Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael1

M, #7897, b. circa 1640, d. 23 April 1676

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Last Edited24/12/2022
BirthOrigin*Jacob was from Rosendaal and may have been born there circa 1640. His age is estimated.2,3 
Marriage*He married Catharina van den Bergh on 9 November 1664 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.1,4,5
 
Death*He died on 23 April 1676 de Caep de Goede Hoop.6
 

Family

Catharina van den Bergh b. c 1646, d. a 28 Sep 1687
Children
(Recipient) LandGrant On 14 April 1657, Steven Jansz Botma, Otto Jansz:, Hendrik Elbrechts and Jacob Cornelisz Rosendaal were granted land on the eastern shore of the Liesbeecq, near the Bound Thorn Bush, 160 roods NW to SE and 200 roods N to S. The grant was signed by Rijcklof van Goens.7 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.31 May 1657, the name of Jacob was written in the record as Jacob Cornelisz.8
7 May 1673, the name of Jacob was written in the record as Jacob Rosendaal.
25 July 1675, the name of Jacob was written in the record as Jacob Cornelisz Rosendaal.
Baptisms - WitnessJacob Cornelisz van Rosendael and Catharina van den Bergh witnessed the baptism of Pieter Jansz Louw on 17 July 1667 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.2
He and Mayken Hendriks van den Berg witnessed the baptism of Geertruydt Israels on 29 January 1670 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.9
He and Maryke Tielemans and Mayken Hendriks van den Berg witnessed the baptism of Jan Stevensz Botma de Jonge on 23 July 1670 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.10,11
He and Catharina van den Bergh witnessed the baptism of Helena Clements on 22 April 1674 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.12
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)On 6 March 1657 Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael was enumerated in the muster roll, as a soldier.3
On 31 May 1657 Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael was enumerated in the muster roll, among the free men, or vrijlieden.8
On 15 February 1658 Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael and Otto Jansz: were enumerated in the muster roll, among the freemen, as Vreden's Company and owners. Enumerated with them was Hendrik Fransz: Knipbergen described as 'in their service.13'
1663 Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in Cape District.14
Vrijbriewen and Burgher StatusOn 14 August 1657, Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael 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. The vrijbrief was signed by Rijcklof van Goens.15
Slave TransactionsOn 19 August 1674 Theodoor of Unknown Origin was sold by Claas Voogdts to Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael.16
Between 18 April 1675 and 1 May 1675 Joncker van Masulipatam was sold by Willem Hagedoorn to Jacob Rosendaal, the period Hagedoorn, skipper of Asia [Azië], was at the Cape. He was sold for Rds. 70.17,18
On 11 February 1676 Pasqual van der Kust Coromandel was sold by Hendrik Gerritse to Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael, for Rds 52.19,20
Property TransactionsOn 4 September 1671 Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendael sold to Anthonij Jansz van Bengale his erf with house on Zee Straat, 100 sheep, and a garden in Table Valley for f 3 000, of which f 100 was paid immediately and a debenture of f 2 900 was registered for the balance. This is first occasion that a free-black purchases property at the Cape, and the transaction is therefor very signficant. On the same date Anthonij signs an acknowledgement of debt.21,22,23,24,25

