Gerrit Pungel, on February 17, 1772 in the service of the Dutch East India Company
- Departure
- 1772
- Monday, 17 February
Gerrit Pungel (uit Rotterdam) joins as ship’s boy (jongen) with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Huis te Krooswijk bound for Batavia - Wednesday, 3 June
107 days after departure
Arrival of the ship Huis te Krooswijk on the Cape - Friday, 26 June
23 days after arrival at the Cape
Departure of the ship Huis te Krooswijk of the Cape - Wednesday, 26 August
61 days after departure from the Cape, 191 days after departure from the Netherlands
Arrival of the ship Huis te Krooswijk in Batavia - 1793
- Saturday, 31 August
7866 days after employment
Resignation Gerrit Pungel (Asia), reason: last record
Remarks
Month certificate: No / Debenture: No
Source citation
Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14256, folio 178
VOC - voyagers, this index was developed through a joint initiative of the archives of Delft and Rotterdam, Zeeuws archief, Westfries Archief (Hoorn and Enkhuizen) and the departments of history from the Universities of Leiden and Ghent.
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On Monday, 28 January Scott Chalmers wrote
Well sounds like my 5th grandfather......who daughter Elizabeth Margaret Pungel married William Auld Chalmers HEICS, in Panang.....William passed away around 1862 an Elizabeth around 1843 an are buried in a church or in the church yard in Croydon England, one of there sons was named Gerit A Chalmers. They saying in the family history that Gerrit was a Governor of Dutch Malacca but I've never found any evidence of it. Just stuff that mentions that he liked to drink excessively an was a minor merchant an clerk on some island council
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