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Persoonlijke gegevens Johannes Ley b3 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1703.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1769, hij was toen 66 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Michael Ley , Leij, Lij en Engela Ingetje Breda

Gezin van Johannes Ley b3

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Anna Thibault.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Engela Johanna Ley  1740-1826
2. ??  1740-1826
3. Thorbjørn Johannesen Ley  

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Anna / [Bibouw/Bobou Bibault,b5].

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Michiel Daniel Ley  ± 1730-????
2. Johannes Ley  ± 1751-????

Notities over Johannes Ley b3

{{Dutch_Cape_Colony|needs=Validation}}
== Biography ==
=== Biltong ===
:: '''28 March 1709''': Start of biltong as we know it today? ... Swiss free-burgher Michiel Ley`s alternative recipe for salting meat adopted ... "Broad Council Meeting. Not one hardly offered himself for the supply of dried or smoked meat. Only 2,500 or 3,000 Ibs. were offered - a quantity very little among so many vessels. The necessity of supplying the ships properly is re-iterated. Governor & flag officers inspect some meat salted 8 days ago by the contractor Husing. The lean parts were found good, but the thick parts already spoiling.

:: Decided that the treat should first lie some days in the brine to draw out the blood, & after that placed in new salt. That was not the idea of Husing but of his fellow-contractor [[Ley-104|Michiel Ley]]. The former believed that the meat should be left in its first salt & not pickled beforehand; And was prepared to guarantee supply remaining good. Decided, however, to adopt the plan of double salting, recommended by Ley; Husing ordered to supply in that manner; "Meervliet" having brought sufficient casks for the purpose. Ley to supply his share according to his plan. Company to supply the pepper.

:: Decided to take over for the Company, the meat already salted by Husing. The good portions to be distributed among the crews, & the tainted ones among the slaves ... [Journal]

:: [[Ley-104|Michiel LEY {Löw}]] (1670-1716) (from Basel in Switzerland) - likely same person as Hans Michiel LEY born Benken BL 18 December 1670 [Loew pronounced "Ley"]), son of Ulrich Löw & Katharina Schwarz ...

:: Arrives (1696) as soldier thereafter master butcher; Likely biologically fathers illegitimate daughter by Company Slave Lodge matres [[Van_de_Caep-3|Armozijn Claes: van de Caep]], [[Ley-82|Machteld / Magdalena Ley]] halfslag baptized (26 August 1697) ...

:: Marries (8 December 1697 [[Breda-1|Engeltje Breda]] (from Delft, Holland) daughter of Nikolaas Breda & Aagje Keisers - her mother is recorded (1690) having a kindergarten in Cape Town ...

:: Buys (1699) house in Eerste Dwars Street from Hans Hendrik Smit ...

:: Contracts as Company’s Butcher with Company to loan a soldier to work for him; after expiry of 5-year contract, continues as free-master butcher always employing at least 1 soldier loaned from the Castle & supplying meat to public & Company by buying animals from the farmers ...

:: Contracts (1708) with 3 others to press grapes harvested by Company’s servants on the farm "Vergelegen" (present day Somerset West) for a half share of the produce ...

:: Deacon of Groote Kerk (1703) & Orphan Master (1707); nurses (1701) Hans Jacob Loets (from Schaffhausen) when very sick & lends money to compatriot Jan Oberholster (from Zurich) ...

:: With Cape-born mestiço [[De_Koningh-1|Willem Basson]], compatriot [[Oberholster-10|Jan Oberholster]] & Anthony Abrahamsz: (dies 1718), contractsto supply all the meat required by the Company - price Company prescribed for purchasing animals is however so unfavourable to farmers who refuse to sell that [[Tas-2|Adam Tas]] collects signatures petitioning against the governor, citing also other grievances & this is sent to Holland while [[Vander_Stel-6|Van der Stel]] draws up a Defence which his faithfuls sign - amongst them Ley & Oberholster resulting in :
:# 4 partners having meat contract cancelled at their request (taken over by Claas Hendriksz: Diepenouw),
:# [[Tas-2|Adam Tas]] being incarcerated in the Castle’s dungeon &
:# [[Vander_Stel-6|Van der Stel]] being replaced (1708) ...

:: At this time 4 of his slaves flee in an attempt to return to Madagascar but are recaptured after committing murders & robberies, & executed with great cruelty ...

:: Falls into disfavour with new Governor [[Van_Assenburg-1|Louis van Assenburgh]], who places him under arrest (1709) in the Castle releasing him only after he apologises ...

:: Census (1709) records him with wife, 3 sons & 1 daughter, 2 servants, 14 slaves, 4 horses, 30 head of cattle, 300 sheep & 2 pigs, 6 000 vines &2 leaguers of wine having purchased farm "Welgemeent" from [[Kotzé-108|Kotzé-108|Johann (Jan) Cotze / Kotze]] (from Königstein [Saxony]) comprising 3,95 hectares SE of Table Mountain; buys (1710) a 2nd house in Table Valley ...

:: Elected (7 October 1715) Burgher Lieutenant;

:: dies Cape of Good Hope (1716) ...

:: Widow hires Swiss soldier Johannes Lister (from Basel) as knecht ...

:: 5 children baptised of whom 3 reach adulthood [Mansell Upham] Source: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject First Fifity Years - collating Cape of Good Hope records Community] Page: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1303715536311854 March 28, 2016 8:31 am 2016] Seen and added by [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] March 28, 2016.:
:# Nicolaas Ley born December 1698; dies in infancy
:# [[Leij-1|Catharine Ley]] born c. 1701 ante 1709 marries [[Bergh-110|Martinus Bergh]], 9th child of Sweded [[Bergh-143|Oloff Bergh]] (from Gothenburg), leader of expedition to Namaqualand (1682-83) & Cape-born mestiça [[De_Koningh-1|Anna de Coningh]]
:# [[Leij-3|NicolaasLey]] baptised 25 November 1703 merchant & 2nd Commissioner for Slave Trade at Madagascar marries [[De_Wet-444|Jacoba Christina de Wet]] daughter of Cape-born [[Bergh-36|Christina Bergh]] & [[De_Wet-475|Jacobus de Wet]] (from Amsterdam), step-daughter of Swede [[Bergstedt-2|Matthias Bergstedt]] (from Stockholm) & granddaughter of Cape-born mestiça [[De_Koningh-1|Anna de Coningh]] & Swede [[Bergh-143|Oloff Bergh]] (from Gothenburg)
:# [[Leij-4| Johannes Ley]] baptised 25 April 1706 Company clerk & Commissioner of Civil & Marriage Affairs marries Anna Thibault daughter of Daniel Thibault (from Amsterdam) & Cape-born Aletta de Beer
:# Jacobus Ley baptised 8 December 1709, probably dies in infancy.

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