Citations

  1. [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. "9 November 1664: Jacob Cornelisz: van Rosendael (from Amsterdam) & CatharinaJansz: van den Bergh (from Amsterdam)."
  2. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: den 17 Julii Een soonje van Jan Pieterz van ka,, sper ter manen en Beatrix Wynants van Uijtrecht syn h: genaemt Pieter, de peeters waren Jacob Cornelisz van Rosendal en Catharijntje Jansz van Amsterdam, 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.).
  3. [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.286-287. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  4. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Date assumed. Seems clear the marriage must have occurred before this baptism:
    den 22 nov 1665 is gedoopt een dogter van [Jan]
    Israels by Heltjen Redogs, is genaamt Gerthru[ij]
    ald getuigen Tielleman Hendrikze met Catharin[a]
    Roosendaal, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  5. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: Den 19 Julij
    Tobias Marquaert J.M. vrijburger met Catharina van den Bergh weduwe wijlen den vrijburgers Jacob Rosendael, 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. [S664] H.C.V. Leibbrandt Compiler, (Castle Street, Cape Town: W.A. Richards & Sons, 1902), p.250: The ex-burgher, Jacob Rosendaal, was snatched away from this sinful, perishable, and vain world by by the cold, unexpected, relentless death. 24th. The body of the free burgher, Jacob Rosendaa, buried this afternoon. God grant him and us all, when parting from this world, a blessed resurrection, to the Glory of His Holy Name! Amen.. Hereinafter cited as Journal 1671-1674, 1676.
  7. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.262-263 The Commander and Council of the Fort the Good Hope, at Cabo de Boa Esperance, having been pointed out and respectfully asked for by Steven Jansz:, of Wageningen, Otto Jansz:, of Vreede, Hendrick Elbrechtsz:, of Osenbrugge, Jacob Cornelisz:, of Rosendael – all burghers and residents – a certain plot of ground, situated in the big veld or pass between Table and False Bays, behind Table Mountain, on the East side of the little Liesbeeck, near the Bound Thorn Bush, in breadth mostly N. by W. and S. by E., 160 roods, in depth E. by N. and W. by S. at the N. and S. side 200 roods, adjoining on the W. the large public road at the said E. side of the aforesaid Liesbeeck, on the E. the Company’s orchard, towards the Cape mountain range, on the W. towards the mountains of the Continent of Africa; and on the S. and N. the cultivated and still to be cultivated land of the Hon. Company, just as it has been laid down and shown by the Surveyor in the annexed chart; that the same land, that is fit for the purpose, may without delay, be at once sown with wheat, rye, rice and other grain, and be taken possession of in freehold, and held without any tax for the space of 12 years, provided that the grantees shall not be permitted to sell, let or alienate the same, before the said 12 years shall have expired, and only then with the knowledge and consent of the Council aforesaid, instead of mortgage deeds, in which case they shall remain subject to the payment of such taxes and dues, as well as to allow such high roads thenceforth through their lands, as may have been resolved upon by the authorities in this country subject to the approbation of our Principals, or may hereafter be ordained in the interests of the Company and that of the public, on condition however that should the said freemen on account of dissipation or otherwise, be found not to display sufficient diligence, and consequently leave their lands untilled, they shall forfeit all such lands, which shall again be taken possession of by the Hon. Company, and they shall further refund the Company with their labour all the debts which they have incurred, and be bound to protect and guard all such redoubts or watch-houses as shall be erected by the Hon. Company for the protection of their lands, everything subject to the approval and confirmation of the Honourable Masters.
         Given in the Fort “The Good Hope,” on the 14th April, 1657, and signed Ryckloff van Goens. On the open space was pressed the seal of the Company in red wax, under which stood, “By order of the above-mentioned honourable gentleman, in the Fort, and on the date as above and signed by me–
