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Jacob van de Caep

M, #10059, b. before 4 April 1694

Mother*

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695

Last Edited

09/08/2017

Baptism

Jacob van de Caep was baptized on 4 April 1694 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by Catharina Willemsz and Sara van Soloor. This witness has not been positively identified but Sara van Soloor is(are) potentially the correct individual(s.)¹

Slave Births

Before 4 April 1694, Jacob van de Caep was born in bondage and was owned by Jan Holtsmit de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Slave Emancipations

On 31 August 1702 Table Valley, de Caep de Goede Hoop, Marta Manuels was emancipated with her children Catharina Jacobs, Jacob van de Caep, Christiaen van de Caep, Johannes van de Caep and Willem Meyn by Grysella Mostaart apparently at the behest of their former owner Hester Weijers who had died two years earlier.²

Citations

[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: 1694
Den 4 April twee Slavinne kinderen gedoopt van Jan
Holdtsmidt, waer van de moeder is genaemt Marth at an unknown age
Manuell, tot getuijge stonden Sara Claesze, ende
Catarina Willems, sijn genaemt de eene Jacob,
de andere Helena, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
[S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, A calendar of bondage in southern Africa, 1550 to 1888, CD-ROM; ISBN 1-86918-063-1; (Cape Town: Ancestry24, September 2007). Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.