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Données personnelles Christoffel Snijman 

• Aussi connu(e) sous le nom de Snyman.
• Il est né le 9 mars 1669 dans de Caep de Goede Hoop.
• Il est décédé en l'an 1706 dans Drakenstein, de Caep de Goede Hoop, il avait 36 ans.
• Un enfant de Hans Christoffel Snijman et Catharina van Palicatte

Famille de Christoffel Snijman

Il est marié avec Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye.

Ils se sont mariés le 10 décembre 1690 à Drakenstein, Dutch Cape Colony, il avait 21 ans.

Notes par Christoffel Snijman

[[Category:Cape of Good Hope Ready]]

== Biography ==
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=== Name ===: Christoffel Snyman WikiTree profile Snyman-223 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-223&diff=prev&oldid=17070900 created] by [[Steyn-721 | Stefan Steyn]], July 14, 2014.WikiTree profile Snyman-164 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-164&diff=prev&oldid=11590361 created] through the import of Bell-6939 2013-09-15.ged on Sep 15, 2013 by [[Bell-6939 | Mike Bell]].WikiTree profile Snyman-285 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-285&diff=prev&oldid=18558191 created] by [[Bannink-13|Alta Bekker]] 16 September 2014. WikiTree profile Snyman-477 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-477&diff=prev&oldid=32331920 created] by [[Waller-1418|Chris Waller]] 24 February 2016. Source: * Web Site A M Van Rensburg URL: www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/4364/ April 2007WikiTree profiles [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-4&diff=prev&oldid=3468557 Snyman-4] & [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-52&diff=prev&oldid=5496227 Snyman-52] created through the import of AJBOTHA.ged on Aug 31, 2011 and on Feb 25, 2012 by [[Botha-12 | Deon Botha]] respectively.WikiTree profile Snyman-57 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-57&diff=prev&oldid=5975575 created] through the import of Du Toit_De Jager Family Tree.ged on Apr 18, 2012 by [[Schneeberger-8 | Werner Schneeberger]].WikiTree profile Snyman-58 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-58&diff=prev&oldid=6031443 created] through the import of MargarethaTheresaDESAVOYE.ged on Apr 25, 2012 by [[Schneeberger-8 | Werner Schneeberger]]. Source: * Title: ''South African Genealogies'' / ''Suid Afrikaanse Genealogieë'', Volume 11 Abbreviation: SAG Vol. 11 Author: GISA Page: Page 505WikiTree profile Snyman-116 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-116&diff=prev&oldid=9113976 created] by [[Meyer-2493|Pieter Meyer]], Mar 21, 2013. / Snijman WikiTree Snijman-48 was [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snijman-48&diff=prev&oldid=29710973 created] through the import of Marais2.ged on Nov 23, 2015 by [[Seddon-1606 | Richard Seddon]]. {Date of birth = 1775; Place of birth = Netherlands} WikiTree profile Snijman-10 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snijman-10&diff=prev&oldid=6698353 through] the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by [[Klopper-13 | Arrie Klopper]].WikiTree profile Snyman-77 [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Snyman-77&diff=prev&oldid=7476778 created] through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by [[Dippenaar-12 | Andrew Dippenaar]].

=== Birth ===: Date: Christoffel Snyman was born about 1660 / 31 Mar 1669 / 9 Mar 1669 / about 1669 / 1675 : Place: Cape of Good Hope [Kaapstad] / [Cape Town] [South Africa]

=== Parents ===: Parents / Ouers: Enigste seun van [[Snijman-1|Hans Christoffel Snijder]] en [[Van_Palicatte-2|Catharina van Paliacatta]].

=== Baptism ===
: Op 31 Maart 1669 :: [http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/e635.htm ''Den 31 Maert Een Soontjen van '''Groote Catrijn''' wiert genaamt '''Christoffel''', tot Getuijgen stont '''Angila'''''] Source:* Robertson, Delia. ''The First Fifty Years Project''. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: [http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5115.htm Christoffel Snijman] Seen and entered by [[Chapman-5484|Evan Snyman]] Sept 10 2014; [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] Mar 24, 2015.Source:* [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ML-49YD-J?i=6&cat=2866837 FamilySearch] [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2866837?availability=Family%20History%20Library South Africa, Cape Province, Cape Town, church records, 1665-1695] Authors: [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bauthor_id%3A788209 Dutch Reformed Church Archives] (Stellenbosch, South Africa) (Repository) Format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Digital Images; Language: Dutch Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2007. [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] Aug 14, 2020. / 9 Mar 1669 (Witnesses / getuie: [[Van_Bengale-1|Angila]]. ): Place: In die Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kaapstad / [Cape Town]

