Hans Jacob Brits^{[1, 2, 3]}

- 1729

• Name	Hans Jacob Brits
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Feb 1729  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I8525	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family	Dina Willemsz Olivier,   c. 28 Jul 1675, Cape of Good Hope, d. 1722 (Age ~ 46 years)
  Marriage	15 Feb 1729  [1, 2]
  Children	1. Aletta Brits   2. Anna Maria Brits,   c. 4 Oct 1699   3. Cornelis Brits   4. Geertruy Brits,   c. 10 Oct 1694   5. Johannes Brits,   c. 2 May 1717   6. Magdalena Brits,   c. 13 Apr 1692   d. 1739 (Age ~ 46 years)   7. Maria Brits   8. Ockert Brits,   c. 13 Sep 1705   9. Rudolf Brits,   c. 24 Dec 1702   10. Rudolph Brits,   c. 28 Sep 1698   11. Sophia Brits,   c. 4 Nov 1714, Cape of Good Hope,
  Family ID	F302712795	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Hans Jacob Brits of Prits, van Stein (Duitsland). Kom in 1682 hier aan as soldaat; 1684 burger op Stellenbosch. In 1722 het hy op die plaas "Koornhof" (Coornhoop?) aan die Liesbeek gewoon. Oorl. 15.2.1729. Trou met Dina Willemse, van Mauritius, dogter van Willem Willemse, van Deventer (Nederland), en Maria Jansz Visser, van Ommen (Nederland) (11 kinders). Personalia of Germans at the Cape BRITS HANS JACOB. - Stein. Arr. 1682 as so., b. 6.5.1684, resident at Stellenbosch (1685), later (1722) on the farm "Koornhof" on the Liesbeeck River. ~ 15.2.1729. Dina Willemse (born on Mauritius, d. of Willem Willemse and Maria Jansz Visser). 11 children. (V.C. 56; G.R. nr. 60; Bdlr. 1: 128; Inv. O.C. 4: 85; Bdlr. 1:48; MOOC 14:2 under Maria Visser.) Note. Willem Willems was identical with Willem Willems who went with his wife from the Cape to Mauritius (see Theal, "History", II, p. 235). Brits' wife was also called Dina Cornelisse, Dina Ockers and. Dina Olivier (Baptismal Reg. under 13.4.1692, 10.10.1694, 24.12.1702), because, according to information from Prof. J. L. M. Franken, she was said to be the daughter of the burgher Ockert Cornelisz Olivier. Brits' daughter Sophia died before her father; Sophia Brits married to J. Carstens, C. J. Kock and J. A. Schultz (G.R., I, p. 120), was a daughter of Hans Jacob Brits' son Cornelis (see Gerrit Gerrits of Oldenburg). Hans Jacob Brits or Prits, from Stein (Germany). Arrived in 1682 as a soldier, in 1684 burger Stellenbosch. In 1722 he was living on the farm "Koornhof" on the Liesbeek (present day Rondebosch)

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] South Africas Stamouers, (http://www.stamouers.com/). [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 Brits (Reliability: 3). [S997] Mansell Upham, Hell and Paradise, (February 2012. Downloaded from The First Fifty Years project http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ on September 3, 2012).