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Cape Town Marriages 1665 to 1695

The members of the original settlement at the Cape from 1652 onwards were supplied by the Dutch East India Company with a sieketrooster (a lay reader). He held Sunday services where he was allowed to read sermons (but not preach) and to instruct the children in their religion, but not to offer communion, or to marry or baptise. Sieketroosters up to 1665 were Willem Wylant, Pieter van der Staal, Ernestus Back and Jan Jorisz Greef.

Marriages were conducted either by the Commander (civil marriages were part of the normal system in the Netherlands) or by ministers passing on ships calling at the Cape and these latter also conducted any baptisms required.

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Cape Town Marriages 1665 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7011
Cape Town Marriages 1666 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6908
Cape Town Marriages 1667 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7041
Cape Town Marriages 1668 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7561
Cape Town Marriages 1669 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6865
Cape Town Marriages 1670 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7832
Cape Town Marriages 1671 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7146
Cape Town Marriages 1672 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 8220
Cape Town Marriages 1673 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7144
Cape Town Marriages 1674 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6917
Cape Town Marriages 1675 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6694
Cape Town Marriages 1676 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 9309
Cape Town Marriages 1677 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6922
Cape Town Marriages 1678 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6760
Cape Town Marriages 1679 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7069
Cape Town Marriages 1680 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7096
Cape Town Marriages 1681 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6702
Cape Town Marriages 1682 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7205
Cape Town Marriages 1683 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7427
Cape Town Marriages 1684 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7135
Cape Town Marriages 1685 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 8765
Cape Town Marriages 1686 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6938
Cape Town Marriages 1687 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6735
Cape Town Marriages 1688 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 8629
Cape Town Marriages 1689 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7428
Cape Town Marriages 1690 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 9366
Cape Town Marriages 1691 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7824
Cape Town Marriages 1692 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7367
Cape Town Marriages 1693 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7450
Cape Town Marriages 1694 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 6864
Cape Town Marriages 1695 transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller 7256

Source: This transcription has been made from photographs of the Cape Archives Verbatim copies document VC 603 - Cape Town baptisms, memberships and marriages 1665-1695, which is a photocopy the original register, now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1-1/1. This photocopy was made for the Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a copy was donated to the South African Archives, a copy going to the Cape Town Repository (VC series) and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series).
The marriages cover pages 75 through 91 of this register.

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