Johannes Frederik Hendrik Van Ryneveld ^1,2,3

  Birth Notes:

Copy of Johannes Fredrik Hendrik Van Ryneveld's Death Notice # 4911 in RAB's possession. It records he was born in The Cape of Good Hope.
It records he was 63 years 6 months and 6 days old when he died on 23 January 1858. Cal 17 July 1794

And

http://www.geni.com/people/Antionette-van-Ryneveld/6000000011451185743

Says 1797

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http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500364255739&lds=1®ion=0®ionfriendly=&juris1=SAfr&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=®ionfriendly=&juris1friendly=South+Africa&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=

says 1795

And

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=100300216254&lds=1®ion=0&frompage=1

Says 1797

And

http://ancestry24.com/?group=on&s=search&srchName=First+Names&srchSurname=van+ryneveld&submit=%C2%A0

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http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/10855049/person/-567709711/photo/6d06eaf7-f605-42e4-8304-94a479202c93?src=search

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http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=FT1333443

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http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1029886

  Christening Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11628-19120-32?cc=1478678&wc=MMLQ-WRP:1506750432

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11628-19120-32?cc=1478678

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XK4W-L58

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11628-19120-32?cc=1478678&wc=MMLQ-WRP:1506750432

  Death Notes:

Copy of Johannes Fredrik Hendrik Van Ryneveld's Death Notice # 4911 in RAB's possession. It records he died at his own residence in Clanwilliam.

And

http://www.geni.com/people/Antionette-van-Ryneveld/6000000011451185743

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT KAB
SOURCE MOOC
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 6/9/81
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 4911
PART 1
DESCRIPTION VAN RYNEVELD, JOHANNES FREDRIK HENDRIK. DEATH NOTICE.
STARTING 1858
ENDING 1858

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9727-XPH

And

http://ancestry24.com/?group=on&s=search&srchName=First+Names&srchSurname=van+ryneveld&submit=%C2%A0


And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/10855049/person/-567709711/photo/6d06eaf7-f605-42e4-8304-94a479202c93?src=search

And

http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=FT1333443

And

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1029886

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vhttp://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/12374421/person/633124804/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum

  Burial Notes:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=100300216254&lds=1®ion=0&frompage=1

And

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/10855049/person/-567709711/photo/6d06eaf7-f605-42e4-8304-94a479202c93?src=search

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http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1029886

  Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• General Comment. AJVR notes list his name as Johannes Frederick Hendrik whereas his mother's will lists Jan Hendrik Fredrik. The will which reads as follows:-

Inventory of the property of Mrs Martha Cornelia van der Riet widow of the late Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld Esq:re relinquished by her death on the 25th day of the month of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six at one o'clock in the morning.

The deceased having by her last will and testament executed on the 6 February 1815 before the late notary Mr Gerrit Buyskes and witnesses (after having bequeathed several legacies, and made several other disposition, which partly had been duly executed, previous to her demise, in compliance with the directions of the worshipful the Court of Justice dated 14th August 1823 and in conformity to the decision of the Board dated 27 of the same month) appointed her sole and universal heirs her children, namely

1) Daniel Johannes van Ryneveld
2) Maria van Ryneveld married with Charles Napier
3) Willem Cornelis van Ryneveld
4) Anna Maria van Ryneveld widow of George Napier
5) Helperus Ritzema van Ryneveld
6) Johanna Magdalena van Ryneveld married with Robert Crozier
7) Martha Cornelia van Ryneveld married with Jac:s Joh:s Gysb:s van Reede van Oudtshoorn
8) Jan Hendrik Fredrik van Ryneveld


and moreover requested and appointed the worshipful Board of Orphan Masters of this Colony to be and to act as her executors.

Later in the will mention is made of:-
Joh:s Fred:k Hend:k van Ryneveld according to a mortgage bond dated 17 Dec:br 1823 amounting ƒ3945:8 or 1315:8
interest from 15 Nov:br 1823

Also

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=linsul&id=I1263

lists a Jan Hendrik Frederik

• Military Service. Midshipman J.F.H. Van Ryneveld, Royal Navy:
Johannes Frederik Hendrik Van Ryneveld was a brother of captain W.C. Van Ryneveld of the 93rd Foot. He served in the Royal Navy at the time of the Napoleonic Wars and is purported to have witnessed the deposed French Emperor, Napoleon, boarding H.M.S. "Bellerophon". J.F.H. Van Ryneveld later returned to South Africa where he served as resident magistrate of Clanwilliam, in the eastern cape, passing away in 1858.

See http://peek-01.livejournal.com/tag/1767-1898

• Web Based Info. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500364161991&lds=1®ion=0&frompage=1

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http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500364162090&lds=1®ion=0&frompage=1

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ6-GQSB-G?i=24&cc=2517051&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A7JXG-G93Z

• Children. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/32491944/person/18437249538
Records two Hendrik Daniels

• Occupation. ² Civil Commisssioner and Landrost of Clanwilliam.