===Membership===
: Name: Christoffel Snijman van de Caep
: Date: ''Den 14 Augusti [1692]'': Place: Reformed Church, Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop Source:* http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/RemarkableWriting/UL14CapeMothers.pdf; Page 5; entered by [[marais-3116|Rachel Marais]] on 23 August 2022

=== Marriage ===: Date: Ongeveer / abt 1689 met [[De_Savoye-54|Marguerite-Theresa de Savoye]]. : Place:In die Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kaapstad.
:: Husband: [[Snyman-58|Christoffel Snyman]] :: Wife: [[De Savoye-4|Margaretha Theresa de Savoye]] :: Amount of children / aantal kinders: Twee seuns en sewe dogters. ::: Christoffel SNYMAN, ∗ ±1669, ≈ 09.03.1669, † <1707 »» Kinders (9): 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 3469, 3470 x ±1690, [[De_Savoye-54|Marguerite DE SAVOYE]] (d.v. [[De_Savoye-15|Jacques DE SAVOYE]] & [[Du_Pont-6|Christine DU PONT]]), ∗ Ghent, Frankryk 04.09.1672 Source:* [http://www.snymangenealogy.co.za/resources/files/DieSnymanFamilie.pdf Die Snyman Familie] Seen and added by [[Pienaar-305 | Schalk Pienaar]], Wednesday, April 23, 2014.

=== {{Green|Afrikaans}}===: "Christoffel is as 'n slaaf gebore aangesien sy moeder op daardie stadium nog 'n slavin was. Sy is eers later vrygestel (Desember 1671) en hy saam met haar. As slawekind sou hy die van van de Caep gekry het. Ons weet nie waar die van Snyman vandaan kom nie aangesien sy vader se van Snijder was. 'n Moontlikheid is dat dit 'n vernederlands van Snijder is. Christoffel word dus beskou as die stamvader van die Snymans."(1) Elizabeth (Snyman) van Helsdingen en Elizabeth Snyman b9 is die selfde persoon. 2) Jessaias R. Snijman is gebore lank nadat Christoffel al oorlede is en kan dus nie sy kind wees nie. 3) Voeg by Christina b4 en Susanna b8. )

:'''Algemeen:''': Vanaf 1692 tot 1705 het hy in vennootskap met [[Walters-1046|Ernst Friedrich Walter]] op die plaas Sandvliet, Groot Drakenstein, geboer. : Op Donderdag, 22 Januarie 1699 het die vryswarte Claes Cornelisz van de Caep en Jacques Savoye, sy skoonpa, vir hom borg geteken.

=== {{Green|English}}=== : "Christoffel was born a slave due to the fact that his mother was still a slave at that time. She, and Christoffel along with her, were only freed later (December 1671). As a slave child he would have received the surname de Caep. We do not know where the surname Snyman originated as his father's surname was Snijder. One possibility is that it is a Dutch form of ''Snijder''. Christoffel is therefore considered to be the stamvader (first ancestor) of the Snymans."Translation of the above note by [[Chapman-5484|Evan Snyman]] Sept 10 2014.
: It is not only chronologically and geographically possible, but most likely, that the child baptised on''' 9 March 1669''' Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop, whose mother was named in the record as [[Van_Palicatte-2|''Groote Catrijn'']] was [[Snijman-1|''Christoffel Snijman'']]. Mansell Upham, in his article, In ''Hevigen Woede'' . . . Earliest recorded female bandiet at the Cape of Good Hope - ''A Study in Upward Mobility'' in Volumes 3/97 and 4/97 of Capensis, makes a strong case that this was so, including that there was only one woman known as such at the Cape, and she later married [[Van_Bengale-18|''Antonij van Bengale'']]. ''Christoffel Snijman'' would refer to the couple as ''mijn ouders''. Furthermore, the witness at the baptism, named as [[Van_Bengale-1|Angila]], was most likely the woman known variously as [[Van_Bengale-1|Angila]], [[Van_Bengale-1|Angela]], and [[Van_Bengale-1|Ansiela]], etc., a close friend of [[Van_Palicatte-2|Groote Catrijn]].
: Christoffel Snijman was born in bondage and was owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape, before 9 March 1669 ''de Caep de Goede Hoop'', illegitimate in slavery. His birth was subsequently legitimized by the marriage of his mother to '''his step-father''', [[Van_Bengale-18|''Anthonij Jansz van Bengale'']], who adopted him.
: Farmer on the farm "Sandvliet", Freed slave/Farmer, Farmer, Slave in DEIC service. Married on 12/10/1690 [[De_Savoye-54|Therese de Savoije]], Belgium, Slave in the DEIC service. [http://www.geni.com/people/Christoffel-Snyman/6000000005787831256 geni.com Christoffel Snyman]

