Ancestral File Number:b3
BIOGRAPHY: In die eerste helfte van 1705 het 'n slaaf, Jacob van die Kus Coromandel, die 19 jarige Hilletje Smit op sonsondergangs in Jonkershoek naby Stellenbosch voorgelê. Hy het probeer haar ompraat om omgang met hom te hê. Maar sy het hom geweier, dit was eers tien uur die aand toe 'n verbygaande burgher haar gered het. Na Jacob se inhegtenisname het hy gevlug en hy word tot dood veroordeel.
{geni:occupation} Housewife
{geni:about_me} Cape Town Baptisms 1691
http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-ngk-1665-to-1695/61-cape-town-baptisms-1691
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>Den 1 April een kindt gedoop daer van vader is Jan Sm[...] (dissapears in binding) de moeder Adriana Tol, als geuijge stondt Jan Most[...] ende Catrina Ciens, ende genaemt '''Heiltie'''.
'''b5 ✽ Hulsie (Hilletjie)''' » Kaap 1.4.1691 † c. 1761 x 24.10.1705 Matthys Andries DE BEER † c. 1730 xx c. 1754 Jan Georg ZORN
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In die eerste helfte van 1705 het Jacob van die Kus Coromandel, die slaaf van Isaac Schrijver, die 19-jarige Hilletje Smit teen sonsondergangs in Jonkershoek naby Stellenbosch voorgelê. Hy het haar probeer ompraat om omgang met hom te hê, maar sy het geweier en vir etlike ure mooigepraat om hom van sy voorneme te laat afsien. Eindelik, teen sowat tienuur die aand, het 'n burger tot haar redding gekom. Na Jacob se inhegtenisname het hy tydelik ontvlug, maar hy is weer gevang en tot die dood veroordeel. Hy is op 10 Junie gehang.
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1) De Beer Stammoeder.
2) Haar huwelik vind plaas 14 jaar en 6 maande nadat sy gedoop is. (ten minste 16 jaar oud).
3) In die opgraafrolle word haar naam gewoonlik gespel Hyltje.
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[http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/smit/I145.html Richard Ball's Notes]
Although she later appears in the records as Hilletje, she was baptised Hulsie [Heiltie] according to the Cape Town registers - perhaps this was the way the dominee heard her parents say her name? Throughout the baptisms of her own children her name is spelled in various ways, generally suggesling the pronunciation 'Heiljtje'.
Around March 1705, aged fourteen, on her way home to her step-father's house in Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch, with a jug of beer that she had been sent out to fetch, she was waylaid by a slave, Jacob van de Cust Coromandel, who asked her to sleep with him.
On being repulsed he told her he would force her. When she started to scream for help, he threatened to cut her throat, but she was rescued by the Freedman, Casper Vigier.
On the 10th June 1705 Jacob was hanged and his body left hanging to rot as a mirror and deterrent for others.
(From the account given in the records of the Council of Justice, Cape of Good Hope, CJ 782, 4).
I have assumed that she is the same Hilletje Smit, wife of Matthias de Beer, whose Estate Accounts were drawn up in 1763, although only one of her children would be named for her side of the family.
on http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/smit/I145.html
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Baptism
NGK Cape Town
'''1691 Den 1 April een kindt gedoop daer van vader is Jan Sm[...] (dissapears in binding) de moeder Adriana Tol, als geuijge stondt Jan Most[...] ende Catrina Ciens, ende genaemt Heiltie.'''
NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch
on http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-ngk-1665-to-1695/61-cape-town-baptisms-1691
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Death
Land van Waveren, Cape of Good Hope
'''1760, 16 Dec Hilletje Smit hv van Georch Zorn'''
Cape Death Notifications 1758-1838, transcribed from a microfilm copy at the Eaton LDS family history center, Cape Archives Waveren Dood Register extracts on http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/smit/I145.html
{geni:marriage_order} 1
{geni:marriage_order} 2
STAMMOEDER VAN DIE DE BEER FAMILIE IN SUID-AFRIKA.
CHRISTENING: = Stellenbosch 01.04.1691
CHRISTENING: = 1/4/1691
Hilletje Smit |