Migration: Adamus Paulus Weingartz 1760-1839

This week I am participating once again in Amy Johnson Crow‘s 52 ancestors in 52 week challenge. This week’s prompt is migration.

Adamus Paulus Weingartz was my paternal first cousin five times removed. He was baptized 12 November 1760 in the Sankt Martinus catholic church in Düsseldorf, Prussia. His parents were Joannes Henricus Weingartz and Anna Catharina Heinens. A copy of his baptism is below.

When Adamus was 26 years old he travelled to Holland. Düsseldorf was not that far from the Dutch border as you can see on this map below.

In the Dutch archives I found a document that Adamus was going to travel on the ship Arend.

From this document I could see that he was going to serve as a Dutch soldier from 1786 to 1793. He was sailing to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. He travelled with the famous Dutch East India Company.

Name	Adamus Paulus Weingartz
Origin	Dusseldorff
Entry into Service Date	17 jul. 1786 (17 Jul 1786)
Entry into Service Position	Soldaat
Position Explanation	Militair
Departure Ship	Arend
Out of Service Date	31 aug. 1793 (31 Aug 1793)
Out of Service Place	Kaap De Goede Hoop
Reasons for Leaving Service	Overleden
Monthly Letter	Nee
Debt Letter	Ja

Adamus left Holland 17 July 1786 and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope 12 May 1787.

He married Anna Catharina Hansoniús 14 June 1807 in Cape Town. They had five children together, all born in Cape Town and baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church.

• 1. Anna Christina Fredrica Weingartz born 1808, died 1864 in Cape Town. She was married to John Albert Sinclair. The couple had four children.
• 2. Maria Magdalena Catharina Weingartz born 1811, died 1893 in Sea Point, Cape Town. She was married to Thomas Kenneth Sinclair. The couple had 11 children.
• 3. Aletta Margaretha Weingartz born 1813, died 1845 in Cape Town. She was married to Thomas Hall. The couple had four children.
• 4. Paulus Petrus Heinrich Weingartz born 1816, died 1858 in Paarl, Western Cape. He was married to Regina Johanna Dietlefs. The couple had one child.
• 5. Frederik Martinus Johannes Weingartz born 1819, died 1891 at Sea Point, Western Cape. He was not married. I did find a grave stone for him on Find A Grave, courtesy of Scooter T. I enlarged the image to see the inscription better.

He is buried together with his sister, Maria Magdalena, and his brother in law, Thomas Kenneth Sinclair.

Adamus was a shop keeper. South Africa, City and Area Directories, 1813-1962

Name	Paulus Wyngartz
Directory Year	1820
Directory Place	Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Profession	Retail Shop
Street Address	19 Bree Street
Source	1820 African Court Calender Book

He died in 1838.

Cape Province, South Africa, Estates Death Notice Index, 1834-1956

Name	Adamus Paulus Martinus Weingartz
Death Date	1839
Volume	6/9/14
Reference	3168
Source	Master’s Office / Orphan Chamber, Cape Town (MOOC)
Source location	National Archives, Cape Town (KAB)

After his death his wife remarried.

About fifteen years ago I was contacted by a descendant of Adamus, who lives in South Africa. He had asked me all kinds of questions about my hometown Düsseldorf. He asked about the church where his ancestor was baptized. I told him about the Sankt Martinus catholic church which still exists. In more recent years I have had DNA matches with other descendants of Adamus, one in particular who moved from South Africa to Australia. DNA is just one more tool for me to validate my research.

It took Adamus almost ten months to arrive at the Cape of Good Hope. I checked with google maps. Nowadays you can make the trip by car in about 174 to 184 hours. It’s over 8000 miles away and a very long trip through the desert.

For today’s article I used the following resources:

• 1. Find A Grave
• 2. Ancestry
• 3. Dutch Genealogy Archives
• 4. Google Maps
• 5. St. Martinus Catholic Church Book Baptisms 1722-1769 Düsseldorf

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