Pieter VAN DER BYL, b1^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}

1659 - 1723  (64 years)

• Name	Pieter VAN DER BYL  [11]
  Suffix	b1
  Born	14 Jan 1659	Overschie, near Rotterdam, Netherlands   [10]
  Christened	1 Jan 1661	Overschie, near Rotterdam, Netherlands   [11, 12]
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Oct 1723	Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa   [10, 11]
  Person ID	I30083	PedigreeFAGreeffEsagi
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	Gerhard Pieterzoon VAN DER BYL, progenitor,   b. Abt 1640, Overschie, near Rotterdam, Netherlands ,   d. 29 Apr 1698, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Mother	Sophia VAN DEN TEMPEL,   b. Abt 1642, Overschie, near Rotterdam, Netherlands ,   d. 18 Aug 1701, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	29 Apr 1668	Vollenhove, Overijsel, Netherlands   [11]
  Family ID	F6777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Aletta VAN DER WESTHU(I)(Y)(S)(Z)EN,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2009
  Family ID	F116689	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Anna Sophia BOSCH, a1b2,   b. Abt 1672, Cape Town, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 17 Mar 1701, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age ~ 29 years)
  Married	29 Aug 1688	Cape Town, Cape, South Africa   [10, 13]
  Notes	Married: Alt Marriage: Unknown Date: 29 Aug 1688 Location: Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa
  Children	1. Geertruy VAN DER BYL, b1c1,   b. 9 Sep 1689, 'Vredenburg', Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 25 Jan 1765, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 75 years)   2. Emma VAN DER BYL,   b. 8 Aug 1693, Babylon`s Toren, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 22 Sep 1728, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 35 years)   3. Sophia VAN DER BIJL,   b. 15 Jun 1699, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. Cape, South Africa + 4. Maria Sophia VAN DER BYL, b1c4,   b. 3 Mar 1701, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 1725, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 23 years) + 5. Gerrit VAN DER BYL, b1c6,   b. 20 Jul 1704, Vredenburg, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 5 Apr 1767, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 62 years) + 6. Catherina VAN DER BYL, b1c9,   b. 3 Aug 1710, Vredenburg, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 8 Apr 1738, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 27 years)
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2009
  Family ID	F4243	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Hester TERWINKEL,   b. 29 Mar 1671, Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands ,   d. 1 Dec 1743, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 72 years)
  Married	1 Dec 1702	Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa   [10, 13]
  Children	1. Lambertus VAN DER BIJL,   b. Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Rykie VAN DER BIJL,   b. Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 29 Jun 1781   3. Anna VAN DER BIJL,   b. 29 Apr 1703, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 21 Jul 1752, Joostenberg, Cape, South Africa  (Age 49 years) + 4. Gerrit VAN DER BYL, b1c6,   b. 20 Jul 1704, Vredenburg, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 5 Apr 1767, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 62 years)   5. Rykje VAN DER BYL, b1c8,   c. 23 May 1708,   d. 29 Jun 1781  (Age ~ 73 years) + 6. Catherina VAN DER BYL, b1c9,   b. 3 Aug 1710, Vredenburg, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 8 Apr 1738, Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa  (Age 27 years)   7. Pieter VAN DER BYL, b1c10,   b. Abt 1714, 'Vredenburg', Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa ,   d. 27 Nov 1789, De Vyffontein, Malmesbury, Cape, South Africa  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2009
  Family ID	F4246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  farmer and heemraad Van der B. came to the Cape with his mother shortly after 1668. At first he lived with his parents on asmall farm of thirteen morgen called Varietas in Table Valley, at the foot of the Windberg, but in April 1680 his father moved toStellenbosch. On 29.8.1688 Van der B. married Anna Sophia Bosch (26.6.1672- 17.3.1701) in Cape Town and the young couple went to live on the farm Vredenburgh, where Van der B.'s father was farming. In 1692 Van der B. was granted the farm 'Babylon's Toren', but after his father's death in 1698 returned to settle on Vredenburgh which consisted of fifty-two morgen, 141 square roods, on the northern bank of the Eerste River, just west of Libertas. When his first wife died he married Hester ter Winkel. (1702) In 1704 he was granted a third farm, Vijffontein (later Klavervalleij), consisting of sixty morgen and 500 roods. He also owned a stand in Cape Town, No. 6 in block D, on the Eerste Bergdwars Street which he sold in 1715 and a year later boughta farm from a certain Barend Lubbe. It comprised thirty-eight morgen and was only a few kilometres from Vredenburgh. Shortly before his death he also bought the farm De Voorspoed (sixty morgen in size) at Riebeeck's Kasteel. Apart from his farming interests Van der B. began to play an important role in the community. in 1687 his name was mentioned as ensign of the Stellenbosch Dragoons and in 1695 he acted as lieutenant of a company of free burghers fromDrakenstein. He became heemraad for the first time in 1695, being recorded as such with some interruption in the documents of the Company until 1720. He served the Church as a deacon from 1697 onwards, from 1702 until his death. in September1719 he was given the honour of laying the cornerstone of the first church in Stellenbosch. Van der B. played an important part in the struggle against W.A. van der Stel and his officials; as he was a neighbour of Adam Tas, Van der B.s name occurs repetedly in the latter's diary. In 1706 he, Jan van Meerland, Henning Husing,Ferdinandus Appel were exciled to the netherlands, where they submitted a petition to the Seventeen. This led to the recall of the Governor and some of his friends. During van der B.'s absence in the netherlands his wife hester continued thebattle against Johannes Starrenburg(h), who was a friend of the Van der Stel's, and on 18.9.1706 she and the wife of Wessel Pretorius demonstated against Starrenburg(h) in public. By July the following year Van der B. and his fellow exciles had returned to their country in triumph. There were three sons and seven daughters of Van der B.'s two marriages. Two of the sons, gerrit and Pieter, ahd descendants. Pieter's sons all died bachelors, however, so that when Van der B. died Gerrit was the sole ancestor of the Van der Bijl family in south Africa. A.J. Boeseken Dictionary of South African Biography Vol IV Farmed Babylons Toren, Drakenstein and Vredenburg, Stellenbosch. 29.8.1688 trou "Pieter van der Beijl jongman geboortigh van Overschie met Sophia Bos J. dogter van de Caap." Pieter was die s/v Gerrit van der Bijl en Sophia van den Tempel en is gedoop 14.1.1659. Hy boer op Babilonstoren, Drakenstein en Vredenburg, Stellenbosch. (Anna) Sophia = 26.6.1672 was d/v Dirk Bosch en Geertruyd Meijntinghs. Pieter trou c1702 met Hester ter Winkel. Hy sterf 9.10.1723. [11]

  
  

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