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From: "Marthie Bredenkamp" <>
Subject: Re: Verbatum Copies VOC records
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:36:21 +0200


Busy with family researching on two family's
My husbands family Bredenkamp come to South Africa as a soldier
with Voc (H.O.I. Kompanje) in 1763 His name was Johannes Christoffel
Bredenkamp or it could be Breitenkamp from Germany.

My mothers family Henning he was a soldier for the VOC (H.O.I.
Kompanje)
and arrived in 1765 and he is from Germany. His name was Pieter
Hendrik Henning or Peter Henrich Henning
Any information please and the ships name.
Maybe the date could be differed.

Marhie

----- Original Message -----
From: Gerda <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Verbatum Copies VOC records

> Dear Lesley
>
> I would be very interested in any developments re access to VOC
> records in The Hague. There is an "Emigrants" website (the Dutch
> Trilogy) with lots of information about migration to USA and Canada,
> but nothing yet about SA. Even the ships that brought most to SA
> shores are listed there as carriers to the "New World".
>
> Access to this information is essential to all South Africans who
want
> to trace their families in the countries of origin. To date I have
> had no response to snail-mail queries, but it's early days still.
>
> Regards
>
> gerda
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lesley Robertson <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Verbatum Copies
>
>
> >
> > A few years ago Lesley Robertson very kindly shared information
with
> us
> > which she extracted from Rolls of VOC Military and civilian staff
at
> the
> > Cape. It contained useful information on their place of origin,
> ships they
> > came out on, occupation, service, discharge and other details.
Many
> of
> > these VOC employees stayed on and became our ancestors. Surely
the
> benefits
> > of having access to this kind of information outweighs cost of
photo
> > copying?
> >
> > I would like to know if others think there would be a demand for
SA
> related
> > material in The Hague and which local organisations to presurise
> into doing
> > something about it. If done correctly, the Dutch may consider it
a
> > donation to the upliftment of cultural values of their third world
> cousins!
>
> The organisation that holds this stuff is the National Archives -
and
> they are VERY resistant to any ideas about photo-copying VOC
records.
> It goes beyond reason (e.g. fading from copying, etc) as they won't
> even allow daylight photography (which is why I still haven't sorted
> all those wills out). On the other hand, it wouldn't be easy to do -
> some of these books are HUGE (the opgave rolls I circulated before
> took up 3 reading positions when open), bound into volumes so thick
> that they can't be opened flat (this is where the wills are bound
> in), and many are in poor condition (especially the ship's logs).
The
> binding was done by the VOC, back when the documents were current,
> and many seem to be collected in the order in which they came to
> hand.
> They hold several kilometers of VOC records, only a small
> amount of which relates to the Cape Colony (and with the ethnic
> spread in the Netherlands, the Indonesian stuff attracts far more
> attention). They do have their index on line on their web site
> http://www.archief.nl/ . I would be very interested to hear how
> they respond to a query or request from abroad (as opposed to me
> turning up at their desk).
> I'm busy doing some volunteer translation work for them (dutch >
> english) and have been hoping that the good will this builds up will
> give me access with a digital camera.
> Lesley Robertson
>
> ********************************************************************
> Dr Lesley A. Robertson CBiol FIBiol
> Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology, Delft University of
Technology,
> Julianalaan 67, 2628BC, Delft,The Netherlands
> tel 31 15 2782421; fax 31 15 2782355; email
> .
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