Anton Martens, SV/PROG 1

MARTENS ANTON (S). - Celle in Hanover. * 1687, son of Jasper M. and Anna v. Deventer, who lived later at Antwerp. Arr. 1710 as so., loaned 1712 as shoemaker to Basilius Kretzschmar (q.v.), b. 1713, resident as shoemaker in Cape Town. ~ (1) 6.8.1713 Sara Claasen Moller, d. of Johann Claus Möller of Hamburg (q.v.); (2) 15.12.1720 Hermina Herwig of Amsterdam, wid. Basilius Kretzschmar. 7 children. + 1725. (GMR 1710, 1711, 1713; CJ 1126: 104; V.C. 56; G.R. nr. 575; Test. CJ 1070: 65 (Test. O.C. 2: 131); Test. CJ 1072: 14 (Test. O.C. 3: 111); CJ 1070: 73, according to which his estate at the time of his second marriage was valued at 16,000 gilders.)

- Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946)