Johan Grobbelaar^[1]

- 1735

• Name	Johan Grobbelaar
  Gender	Male
  Death	1735  [2]
  Person ID	I8341	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family	Geertruyd Knoetzen,   c. 7 Nov 1706
  Marriage	1715  [3]
  Children	1. Catharina Grobbelaar,   c. 12 Sep 1717   2. Coert Grobbelaar,   c. to 26 Nov 1730   3. Cornelia Grobbelaar,   c. 28 Aug 1718   4. Cornelis Grobbelaar,   c. 31 Mar 1736   5. Dirkje Grobbelaar,   c. 6 Apr 1733   6. Dorothea Grobbelaar,   c. 18 Apr 1728   7. Geertruy Grobbelaar,   c. 31 Dec 1724   8. Jan Grobbelaar,   c. 9 Feb 1716   9. Nicolaas Grobbelaar,   c. 25 Dec 1723   10. Petrus Grobbelaar,   c. 5 Apr 1722   11. Willem Grobbelaar,   c. 12 May 1720
  Family ID	F302712749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Stamvader Johan GROBLER (GROBBELAAR) was born in Tangermünde, a town 100 km west from Berlin, Germany. He came to South Africa in about 1708. He was then in the service of the VOC and was employed as a woodcutter and later as a transport driver. We find him in 1712 in the service of Christiaan Maasdorp as a farm labourer. He became a free burger in 1715 and in the same year he married Geertruyd KNOESEN who was baptised on 11 July 1706 daughter of stamvader Cornelis Knoetzen and Dirkje Helms. (This marriage date would make her 9 years old - but perhaps she was not baptised in the year of her birth) Stamvader: Johan(n) Grobler of Grobbelaar, van Tangermünde (Duitsland). Kom ca. 1708 hier aan; 1708-13 houtkapper in diens van die V.O.C.; later boerekneg. Burger in 1715; trou dieselfde jaar met Geertruyd Knoetzen, ged. 11.7.1706 (11 kinders). JOHANN (S Grobler). - Tangermünde. Woodcutter 1708-12, wagon-driver 1713, loaned as farmhand to Christian Maasdorf 1.8.1713-2.4.1715, b. 1715. ~ (1715 ?) Geertruyd Knoetsen. 11 children. (GMR 1708-13; CJ 1126: 36; CJ 1205: 16; CJ 1259: 145; G.R. nr. 146.) Cf. Hans Jürgen Hermann.

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] de Villiers, C.C., revised by Pama, C., Genealogies of Old South African Families, (Published A.A Balkema, Cape Town, 1981 ISBN 0-86961-136-4), entry for Grobbelaar (Reliability: 3). [S1402] Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa, (http://databases.tanap.nl/mooc/), MOOC8/5.90 Inventary of the late Jan Grobbelaar (Reliability: 3). [S70] C. Pama, Die Groot Afrikaanse Familienaamboek, (Published by Human & Rousseau ISBN 0 7981 1618 8), Entry for Grobbelaar (Reliability: 3).