Bosch Heuvel – Owners

De Bosch Heuvel / Boscheuvel / Bosheuvel / Bosheuwel aka Protea / Bishop’s Court

1658:                           grant to Cape’s 1st VOC Commander Jan van Riebeeck by VOC   Commissioner Johannes Cunaeus                                 

1662:                           Jacob Cornelisz: van Rosendael (from Amsterdam)                

23 April 1676:             his widow Catharina van den Berg (from Amsterdam) who marries Tobias Marquaert (from Hamburg)                                                        

25 August 1676:         Tobias Marquaert                    

10 November 1677:   Leendert Jansz: van Gijselen (from Den Haag)                                   

1690:                           Cornelis (Neels) Petersen Linnes (from Christiania – now Oslo Norway)

1691:                           Guillaume (Guilliam) Eems / Heems (dies 1707) (from Brughes, Flanders)

1707: Anna van Banchem, widow of Guillaume (Guilliam) Eems / Heems who marries (2ndly) burgerraad s:r Hendrik Möller / Mulder

28 April 1709             Cape-born burgerraad s:r Hendrik Möller / Mulder (1683-1720)

1720: Anna van Banchem, widow of burgerraad s:r Hendrik Möller (1683-1720)

1726:                           Guilliam Heems Jr.

17 February 1758:       Jacob van Reenen (from Memel)

13 September 1758:    Jacob Friedrich Nöthling (from Deetz, Brandenburg)

1774:                           Johannes (Jan) Roep / Rupp (from Hanau)

1783:                           Peter Henken aka Pieter Heintjes / Henkes (from Goldap – Voivodeship of Warmian-Masurian, Poland)

1804:                           Justinus (Justus) Nikolaus Keer / Keur (from Eisenach, Saxony)

1805:                           Honoratus Conrad Maynier (from Leipzig) – adds over 77 morgen to place, beautifies buildings, plants many oak trees & names it Protea;

Sir Lowry Cole – British Governor of the Cape (1828-1843) 

1836:                           Andreas Brink 

1842:                           Honoratius Maynier – grandson of former owner

1834:                           Protea Village established on portion of farm by emancipated slaves to settle on condition they work for landlord 

1848:                           Bishop Robert Gray arrives at Cape & rents Protea

1851:                           Miss Burdett-Coutts – Victorian philanthropist – purchases farm on behalf of Colonial Bishopric Fund which renames it Bishopscourt as residence for Bishop for princely sum of £4000; Bishop Gray establishes school hold prayer services & exercises pastoral care for 83 villagers

Present:                       official residence of Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town 

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