Hendrick Elbertsz van Osenbrugge

1625 - 1699  (74 years)

• Name	Hendrick Elbertsz van Osenbrugge
  Birth	1625	Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	1699	Stellenbosch, South Africa
  Person ID	I6333	Database
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2023

  
  

  Spouse / Partner 1	Aletta ter Meulen,   b. Schüttorf, Niedersachsen, Germany d. Bef 1671, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  Family ID	F2645	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2016

  
  

  Spouse / Partner 2	Catherina de Vooght   d. Stellenbosch, South Africa
  Marriage	1671	Stellenbosch, South Africa
  Family ID	F2646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Also written as Hendrik (Hendricq) Aelbertsen and Elbrechtsen In 1656 Hendrick Elbertsz van Osenbrugge (Freeman in 1657) was listed as an Adelborst in the new Dutch community of South Africa, which consisted of only 120 people. He was first married to Aletta ter Meulen and in 1671 he married Catherina de Vooght. Coincidentally, in Arnhem there was Ernst van Ossenbrugge, who eloped with and married a Catharina de Vooght in 1661. He was listed as an "adelborst", which translates as a "Midshipman". However, at that time it meant that the person was of noble descent. Wikipedia: Een adelborst is een marineofficier in opleiding aan het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine (KIM). Bij andere krijgsmachtonderdelen dan de marine heet zo iemand vaker een cadet. Het woord adelborst is een verbastering van het woord adelbursche, dat is edelknaap. De naam stamt nog uit de tijd dat enkel jongens uit families van adel toegelaten werden tot de officiersopleiding. De Engelse benaming van deze rang is Midshipman, de Duitse Seekadett en de Russische Mitsjman. Hendrik Elbertz was the first owner of the original farm, Vredenburgh. Hendrik was born in 1625 in Osnabruk, Germany, and died in 1699 in Stellenbosch. He was married to Aletta ter Meulen (Molen) of Schüttorf in Hanover. Nine children were born out of the marriage, eight of whom went on to outlive Hendrik. Hendrick Elbertz was one of the 9 officials who, on the 21st of February 1657, received "vrybriewe" from the Dutch East India Company, and became one of the first independent farmers ("boere") in the Cape. In May 1660, he was promoted to Corporal of the Vryburgers, who lived along the Liesbeeck River. On the 31st of January in 1678, Hendrik took his dismissal from the service of the VOC and rented the outpost at Hottentots Holland, and in doing so became one of the first livestock farmers in the country's interior. (The Hottentots Holland outpost is known today as Vergelegen). Read much more about him here: https://vanosnabrugge.org/docs/Hendrik-Elberts-Zuid-Africa.pdf

  
  

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  Birth - 1625 - Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany Marriage - 1671 - Stellenbosch, South Africa Death - 1699 - Stellenbosch, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth