nikolaas Breda. † 1716. (GMR 1670; MR. Vrye Lieden 1677; Will of 1688 in Stellenbosch Arch., vol. 646: 27; Will of 1702 in CJ 1164: 69; Inv. O.C. 3: 19; Bdlr. 1:97.) T. had two illeg. sons, Hendrik and Carl, by his slave Maria of Bengal, bapt. 2.11.1687; in the same year he manumitted Maria on account of her faithful services. (Stellenbosch Arch., vol. 620, under 20.11.1687.) A daughter of Aaghje Keysers and Nikolaas Breda, Engela Breda, married Michael Ley of Basel (q.v. ) (Inv. O.C. 3:20). A. Keysers had in 1690 a kindergarten school in Cape Town. (See P. S. du Toit, " Onderwys aan die Kaap onder die Kompanjie," p. 30.).
  3. [S717] NGK G 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk - First Marriage Register at the Cape, 1665-1712: 3 February 1692:
    Hans Rutgentroost van Herbervelt, jonghman en burger alhier
    met
    Aeghje Claesze Keiser van Rotterdam, weduwe en vryb. alhier, as transcribed and annotated by Mansell Upham, (10 September 2012), Personal Library. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk - First Marriages.
  4. [S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia, p. 430.
  5. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: ao 1692
    Den selfde Dito (Den 3 Febr)
    Hans Lutgertroost van Hirle[.]velt jonghman en borger alhier, ende Aeghje Claesz Keijser van Rotterdam wedu' en vrijborgeresse alhier, 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).
  6. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Ao. 1687. op den selfden (2 November) zijn gedoopt twee kinderen waar van de eene is genaemt Hendrick, het ander Carel, de vader was Hans Rutger Troost, de getuijgen Pieter Gertsz: en Cornelia Cornelisze, de moeder slavinne [Maria van Bengale] [My thanks to Mansell Uphman for correcting this 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 (Bapt.).
  7. [S325] Lorna Newcomb and Ockert Malan, compilers, Annale van Nederduits Gereformeerde Moedergemeente Stellenbosch No 1.., CD-ROM (Stellenbosch) Die Genootskap vir die Kerkversameling, 2004 0-9584832-1-3), Baptism Register. Hereinafter cited as Palmkronieke I Baptisms.
  8. [S203] Mansell Upham 'Cape Mothers: Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta (c. 1631-1683), her slave Maria van Bengale & her daughter-in-law Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye (1673-1742)', 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), October 2014. "Circumstantial evidence points to this slave family passing to the free-burgher Hans Rutgert Trost (from Erbervelt / Herbervelt)."
  9. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 142. 24.8.1684: A slave (name not mentioned), sold by Tobias Marquart to Hans Rutger Troost for Rds. 100 or f 300, Cape valuation.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  10. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.147. 30.11.1686: Pieter from Madagascar (17), sold by Roedolf Diodati, bookkeeper of the Jambi, to Hans Jurgen Troost for Rds. 50.
  11. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.172. 2.3.1696, p. 36 (verso) 37: Cupido from Madagascar (14), sold by Pieter Robberts to Hans Rutgert Troost for Rds. 74.
  12. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 188. 23.3.1699: Pampus from Malabar (30), sold by Hans Rutgert Troost to Pieter Barilje for Rds. 100.
  13. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 188. 27.3.1699: Boelang from Padang (24), sold by Lammert Adriaensz to Hans Rutgert Troost for Rds. 70.
  14. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Who is Jannetje Rutgertroost? A genealogical investigation into the origins of a Cape of Good Hope-born mesties woman variously found in the records as: Jannetie / Jannetie Hans:/Hanse: Rutgertroost', 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), April 2012. "Trost bequeaths (13 January 1688) monies to his 2 illegal sons "by Maria van Bangala my former slave now manumitted" (in onecht by mijn gewesen slavin nu vrijgegewen Maria van Bengala)."
  15. [S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia, ... in the same year he manumitted Maria on account of her faithful services. (Stellenbosch Arch., vol. 620, under 20.11.1687.).
  16. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): ao 1691. Den 18 Maij sijn in den huijwelijken staet vereenigt Domingo van Bengalen, vrijborger alhier met Maria van Bengalen vrijborgeresse alhier., May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  17. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 30 Jannetje Rutgertroost', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713),.
  18. [S325] Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms, Lorna:
    In "Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658 -1700" p. 51/2 vertel Dr A.J. Boeseken die storie van Hans Rutger Troost se twee slawe kinders wat gesterf het op 29.8.1690 toe gedroste slawe sy huis aan die brand gesteek het. Ongelukkig word geen name genoem nie dus weet ons nie of die slagoffers Hendrik en Carel was nie.
 

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