2 years after Maria Kickers maried in 1683 , Simon van der Stel in 1685 requested orphans brides
Was Maria maybe part of the first 20 requested by van Riebeeck
'Jan van Riebeeck had already in 1659 requested that the Council of Seventeen (of the Dutch East India Company) send out at least 20 marriageable girls from Europe to the Cape settlement.
In 1685 Simon van der Stel made a similar request, differing in that he asked for between 30 and 40 girls. The Council of Seventeen reacted favourably to this request and decided to send 40 farm girls to the Cape. Suitable girls were apparently not so readily obtainable and in the event only 8 orphan girls from Rotterdam,
As far as I know, the only orphan girls to come to the Cape are on the ship China in 1688? https://www.geni.com/projects/China-Huguenot-Ship-to-the-Cape/38321
GEDCOM Note
An orphan from Netherlands (Heese Vol 1, p. 360). divorce d from Jan Cornelisz 1700. Most of her children have the father as Jan Cornelis "Saam met die weesmeisies wat Simon van der Stel na die Kaa p gebring het, was ene Maria Kickers, wat latergetroud i s met ene Jan-Cornelis Bot (later Botha) van Stellenbosch . Maar -- so vertel my groottantes uit die Kaap -- Jan-Corn elis Bot was manlik nie reg geskape nie. Gelukkig vir ons B otha-nasate het sy broer Frederick Bot as bywoner by hom op die plaas gebly, doodgewillig en baie reg geskape. Uit d ie verhouding van Maria en Frederick is al die Botha-nakom elinge gebore. En hoewel hulle later tog getroud is en ona fhanklik geword en die plaas Zanberg, die later Scholtzhof, in dieHelderburgse wyk gekoop het, was die kin ders dus almal buite-egtelik.
"Systap onder die Juk., Dot Serfontein.,
Human & Rousseau, Kaapstad., 1969., bl 81 8 38.368SER.
yet Heese never mentioned her as orphan another myth --1. J.A.Heese, Die Hollandse Weesmeisies, In: Familia, 1976, no 3. All further quotes from this article, which is written in Afrikaans, are my own translations into English.
J.A.Heese in his article[1](based on an article in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift of 1882) gives a list of 10 young women:
Willemijntjie Ariens de Wit
Adriaantjie Jacobs
Catharina van der Zee
Anna Eltrop van Kleef
Engelte Cornelissen
Adriaante Janse
Adriana van Zon
Petronella van Capelle
Judith van der Bout and
Judith Verbeek
Maar -- so vertel my groottantes uit die Kaap -- Jan-Corn elis Bot was manlik nie reg geskape nie. Gelukkig vir ons B otha-nasate het sy broer Frederick Bot as bywoner by hom op die plaas gebly, doodgewillig en baie reg geskape. Uit d ie verhouding van Maria en Frederick is al die Botha-nakom elinge gebore.
:-) Well this explains a lot - including the affair with Ferdinandus Appel :-)
16 November 1706
Sij persisteerde bij haare gedane confessie en sustineerde dat se met beloften en trouw die se mal- kanderen onder vier oogen geswooren hebben, so wel alsof se met den anderen in huwelijk waren getreeden kunnen volstaan, en dat se dierhalven als man en vrouw eenige jaren met den anderen hebben geleefd, en vleeschelijk geconverseert hebbende tesamen in deese boelasie agt kinderen geprocreert (Crim. en Civ. 1701-'08, 16 Nov. 1706. p 47)
Maria claimed all Bothas no Appel or Cornelisz children
Who was Jacobus Bota van de Caap married to Elsje Snyman 22 October 1713
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LX3-V8P?i=7&c...