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Civil Commissioner & Resdt Magistrate of Clanwilliam.
Copy of Johannes Fredrik Hendrik Van Ryneveld's Death Notice # 4911 in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. ² John van Ryneveld - midshipman in the Royal Navy. Commanded one of the Guard Boats when Napoleon was on board the Bellerophon in Plymouth Harbour. Napoleon surrendered to the Captain of the Bellerophon when he saw no chance of escape.
Baptised 30.7.1797
Served as an Ensign in the Cape Corps in 1818/19 and was appointed Ensign in the 72nd Regiment of Foot in April 1819 - per Army Lists at PRO (Kew) for 1819 and 1820

Married Maria Magdalena De Wet 26.12.1819
1828 - Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate for Clanwilliam. He was appointed at a salary of Rds 300 per annum, "with power to try civil cases in which the amount in dispute did not exceed 10 rixdollars".

• Correspondence. Letter from Johannes Frederik Hendrik van Ryneveld C.C. of Clanwilliam, to his brother W.C. van Ryneveld, C.C. of Graaff Reinet

Filed with the Estate Papers of Martha Cornelia van der Riet, widow of the Fiscal.

Clanwilliam
6th June 1831 (1835)

Dear William,

By the last post I forwarded to you in half notes the sum of five hundred Rixdollars and I have not received an acknowledgment by this post. I would thank you to acquaint me whether you have received said letter in order that I may transmit the counterparts. Do not forget to see Major Michell on the subject of my grant, and best compliments to all your good family, and believe me to be

Yours sincerely, J van Ryneveld

P.S. I have by this post received a letter from the Orphan Chamber to attend at their office on the 13th instant. My answer to them was that my official duties will not admit of it, and referred them to the two letters from me on said subject. You have my authority to tell them from me that I will not be humbugged by them any longer and if they do not sell Minta and Philida forthwith I will enter a protest against them for all the loss I may sustain through their negligence. You may read them this letter as I should with that they are acquainted with my sentiments on the subject

J.v.R.

P.S. The whole world is humbug at present.

• General Comment. ² Wreck of the brig Australia in 1841

The story is told by the Captain, Adam Yule, of the fire on board and the wreck on the west coast of SA a few miles north of the Olifants River mouth. It describes the difficulties and sufferings of the crew and passengers in making their way south, where they were eventually helped by a Mr. R Fryer, Mr Francis J Truter (the assistant Field-Cornet for the district) and Mr. J van Ryneveld, the account including the following :-

"On the 13th January I received a letter from Mr Rennyfield (J van Ryneveld), civil commissioner Clanwilliam, to meet him at Mr. Fryer's on the following day, in company with Mr. Trouter." The Captain was hospitably received by Mr. Fryer and his wife, and found the lady passengers in good health and spirits. The Civil Commissioner made arrangements for their journey to Cape Town, giving the Captain a letter to produce to each Field-Cornet on the route instructing him to provide ….On the day appointed, we prepared for our departure amidst much bustle and confusion. The yoking of fourteen or sixteen oxen in a wagon is like getting an East India trader under weigh (?) and the chattering of the Hottentots in the excitement of the occasion was quite amusing. The wagon and everything necessary for the road. Assistant Field-Cornet Trouter (Truter) would accompany them and provide wagons for the first stage. The date of departure from the Olfants River was fixed for 19 January 1841

• General Comment. In the Van Ryenveld Family records there are two page sof notes describing a rift in the Van Ryneveld Family into English and Afrikaans factions. It is said that most of the Afrikaans speaking Van Rynevelds descended from Johannes Van Ryneveld. The notes are not hear repeated.

• General Comment. Copy of his son - Daniel Johannes Van Ryneveld's Death Notice # R756 undated in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. Copy of his daughter - Catharina Susanna De Vries' nee Van Ryneveld Death Notice #1018 filed 12 Nov 1874 in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. Daniel van Ryeneveld of Amsterdam who in 1759 came to South Africa as Asst. in the Service of the East India Company and in May 1777 was appointed as Landrost of Swellendam.
He was a Barrister by profession - He was transferred to Stellenbosch as Landrost in 1782 where he died in 1785 - He married Anna Grove 23 August 1761.
His son Willem Stephanus christened 24 March 1765 was Chief Justice of the Cape Colony and was married to Martha Cornelia van der Riet - Their son Willem Cornelius van Ryneveld is my grandfather. He was Captain in the 93rd Highlanders and took part in the battle of Waterloo. His brother was in the Navy and was on board the Belerephon when Napoleon was taken to St. Helena. This naval man is Pierre's branch of the family.

From handwritten notes in RAB's possesion.

Johannes married Maria Magdalena De Wet, daughter of Johannes Carolus De Wet and Helena Carolina Kirchmann, on 26 Dec 1819 in , Cape Province, South Africa.¹ (Maria Magdalena De Wet was born on 12 May 1801 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa, christened on 17 May 1801 in Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa and died before 1868.)

  Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=100300216254&lds=1®ion=0&frompage=1

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/The%20Family%20Register%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Nation/page_01124.pdf