Wenzel[ Martin] TIESIJ-TICHIJ - TICHY -TUCHE was born about 1715 in Peemen (likely Plzeň, Bohemia, near Prague – now in the Czech Republic). He died on 14 Jun 1793 in Cape of Good Hope.

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Wensel Tucht from Peemen, Prague, was employed as VOC soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on 7 May 1746 in Texel.

In the heart of the old Habsburg lands, where the four rivers of western Bohemia join to form the Berounka, lies the ancient royal city of Plzeň—known in the 18th century to Dutch and German speakers as Pilsen or Peemen. From this region, steeped in medieval history and long loyal to the Austrian crown, came Wensel Tiesij, a man of modest origin who left the familiar cobbled streets and Gothic towers of Central Europe to enter the far-flung service of the Dutch East India Company.

Little is known of his youth, but by the 1740s the restless tide of opportunity and hardship that swept through Central Europe had drawn many Bohemian and German young men into foreign service.

The VOC, needing soldiers to guard its fortresses and trade posts from Africa to the Indies, welcomed such recruits. Thus, Wensel Tiesij’s name appears in Company records—spelled in the rough Dutch of the time—as “Wensel Tiesij van Peemen, Prague.”

In May 1746, he embarked from Texel aboard the Akerendam, a sturdy East Indiaman newly built for the Amsterdam Chamber. The ship, under Skipper Hendrik Volkers, carried a complement of over three hundred men—soldiers, sailors, and artisans—bound for the fabled East. The journey would take them first around the stormy Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope, where the Akerendam dropped anchor on 31 August 1746. For nearly a month, the vessel lay in the bay beneath Table Mountain, replenishing stores, taking on fresh water and livestock, and allowing its weary crew a brief respite on African soil.

Wensel Tiesij stepped ashore to serve temporarily at the Cape garrison is not recorded. Yet one may imagine him among the ranks of uniformed soldiers parading through the dusty streets of the young settlement—foreign in tongue but united in purpose with Dutch, German, and Scandinavian comrades under the Company’s flag. On 22 September 1746, the Akerendam sailed again, turning eastward into the Indian Ocean toward Batavia.

The ship would meet a tragic fate twelve years later, wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope in May 1758, with the loss of nearly all hands—a grim reminder of the peril that shadowed every man who served upon those distant seas.

Thus, Wensel Tiesij stands as one of many anonymous yet valiant figures whose courage carried them from the heart of Europe to the farthest edges of the world. His life, briefly glimpsed through the records of the VOC, speaks of the unrecorded destinies that built the foundations of early colonial society at the Cape and beyond. 

1760; 30 Apr, 1 & 2 May; Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope Muster Roll;
Wentzel, Lavina; 1 Son; 1 Daughter; 1 Male Slave; 1 Female Slave

1762; 30 Apr, 1 & 3 May; Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope Muster Roll;
Wentzel, Lafina; 1 Son 2 Daughters;1 Male Slave; 1 Female Slave

1765; 30 Apr, 1 & 2 May; Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope Muster Roll;
Wentzel Tichij, Levina Vredenburg; 1 Minor Son; 3 Minor daughters; 1 Male Slave; 1 Female Slave

1766; 30 Apr, 1 & 2 May; Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope Muster Roll
Wentzel Tichij, Levina Vredenburg; 1 Minor Son; 3 Minor daughters; 1 Male Slave; 1 Female Slave

1770; 30 Apr, 1 & 2 May; Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope Muster Roll;
Wentzel Tichij,Levina Vredenburg; 1 Minor Son; 3 Minor daughters; 1 Male Slave; 1 Female Slave; 2 Girl Slaves

1773; 30 Apr, 1 & 3 May; Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope Muster Roll;
Wentzel Tichij, Levina Vredenburg; 1 Minor Son; 3 Minor daughters; 1 Male Slave; 1 Female Slave

1777; 17 Aug; Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope_Wentzel Martinus Tuchi and Levina Vredenburg sign as witnesses at the christening of Ernst Martinus Faustman, son of George Ernst and Johanna Magdalena Tuchi.

1787; 2 Nov; The death of Johannas Jacobus Tiche [could not place this person]

Wenzel married Levina VREDENBURGH daughter of Gerrit Pieterz VREDENBURGH and Barendina Gerritsz VAN AARDT on 23 Jul 1752 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope. Levina was born on 15 Oct 1724 in Cape of Good Hope. She was christened on 24 Nov 1726 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope. She died in 1801.
       Christening witness; Sara van Graan

CHILDREN:

Johannes Gerhardus born about 1754 in Cape of Good Hope. He was christened on 19 Jan 1755 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope. He died possibly young in Cape of Good Hope.

Christening witnesses; Johan Tucji and Anna Catharina Vredenburg

Johanna Magdalena born about 1756 in Cape of Good Hope. She was christened on 28 Nov 1756 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope. She died on 27 Nov 1777 in Cape of Good Hope.  The cause of death was most probably Childbirth complications.
          Christening witnesses; Johannes Christiaan ?? and Magdalena Vredenburg

Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope CHURCH MEMBER; 30 Mar 1774
After previously making the Confession of Faith, accepted and presented as a member in the Cape Town Neder Geref Church

Johanna married George Ernest FOUSTMAN-FAUSTMAN on 16 Jun 1776 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope. George died on 26 Mar 1792 in Cape of Good Hope.

Christoffel born about 1759 in Cape of Good Hope. He was christened on 29 Jun 1759 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope. He died possibly young in Cape of Good Hope.

Johanna Maria born about 1762 in Cape of Good Hope. She was christened on 18 Apr 1762 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope.
         Christening witnesses; Johan Carel Winterbach and Maria Wendel

Margaretha born about 1764 in Cape of Good Hope. She was christened on 13 May 1764 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope.

        Christening witnesses; Johan Carel Winterbach and Margaretha Winterbach

Jan Christoffel born about 1767 in Cape of Good Hope. He was christened on 17 Jan 1768 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope.

Christening witnesses; Jan Christoffel Classe ? and Anna Maria Classer
Jan resided in 1798 in Swellendam, Cape of Good Hope.

1797; Graaff-Reinet Muster Roll

Jan married Elsje Elizabeth RAATH on 21 Oct 1798 in Cape Town Neder Geref Church, Cape of Good Hope.
[possibly this:- b4. Elsje Elisabeth * c. 1780 ~ Lutheran Church, Cape Town 17.3.1782]