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- She was from the Eifel region, today in Germany close to the borders of Belgium and Netherlands. ( "van Uts in't Land van Keulen") - probably Uesz (Ueß / Uess)
Arrived at the Cape on March 16, 1659, in the company of her brother Pieter and her two children
«i»Pieter raderotjes van Ut in 't lant van Ceulen, hier te lande gecoomen voor vrijman met 't schip Aernhem den 16en Meert ao. 1659 met sijn suster Fijtje raderotjes, huijsvrouwe van den vrijborger Jacob Cloeten (Resolusies van die Politieke Raad, C. 2, pp. 155-160, Woensdag den 10en November ao. 1660)«/i».
(Pieter Raderotjes of Ut in the land of Ceulen, landed ...from the ship "Aernhem" on March 16, 1659 with his sister Fijtje Raderotjes, housewife of the freeburgher Jacob Cloeten)
During the Khoikhoi uprising of 1659 her husband Jacob and a friend, Jan Martensz de Wacht, were watching their livestock when the Khoikhoi attacked. The women in the house raised the alarm and were able to drive them off. See Jacob Cloete for more information about the Khoikhoi uprising.
She died shortly after the birth of their youngest child, presumably from childbeirth.
The following is quoted from a post on the "First Fifty Years facebook page, by Mansell Upham:
(Shortly before her death) (1665) we have a fascinating description of the CLOETE home at their farm on the Liesbeeck which was originally the southern portion of the farm later known as "Ecklenburg" ["Eijklenberg"] & its amicable "half-naked & pregnant" mistress by Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) when writing about his visit (11 March-21 April 1665) to the Cape of Good Hope when sailing ex Batavia in the Return Fleet on the "Rysende Son":
... Here we saw also the life of the Dutch farmers, who around here (& even for a good distance inland) have established themselves & settled down, well knowing how to look after their cattle, by taking them in the morning out into a grassy pasture, or where it may be, & in the evening bringing them into the stables again, which is necessary because of the multitude of wild beasts, although otherwise these folk live in considerable poverty, at least most of those who dwell far inland.
I still remember how once the 3 of us wanderers had gone inland on a certain occasion, & were suddenly overtaken by dusk when we found ourselves near the most distant of the farm-houses, right behind the Table Mountain.
Because of the wild beasts we did not dare to go back in the dark of night so long a way as we had come in our wanderings; so we resolved to beg the poor farmer for shelter (but for good payment) & set our course for the solitary farm-house.
On coming there we were amicably greeted by the half-naked pregnant wife (from Cologne by birth), since her man was out, & invited into the little glassless house, & brought into the best room, which in this cold night was airy & chilly enough since there was no glass nor any shutters there.
And there, when the man [Jacob Cloete] came home we ate a truly frugal evening meal, the best the folk could provide.
Then (at our request) they made our bed or sleeping-place in the cowshed, where our diligent hostess threw some straw on the floor, & to make all as fine as might be spread over it a little piece of sailcloth.
This stable was full of oxen & cows, so that the cold, which was by now pretty overpowering, was made the more tolerable by these 4-footed companions.
Nevertheless we could sleep little for the first part of the night, because of a wanton calf that came into the stable (which was pretty long) & because of the strange visitors began to run about & make gay capers in the darkness, & over and over again was to be hard making for us at full gallop.
Thus we had enough to do to turn the calf away in his mad career, by our loud laughter & by all of us stretching out our legs, so as not to be overrun by his helter-skelter leaps.
But the diligent stableman was merrily on the go in this night-attack, & called to us reassuringly "Be of good cheer, Messieurs, I will manage to turn the crafty yearling away".
Meanwhile he defended himself with great bravery as a bold soldier in this calf-war, assuring us that a calf can see by night & would know how to avoid us in his scampering calf-leaps, which we also found to be true; yet all the efforts of the stableman were in vain.
So we let the calf scamper until it was tired, & in the morning found our bed-place sown with cow-dirt along the foot-end, with which it seemed to have honoured us in the night by way of welcome.
Rising, we paid our poor host, & set off again, & so came aboard, where we often reminded each other of our adventure with the scampering calf in the cowshed …
Note:
The stableman referred to above would have been one of the 3 knechts on record (1665) as being employed by Jacob Cloete
* Albert Barends: Gildenhausen - progenitor of the Geldenhuys family in SA] (from Burgsteinfurt in Westphalia)
* Willem Jansen (from Amsterdam) - later biological father to the illegitimate child of the Snyman stamvader / Cape-born mestiço Christoffel Snijman`s half-sister Petronella ...
* Jacob Hendricqsen (from Campen) ...
http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5324.htm
Wouter Schouten (1638-1704), - author of "Oost-Indische-Voyagie; vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene vreemde geschiedenissen, bloedige zee- en landtgevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Makassaren ...' (Amsterdam 1676)
[Mansell Upham
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Abt 1628 - 1665 (37 years)
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