    ABRAHAM GABBEMA, as Clerk."
  8. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.290.
  9. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1670
    Den 29 Jan'
    een dochterje van Jan Israelsz van Berkeloo en Hilletje Redoch wiert genaemt Geertruydt, tot getuyge stonden Jacob Rosendal en Maychen Thielmans, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  10. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1670. Den 23 July. een soontje van Steven Jansz van Wageningen en Hendrickje syn huysvr' wiert genaamt Joannes tot getuygen stonden Jacob Roosendaal en Mayke Tielmans., 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  11. [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, Lorna: . . . Jan Stevensz de Jonge =23.7.1670 x Christina de Bruin en boer op Vredenburg, in de Moddergat. Hier word miskien na Jan de Jonge verwys omdat hy ln die omgewing gewoon het.. Hereinafter cited as Palmkronieke I Baptisms.
  12. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Anno 1674
    Den 22 Aprill een Dochtertje van Matys Michielsz van Stockholm en Isabelle van Delft syn huysfrouw wierdt genaamt Helena onder getuychenisse van Jacob en Catharina Rosendaall, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  13. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.294.
  14. [S935] Opgaafrol, J __; J; Tax Rolls, 1663, Cape Archive Depot, 0003A COORN V ROSENDALJACOB 1 211 27 60 3 1210 211 K.
  15. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.264. As above to:- Jacob Cornelisz:, of Rosendael, soldier, d.d. 14th April, 1657.
  16. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 19.8.1674          CTD 6, p. 165
    Claas Voogt, skipper van die fluit Marcken, verkoop aan Jacob Cornelisz Rosendaal, burger alhier, die lyfeienes Theodoor van … vir 90 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."
  17. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.131. No date given for sale of Joncker from Masulipatam (21) by Willem Hagedoorn, skipper of the Asia to J acob Rosendael for Rds. 70.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  18. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 5671.1 from Batavia
    Number     5671.1
    Name of ship     AZIË
    Master     Hagedoorn, Willem
    Tonnage     1140
    Type of ship     
    Built     1671
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     28-01-1675
    Place of departure     Batavia
    Arrival at Cape     18-04-1675
    Departure from Cape     01-05-1675
    Date of arrival at destination     1675
    Place of arrival     
    Chamber for which cargo is destined     Amsterdam (366,032)
    Particulars     Aboard the AZlË was Ludder Brummer, commandeur of the return fleet.
    Previous outward voyage     1236.1
    On Board     I     II     III
    Seafarers     127                         
    Soldiers     18. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
  19. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.131. 11.2.1676: Pasqual from the Coromandel Coast (26), sold by Hendrik Gerritse from Amsterdam to Jacob Cornelis Rosendael for Rds. 52.
  20. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die notariële stukke II", 11.2.1676          [Verlore]
    Hendrik Gerritse van Amsterdam verkoop aan Jacob Comelis Rosendael die slaaf Pasqual van die Coromandelkus, 26 jaar oud, vir 52 Rds.
  21. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.129. 4.9.1671, V, pp. 67-69: Anthonij from Bengal borrowed from Jacob Cornelis Rosendael the sum of f 2 900. The first payment of f 1 200 would fall due when the return fleet of 1672 left the harbour; the second payment of f l 700 after the first section of the next return fleet from Batavia had been in the harbour for a fortnight. [DR: Böeseken misinterpreted this transaction. See next two citations, i.e. Hatting & Upham.]
