Person:Hans Snijder (1)

Hans Christoffel Snijder (this is the Dutch version of Schneider) also known as Snijman from Heidelberg in the Palatinate was a soldier in the VOC garrison convicted and banished to Robben Island on 30th July 1667 for not standing guard - instead he had been sleeping on a regular basis with Groote Catrijn - washerwoman at the Fort to successive commanders. Thereafter, Snijders disappears from the records at the Cape. On instructions from the Council of India, Groote Catrijn was again pardoned.

He had one VOORKINDERS with Catharina van Bengale, Christoffel Snyman who was baptised on 9 March 1669. (Christoffel became the stamvader of the Snyman family in Southern Africa).