Jan Janse van Eeden

1637 - 1704  (67 years)

• Name	Jan Janse van Eeden  [1]
  Born	1637	Oldenburg
  Gender	Male
  Died	1704	the Cape
  Person ID	I333	JA_Vorster1961
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2000

  
  

  Family	Maria Russaar,   b. Bef 1670, Blois, France
  Married	13 Jul 1688	the Cape
  Children	1. Frederik van Eeden,   b. 1694
  Family ID	F157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1662 as "onderscheepskorporaal" and later "smid". Became a Burgher of Stellenbosch in 1688. He hired Bastiaan Caevel to teach his children and was deacon of the Cape Town Church from 1700 - 1701. In 1671 he married his first wife, Lysbeth Jansz from Amsterdam. In 1677 he returned to the Netherlands with her because of her misuse of alcohol in which he joined her. They returned to the Cape in 1682 but he divorced her in May 1684 on the grounds of adultry. In December of the same year, she was sent to a punitive institution for women in Batavia as a result of her "loose life" He married Marria Russaar from Blois, France on 13/7/1688 and they had 9 children. Also called Johann.

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] Die Groot Afrikaanse Familie-naamboek, Pama, C, (Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 1983), Pg 339.