  22. [S606] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "A.J. Böeseken se Addendum van Kaapse slawe-verkoopstransaksies: Foute en regstellings", Kronos (Foute en regstellings) 9 (1984): Op bladsy 129 van die addendum, onder die datum 4.9.1671, gee Böeseken te kenne dat die vryswart Anthonij van Bengale van Jacob Cornelis Rosendael die aansienlike bedrag van 2 900 gulde geleen het maar vermeld nie waarvoor die lening gemaak is nie. Die sleutel hiervoor lê opgesluit in die voorafgaande drie bladsye van die betrokke bundle, te wete pp. 64-66. Dit behels die verkoopakte waarmee Rosendael sy huis en erf te Zeestraat (Strandstraat vandag) in Tafelvallei (soos Kaapstad destyds bekend gestaan het) asook 100 skape en 'n stuk tuinland elders aan Anthonij van Bengale verkoop het. Anthonij het onmiddellik 100 gulde in kontant betaal en toe 'n skuldbrief (wat Böeseken as 'n verkoopakte verstrek) vir die oorblywende 2900 gulde geteken. Hierdie is die vroegste grondtransaksie waarmee 'n vryswarte grond aan die Kaap deur aankoop bekom het en as sodanig is dit dus 'n uiters belangrike document wat Böeseken verswyg en vermink voorhou.. Hereinafter cited as "Foute en regstellings."
  23. [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. "Anthonij purchases (4 September 1671) 100 sheep, a garden (stuk tuingrond) higher up in Table Valley and an erf (with a house) in Zee Straat from the free-burgher Jacob Cornelisz: Rosendael (from Woerden [South Holland]). This purchase is highly significant. This is the 1st time ever that a free-black or mardijcker purchases property at the Cape. In terms of the contract Rosendael sells to Anthonij, described as a free-black and likewise burgher of this place (vrije swart insgelijx borger alhier) - a house and erf together with 100 sheep and a garden in Table Valley. For all this, he is to pay f 100 and register a debenture for f 2 900."
  24. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die notariële stukke II", 4.9.1671     T 116          T 173          CTD 5, p. 64
    Jacob Cornelissen Rosendael, burger en vry ingesetene, verkoop aan Anthonij van Bengale, ‘vrijeswart insgelijx borger alhier’, ‘n huis en erf gelee volgens die erfbrief van 21 Oktober 1666 aan die einde van Zeestraat, noordwaarts [daarvan] is die woeste land van die stert van Leeuwenbergh, ooswaarts die seekant, suidwaarts aan die erf van die vryburger Jacques Jaecquelijn en weswaarts aan die nog onbeboude erwe na die Kompanjie se perdestaI; saam met 100 skape en ‘n ander stukkie grond in Tafelvallei, volgens die erfbriefvan 4 Oktober 1667 in die ongewing van die Kompanjie se perdestal aan die tuin van Wouter Mostaert, alles vir f 100 en ‘n skuldbrief vir f 2 900.
  25. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die notariële stukke II", 4.9.1671     CTD 5, p. 67
    Skuldbrief van Anthonij van Bengale, vryswart en inwoner, ten gunste van Jacob Cornelisz Rosendael vir die bedrag van f 2 900 weens die koop van 100 skape, sekere huise en erwe geleë in Tafelvallei op die hoek van Zeestraat na die stert van Leeuwenbergh en nog ‘n stukkie tuinland geleë agter die meule in die omgewing van die Kompanjie se perdestal aan die huis van Wouter Mostert volgens die erfbriewe van 4 en 21 Oktober 1666 en 1667 respektiewelik. Hy beloof om Rosendael in twee paaiemente te betaaI, die eerste f 1 200 wanneer die tweede besending skepe uit Batavia in 1672 die rede verlaat het, die tweede f 1 700 die volgende jaar wanneer die eerste retoervloot van Batavia 14 dae voor die rede lê.
    [Daar is ‘n handtekening maar dit is nie duidelik of dit bedoel is om gelees te word en of dit bloot ‘n ry tekens van onvoltooide letters is nie.]
  26. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1666
    den 26: Decemb: een doghter van Jacob Cornelisse Rosendael bij Catarina van de Bergh sijn h: peters waren Jan Reimersz en syn h: Leijsbet Jans, wierd genaemt, Jannetje, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  27. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): An' 1668
    Den 22 Maert een dochtertje van Jacob Rosendal en en Catharina syn huysvr' wiert genaemt Jannitje tot getuygen stonde Jan Israelsz van B[erc]kloo en Hillitje Ste Does syn huysvr, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  28. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): 1673
    den 7 May
    een dochtertie van Jacob Rosendaal ende Catharyn van den Bergh wiert genaemt Cornelia tot getuygen stonden Theunis Dirckz en Jacomijntie Heimans, May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  29. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): ao' 1675
    Den 25 dito (Julij) een soontie van Jacob Cornelisz Rosendaal en Catharina Jans van Bergh syn huys-vrouw des kints naam was Cornelis als getuygen stonden Gerrit vander Byll en Fytie vander Tempell echte luyden, May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
 

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