Anna Catharina was die dogter van Stephanus Nel en Anna Margaretha Janse van Rensburg.
Well, I cannot imagine what the life of Wilhelmus (Kemper) must have been like. I have found him signing up as a soldier on the Dutch East India ship, Hoornweg, in January of 1790, when he was 25 years of age. His name on the Ships Log is registered as Willem Kemper. (
Ships Log
The ship departs from Texel in The Netherlands on a journey to The Cape of Good Hope. (http://www.kempen.id.au/genealogy/kempen-family/) Willem sailed to the Cape of Good Hope from the Island of Texel in the Netherlands aboard the Dutch East India Company ship "Hoornwegh" under the command of Captain Simon Vaartjes. The "Hoornwegh" departed Texel on 18 January 1790 and arrived at the Cape on 29 April 1790. Willem was one of 16 persons to disembark. Willem was employed as a soldier by the Dutch East India Company until December 1793. (
The ship departs from Texel in The Netherlands on a journey to The Cape of Good Hope. (http://www.kempen.id.au/genealogy/kempen-family/) Willem sailed to the Cape of Good Hope from the Island of Texel in the Netherlands aboard the Dutch East India Company ship "Hoornwegh" under the command of Captain Simon Vaartjes. The "Hoornwegh" departed Texel on 18 January 1790 and arrived at the Cape on 29 April 1790. Willem was one of 16 persons to disembark. Willem was employed as a soldier by the Dutch East India Company until December 1793. (
Life after that is a bit
sketchy. He works for the Dutch East India Company for a while as soldier and
is released from the service in 1793. Other researchers say that they find him
going back to Europe where he studies to become a Teacher. This could be
possible as in 1798 we find him working as a Teacher at the JH Hattingh School
in Graaff Reinet, Cape Colony. His name is now Willem Kempen. Then there is
another blank period until he turns up on the Opgaafrollen (annual taxation
returns) of 1810 being a travelling family with a wagon and 100 sheep. (http://www.kempen.id.au/genealogy/kempen-family/)
By
1798 he was teaching at Graaff-Reinet. On 19 March 1809 he married Anna
Catharina NEL in Graaff Reinet. (http://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/k-to-m/241-kempen-willem)
Willem is 44 and Anna is 19 years of age when they are married in 1809. A male child, Stephanus Johannes, was born in 1808. I have not established, if the child was fathered by Willem. There is a period of ten years, where no children are born to Willem and Anna. They are now farming at Kafferskraal in the Nieuweveldt Mountains near the small town of Beaufort West. Children arrive as follows: Willem Hendrik Marthinus Abraham 1818, Anna Margaretha Helena 1821, Gerhardus Petrus 1823, Petronella Johanna Maria 1829 and Cecelia Margaretha Isabella 1832.
Then there is another blank period until he turns up on the Opgaafrollen (annual taxation returns) of 1810 being a travelling family with a wagon and 100 sheep. They have one child. He has married Anna Catharina Nel in 1809. Anna is a direct decendant of the South African Nel Family.
Willem died on 7 November 1838 at Kafferskraal, Nieuweveld, South Africa. (http://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/k-to-m/241-kempen-willem)
Copy of Willem's Death Notice (https://www.kempen.id.au/genealogy/kempen-family/)
Willem is 44 and Anna is 19 years of age when they are married in 1809. A male child, Stephanus Johannes, was born in 1808. I have not established, if the child was fathered by Willem. There is a period of ten years, where no children are born to Willem and Anna. They are now farming at Kafferskraal in the Nieuweveldt Mountains near the small town of Beaufort West. Children arrive as follows: Willem Hendrik Marthinus Abraham 1818, Anna Margaretha Helena 1821, Gerhardus Petrus 1823, Petronella Johanna Maria 1829 and Cecelia Margaretha Isabella 1832.
Then there is another blank period until he turns up on the Opgaafrollen (annual taxation returns) of 1810 being a travelling family with a wagon and 100 sheep. They have one child. He has married Anna Catharina Nel in 1809. Anna is a direct decendant of the South African Nel Family.
Willem died on 7 November 1838 at Kafferskraal, Nieuweveld, South Africa. (http://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/k-to-m/241-kempen-willem)
Kinders:
f.1. Stephanus Johannes KEMPEN, geb. 15/03/1808 x Louisa
Elizabeth Petronella de VIlliers.
f.2. Willem Hendrik Marthinus Abraham KEMPEN, geb. 31/07/1818 x Anna Margaretha Stoffelina Wilders xx Magdalena Johanna Theron.
f.3. Gerhardus Petrus KEMPEN, geb. 20/12/1823 x Engela Maria
Magdalena Esterhuizen.
f.4. Petronella Johanna Maria KEMPEN, geb. 17/06/1829 x Frederik
Albertus Oppel.
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Beaufort wes baptisms 1819-1844
Beaufort wes baptisms 1819-1844
f.5. Cecelia Margaretha Isabella KEMPEN, geb. 06/06/1832 x Johannes Hendrik Claassens.
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Beaufort wes baptisms 1819-1844
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Beaufort wes baptisms 1819-1844
