Vernon Harding's Registers

November 13, 2019
Vernon is compiling Bornman Registers and completed the register of Myndert Jacobus Bornman and Marthinus Hermanus Bornman.  Read more about it under South African Family Tree or send him your information via an online form:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PLJDtwdKh8le82-2mjJcQ4hJzZyZmprvVe7NFr8RTj4/edit 

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Hieronymus as a mercenary soldier

February 14, 2014
Research shows that Germans arriving in the Cape in 1780's were mostly mercenary soldiers from Europe employed by the VOC to protect the Cape.  A very good read on the subject is the book:  Cape Town Between East and West:  Social identities in a Dutch Colonial Town by Nigel Warden.  (Google the name and read from page 176 on Soldiers and Cape Town Society and from page 188 about the mercenary soldiers arriving.)  

According to him the following regiments arrived in Cape Town;  Pondicherry, Le...
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Date of death, Hieronymus

August 23, 2013
I received positive feedback on the website.  Thank you!  Cas Bornman send me a interesting piece concerning Hieronymus' date of death and an inventory of his goods and effects at the time.  According to information on TANAP that deals with records from the VOC, he was a sergeant in the Hollands Batallion and died on 30 May 1797 at the age of 39.  There is a very interesting inventory made by a notary on request of his widow.  The last item on the list:  "een slavinne genaamd Marta van Bougie...
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