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- Arrived at Cape in 1693 as soldier in the service of the V.O.C in Batavia. In 1695 went with ship "Selfstandigheid" [Independence] as junior surgeon, successor to junior surgeon Van Heel, to Mauritius. Started sugar industry through knowledge of sugar refining. Board Member of Mauritius. Went back to Batavia where he became a free burger in February 1704. Moved to Cape in 1705 with his four children as Surgeon at Stellenbosch. Heemraad from 1706.
Du Plooy.paf: He arrived in Batavia in 1693 as a soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he went to Mauritius as chief surgeon. In 1704 he received citizens rights, arriving in the Cape in 1705 and became a doctor in Stellenbosch. He came from Kolberg, Prussia, currently Kolobrzeg, Poland.
Stamvader Johannes Bockelenberg also known as Bockelberg was born in 1668. In 1693 he arrived in Batavia as a soldier from Kolberg. Kolobrzeg (AKA Kolberg) a town in the Polish Lowlands on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the river Prosnika. He was in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he left for Mauritius as chief surgeon. He married Magdalena Zaayman, daughter of Daniel Zaayman and Pieternella Meerhof. Magdalena died on 6 November 1704 and on 22 October 1705 Johannes married Johanna van der Bosch, dauhgter of stamvader Jan van der Bosch and Cornelia Helm. In 1705 Johanes arrived at the Cape and practised as doctor at Stellenbosch where he was also a district councillor.
Sources:
de Villiers and Pama, Genealogies of old S A Families 1981
Geëllustreerde Atlas van Europa (a Dutch promotional atlas, publisher not mentioned, published 1954)
Arriveer in Batavia 1693 as VOC soldaat van Kolberg. Kolobrzeg (AKA Kolberg) was 'n dorpie in die Poolse Laaglande langs die riviermond van die Prosnika aan die Baltiese See. In 1697 vertrek hy na Mauritius as hoof chirurgyn.
Na sy eerste vrou ('n kleindogter van Pieter Meerhof en Eva Kroroa) se dood verkry hy burgerregte in 1704 en kom in 1705 aan die Kaap aan (met Pieternella se 3 dogtertjies). Hy werk later as dokter op Stellenbosch. Hy was ook 'n "district councillor" hier.
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He seems to have spent circa 1697 until about 1700 as junior surgeon on Mauritius.
He appears then to have been transferred to Batavia as Chief Surgeon, from whence he, his wife and his children returned to Mauritius some time in 1704.
J.A.Hoge states that his wife died on 6th November, 1704 and that he and his children then transferred to the Cape where they arrived in 1705, settling in Stellenbosch. Certainly, he married in Stellenbosch on the 5th October 1705.
His farm in Stellenbosch, Moddergat, 54 morgen in size, was sold from his estate 7th August 1709 to Nicolaas Gockelius and immediately sold on by him to Theunis de Bruijn. The original grant was dated 3rd December 1692 but to whom it was made is not stated. (MOOC 9/1/39)
Sources for his history before 1705, which is an amalgamation and interpretation of conflicting statements:
1. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Received 1695-1708, by H.C.V. Leibbrandt, Cape Town, 1896, Pages 93, 99, 174, 197, 339. and 2. Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, by J.A.Hoge, Cape - Times Limited, 1947, page 37.
He arrived in Batavia in 1693 as a soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he went to Mauritius as chief surgeon. In 1704 he received citizens rights, arriving in the Cape in 1705 and became a doctor in Stellenbosch. He came from Kolberg, Prussia, currently Kolobrzeg, Poland.
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Johannes BOCKELENBERG
Stamvader Johannes Bockelenberg also known as Bockelberg was born in 1668. In 1693 he arrive d in Batavia as a soldier from Kolberg. Kolobrzeg (AKA Kolberg) a town in the Polish Lowlands on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the river Prosnika. He was in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1697 he left for Mauritius as chief surgeon. He married Magdalena Zaayman, daughter of Daniel Zaayman and Pieternella Meerhof. Magdalena died on 6 November, 1704 and on 22 October, 1705 Johannes married Johanna van der Bosch, dauhgter of stamvader Jan van der Bosch and Cornelia Helm. In 1705 Johanes arrived at the Cape and practised as doctor at Stellenbosch where he was also a district councillor.
Sources:
de Villiers and Pama, Genealogies of old S A Families 1981Geëllustreerde Atlas van Europa (a Dutch promotional atlas, publisher not mentioned, published 1954)
married (1) Magdalena Zaaijman died before 1709
BOCKELBERG, JOHANNES (S) .-Kolberg in Pomerania. * 1668. Arrived at Batavia 1693 as so . ; later appointed chief-surgeon. In 1697 he was sent as chief-surgeon to Mauritius and commissioned to establish a sugar refinery . About the same time he was married to Magdalena Zaayman, d. of Daniel Zaayman and Petronella Meerhof, d. of Peter M . of Copenhagen and Eva of the C. In 1704 he was granted burgher rights by the government of Batavia. His wife died 6 .11 .1704 and B. went with his children to the Cape, where he arrived in 1705 and settled as surgeon at Stellenbosch . On 12.10.1705 he was remarried to Johanna van den Bosch . He was elected Heemraad and died 1709 . He had 6 children, 4 by his first wife and 2 by his second.
(Vrybrief dated Batavia, the last of February, 1704 ; Leibbrandt, Letters desp . 1696-1708, pp . 59 f. and 263, Letters rec . 1695-1708 nr. 344 ; Letter of Pieter Zaayman to Bockelberg, dated 18.4.1706, in MOOC 14:212 ; Wills in Stellenbosch Arch ., vol . 647:12 and Test . O.C. 1:59 and 2:33 ; G.R. nr. 256. ) [39]
- (Research):Geboorteplek kan ook wees: Kolobrzeg, Koszalinskiego, Poland
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Born circa 1668, Colberg in Hinderpoomeren
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1668 - 1709 (41 years)
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