NO. 58. — 1907.] JOAN GIDEON LOTEN, F.R.S. 



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Johannes Blesius of Breukelen, married, 22nd April 1685, 

 Christina Diemer, and had by her : — 



1. Gysberta Johanna, baptized in the Cape, 23rd June 

 1686, married Governor Rumpf.* 



2. Christina, baptized in the Cape, 24th September 1690, 

 married Jacobus Cruse, f 



3. Deliana, baptized in the Cape, 29th November 1693. 



Pieter de Bevere. 



I agree with Mr. Anthonisz that Pieter de Bevere was the 

 son of David Willemsz de Bevere and Christina de Kelcq, but 

 I do not know where Mr. Anthonisz got the information that 

 Christina was the natural daughter of Willem de Kelcq, master 

 sailmaker, and Anna Coere. Willem Jansz de Kelcq, of Dor- 

 drecht, sailmaker, was married in Colombo, 3rd September 

 1690, to Dominga Harmensz, of Colombo. From a woman 

 called Maria Lucas he (de Kelcq) had an illegitimate daughter, 

 Wilhelmina, baptized in Colombo, 3rd May 1711. Dominga 

 Harmensz was perhaps the daughter of Hendrik Harmensz of 

 Norden, a brazier in Colombo in 1669, thereafter a vrijburger , 

 by his wife Dona Dominga. In the catalogue referred to by 

 Mr. Ferguson at the commencement of his paper de Bevere is 

 called a sieur, which I think has a peculiar significance. It 

 means that he held the rank of a boekhouder. ValentynJ 

 says : " De onderkoopman, die als seur of boekhouder van ons 

 schip medevoer, was Jakobus Valentyn, enz." 



This confirms Mr. Anthonisz's statement regarding the status 

 of de Bevere in 1757. Governor Lot en's statement that 

 Major de Bevere " was of the most noble and ancient family 

 of de Bevere" I think requires confirmation. Vorsteman van 

 Oyen § makes no reference to him. 



* Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., No. 56, p. 326. She married 

 (as widow Rumpf) in Batavia, 16th March 1726, Mr. Everhard Kray* 

 vanger of Macassar, Advocate Fiscal of India, widower of Maria Catha- 

 rina de Vos (24 Nederlandsche Leeuw 24). 



t Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., No. 56, p. 327. 



| Van en naar Indie, by A. W. Stellwagen, p. 126. 



§ Aanzienlyke Familien (de Beveren). 