=== Events ===: For those still wondering about the curiously hypergamous marriage of slave-born mestiço [[Snijman-23|SNYMAN]] male progenitor (stamvader) to the (allegedly aristocratic) Ghent-born [[De_Savoye-54|Marguerite-Thérèse (Margo) de Savoye]] (1673-1742) ... some insightful & fascinating background ...
: 20 November 1676: The Cape free-black [[Van_Bengale-18|Anthonij Jansz: van Bengale]] "vrij ingesetene alhier" - husband to twice pardoned & freed exiled Company slave convict [[Van_Palicatte-2|Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta]] [Pulicat] & step-father to Cape-born mestiço [[Snijman-23|Christoffel Snijman]] (1668-1705) - is allowed the use of the slave the "Maleijer" '''Barru''' aka '''Baddou van Bali''' sold by Governor ''Joan Bax van Herentals'' to [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_de_l'Ostal_de_Saint-Martin ''Isaac de l`Ostal Saint-Martin''] (c. 1629-1696) for Rds 50 ...
: ''Anthonij'' & ''Baddou'' had been trusted fellow slaves together in the households of successive Cape commanders '''Cornelis van Quaelbargen''', ''Jacob Borghorst'' & ''Pieter Hackius'' ...
: '''St. Martin''' was the French ''chevalier'', who comes in an unknown year from the ''Béarn'' to the Dutch Republic, leaving (1657) for Batavia, after a training in the Dutch States Army, together with [[Van_Rheede-24|Baron Hendrik van Rheede]] & ''Johan Bax van Herentals'' - future commander of the Cape Colony whose wife '''Aletta Hinlopen''' was a close blood relative to [[Van_der_Stel-28|Simon van der Stel's]] estranged wife [[Six-124|Johanna Jacoba / Jakoba Six]] (1645-1700).
: Stationed on Ceylon [Sri Lanka] & Dutch Malabar [Kerala] (until 1672), he served under [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijcklof_van_Goens Admiral Rijcklof van Goens] in campaigns against the Portuguese on the west coast of India & against the sultans in Mataram (Java), Ternate & Bantam.
: A confirmed bachelor, he lived in Utrecht (from 1683) with his similarly unmarried 'compagnon' [[Van_Rheede-24|Hendrik van Rheede]], a naturalist - both having a keen interest in botany & friends of [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Huydecoper_van_Maarsseveen_%281625-1704%29 Joan Huydecoper II, heer van Maarsseveen & Neerdijk (1625-1704)] - Amsterdam burgomaster, one of the founders of the [Hortus_Botanicus_Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus], one of the managers of the VOC & also related to the [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_van_der_Stel Van der Stel], Six & [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_F._Hinlopen Hinlopen] families & uncle by marriage to [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Bax_van_Herenthals Joan Bax van Herentals] ...
: He sailed again (1684) to Batavia. During his stay at the Cape he makes a trip to the north. Together with another close friend Simon van der Stel, he searched for medical or economical plants (1685). A valley north of Piketberg is named after him.
: In the East again, he sat on the Council of India owning 3 microscopes & helping the blind [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumphius Georg Eberhard Rumphius] (1627-1702), a German botanist on [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambon_%28stad%29 Ambon Island], to get his books written & published & ordering [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Kaempfer Engelbert Kaempfer] (1651-1716) to do research on the components of Japanese rice paper.
: He died (1696) & his inheritance went to his brother '''Gratian''' in ''Oloron'', a lawyer in the [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques Pyrénées-Atlantiques] receiving 1200 books in Hebrew, Arab, Persian, Portuguese & Malay. He was one of the 1st to collect such books in the Malay language & mansion & garden in Kemayoran with a Japanese pavillon are sold to [[Van_Rebeeck-1|Abraham van Riebeeck's]] son-in-law & fellow Governor-General in Batavia, '''Joan van Hoorn''' - as non-resident owners are not allowed to own property on Java ...
: Read more about Anthonij & Baddou at the following link: http://www.e-family.co.za/…/RemarkableW…/UL14CapeMothers.pdf [Mansell Upham] Source: * [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community] Page: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1218131211536954 Nov 20, at 5:23 am] Seen and added by [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] Nov 20, 2015.

