• General Notes

  Johan (Wilhelm) GROBLER  is die STAMVADER van alle GROBLERS EN GROBELAARS in Suid Afrika.
  
  Hy het 11 kinders gehad. Die 9de en 11de kinders nl. Coert en Cornelis (seuns) het hulself GROBBELAAR genoem inplaas van GROBLER. Dit is van hierdie twee seun waaruit die hele GROBBELAAR familie hul oorsprong het.
  born 10 0ctober 1678 in Tangermünde, a town 100 km west from Berlin, Germany. He came to South Africa in about 1708. He was then in the service of the VOC and was employed as a woodcutter and later as a transport driver. We find him in 1712 in the service of Christiaan Maasdorp as a farm labourer. He became a free burger in 1715 and in the same year he married Geertruyd KNOESEN who was baptised on 11 July 1706 daughter of stamvader Cornelis Knoetzen and Dirkje Helms. On 3 June 1736 Geertruyd married stamvader Jan Jurgen Herman (also known as Hans Jurgen Herman(n) from Stuttgart), two months and 3 days after the birth of her youngest son - eleventh child Cornelis Grobler.
  
  
  Grobler; betekenis: Grof Groot Sterk
  Stamvader: Johann Grobler gebore 10 OCT 1678 Tangermunde (Duitsland) Kom ca 1708 in Suid Afrika aan; 1708-13 Houthaker en later as wadrywer in diens van die VOC; 1712 in diens van Maasdorp as boerekneg. Vryburger in 1715; trou dieselfde jaar met Geertruyd Knoetzen, ged 11.7.1706 (11 kinders) dv Cornelis Knoetzen en Dirkje Helmes (sy xx 3.7.1736 Hans Jurgen Herman) 

Details of Johann's family with Geertruyd Knoetzen