=== Property ===: 1 property - Farm ''Sandvliet'', Groot Drakenstein 2 DATE FROM 1692

=== Events ===: Date: '''5 October 1678''': Free-black [[Joij-1|Jackie 'Joij' van Angola]] aka Gratias Maijalas van Angola & Anthoni "vrij kaffer" [Anthonij van Angola] sue in a civil suit the Cape-born mestiço [[Snijman-23|Christoffel Snijman's]] step-father the free-black [[Van_Bengale-18|Anthony Jansz: van Bengale]] for the payment of Rds. 93 being a debt which had fallen in arrears. [Mansell Upham] Source: * [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community] Page: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1195309237152485 Oct 5 at 8:4 am] Seen and added by [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] Oct 5, 2015.
: '''3 October 1695''': The burgher councillor (heemraad) [[Greeff-114|Matthias Greeff (from Magdeburg)]] who is also a surgeon, at the request of the provisional fiscal, Joan Blesius, states under oath that the wife of [[Walters-1046|Ernst Frederick Walters]] - [[Van_de_Caep-7|Catharina (Catrijn) van de Caep aka 'Kaet']] - freed private mestiça slave formerly belonging to Widow Diemer, Christina Dous] had come to him for help. [[Hattingh-248|Hans Heinrich Hattingh]] (from ''Speyer'' ['Spires' in the Rhineland-Palatinate]), attempting to slit her throat, had cut her hand instead ... Greeff, who bandages [[Van_de_Caep-7|Catrijn's]] wound, confirms that a knife caused the injury ... [[Walters-1046|Ernst Friedrich Walter]] (c. 1660-1697) from ''Breslau'' on the Oder River, Silesia [now ''Wroclow'', Poland] was a soldier & currier before becoming a free-burgher, neighbour & partner to the Cape-born mestiça [[Snijman-23|Christoffel Snijman]] ... [Mansell Upham] Source:* [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community] Page: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1194155830601159 3 Oct at 5:24 am] Seen and added by [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] Oct 4, 2015."I presume this Catrijn van de Caep http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g11/p11836.htm is not the same Catrijn as Catarina Wagenmakers http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6858.htm (because of the mention of Christoffel Snijman) ..." [question posted on [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community] Page: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1194155830601159 3 Oct at 5:24 am] Seen and added by [[Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt]] Oct 4, 2015.] Answer: "The [[Wagenmakers-8|latter]] is [[Snijman-23|Snijman's]] older halfslag half-sister (initially a Company slave like her exiled bandiet mother [[Van_Palicatte-2|Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta)]] while the [[Van_de_Caep-7|latter]] is a private halfslag slave that belonged to the Widow Diemer & possibly daughter of her slave Anna van Bengale who married Snijman's [[Walters-1046|neighbour & partner]] ... these women both feature in my article at the following link http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ui117.htm [Mansell Upham] on [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community] Page: [https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1194155830601159 5 Oct at 5:03 pm].

=== Death ===: Date: ''Christoffel Snyman'' passed away in 1705 or 1706 / about 1706 / before 1683. : Place: He passed away on ''Sandvliet Farm'' in Drakenstein Swellendam , Cape of Good Hope (the area around modern-day Franschoek Source:* [http://www.heritagesa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61:a-different-history-of-franschoek-and-the-drakenstein-district-submitted-by-alan-montgomery-march-2010&catid=3:branch-news&Itemid=52 A Different History of Franschoek and the Drakenstein District - Submitted by Alan Montgomery March 2010] [[Chapman-5484|Evan Snyman]] Sept 10 2014.) / / Cape Colony [South Africa]
: Age: 37

== Sources ==

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