Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon1

M, #12875, b. circa 1700
NoticeRosetta van Java, Jonker van Macassar, Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon, Catharina van de Caep, Catharina van de Caep, Adolph Jonker, Jacob Jansen, Johannis van de Caep, Johanna van de Caep, Johanna Jonker, Maria Juliana Jansen, Adam van Batavia, Bastiaen van Cijlon and Rosetta van Bengale are the subjects of two important articles published by Remarkable Writing on the First Fifty Years project as part of Mansell Upham's Uprooted Lives series. (Clicking on the title will take you directly to a download of the article.)

The first is: God's Slave and Afrikaner 'Hearts of Darkness' — Abdullah alias Adolf Jonker (c.1707-1770)

And the second: Identifying Jonker van Macassar

There will be further updates to the profiles of some of these individuals in due course.

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Last Edited22/05/2016
Birth*Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon was born circa 1700 in Ceylon.1
 
Marriage*He married Rosetta van Bengale on 24 November 1737 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).2,3
 

Family

Rosetta van Bengale b. c 1713
Child
Duplicate?*It is possible that Johannes Jansz: van Batavia and Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon are the same individual. 
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)1735 Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in Cape District, he is enumerated after Sophia Gerritsz Gelys [?] (0461) and Jannetje VanWyk Gelis [?] (0463.)4
1738 Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in Cape District, They are recorded with two sons and two daughters after Antony van Bengale (0527) and before Frans Lens van der Kaap (0529) Rosetta van Bengale.5
1741 Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in, They are recorded with four sons and one daughter after Flora van Mandar VS (0564) and before Daniel van Batavia (0565) Rosetta van Bengale.6
1745 Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in, He is enumerated with four sons and three daughters after Daniel van Batavia (0567) and before Anko van de Kaap (0568). Has his wife died or is she visiting elsewhere or are they alienated.7
Slave EmancipationsIn 1735 Rosetta van Bengale and Lea van Timor were emancipated by Johannes Jansz van Ceijlon, they were adults, so at least 22 years old.8

Citations

  1. [S34] J.A. Heese & R.T.J. Lombard, South African Genealogies 4 J-K (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1992), p.74. Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 4 J-K.
  2. [S733] VC 621, NGK Marriage Registers 1713-1756 (Cape Town) transcribed by Corney Keller: Den 24 9ber [1737] Johannes Janz van Cijlon, met Rossetta van Bengalen vrijgegeven lijf eigenen., (1713-1756), Cape Town Archives Repository, Private Bag X9025, Cape Town, South Africa, 021-4624050. Hereinafter cited as NGK Marriage Registers 1713-1756 (Cape Town).
  3. [S744] Mansell Upham 'God's Slave & Afrikaner 'Hearts of Darkness' - Abdullah alias Adolf Jonker (c. 1709-1779)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), May 2013. "p.45, Note 76: Den 24 9ber [1737] Johannes Janz van Cijlon, met Rossetta van Bengalen vrijgegeven lijf eigenen."
  4. [S866] Opgaafrol, FILE NUMBER; J; Tax Rolls, 1735, Cape Archive Depot, 0462 Jansz v Ceylon Jan VS 1 (man) K. My thanks to Hans Heese for sharing his transcription of this opgaaf.
  5. [S867] Opgaafrol, FILE NUMBER; J; Tax Rolls, 1738, Cape Archive Depot, 0528 Jansz v Ceylon Johannes 1 (man) 1 (woman) 2 (sons) 2 (daughters) K
    0528B Bengale v VS Roselina. My thanks to Hans Heese for sharing his transcription of this opgaaf.
  6. [S870] Opgaafrol, FILE NUMBER; J; Tax Rolls, 1738, Cape Archive Depot, 0564 Jans v Ceylon Johannes 1 (man) 1 (woman) 4 (sons) 1 (daughter)
    0564B Bengale van VS Rosetta. My thanks to Hans Heese for sharing his transcription of this opgaaf.
  7. [S871] Opgaafrol, FILE NUMBER; J; Tax Rolls, 1745, Cape Archive Depot, 0567 Jansz v Ceylon Johannes 1 (man) 4 (sons) 3 (daughters) K. My thanks to Hans Heese for sharing his transcription of this opgaaf.
  8. [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), Slave First Name:       Roosje     
    Toponym:       van Bengalen     
    Descent:       Full breed     
    Name Type:       Diminutive form     
    Continental Origin:       Indian sub continent     
    Slave Place Origin:       Bengal     
    Gender:       F     
    Simplified Age:       Adult     
    Repatriation:       Resident     
    Slave Status:       Free Black     
    Kin Involved:       No     
    Owner Related:       No     
    No Of Slaves In Manumission Related:       2     
    Owner Surname:       van Ceijlon     
    Owner First Name:       Johannes Jansz     
    Owner Ethnicity:       Indian sub continent     
    Owner Toponym:       van Ceijlon     
    Owner Death Status:       Alive     
    Owner Gender:       Male     
    Owner Status:       Free Black     
    Owner District:       Table Valley     
    Manumitter Surname:       van Ceijlon     
    Manumitter First Name:       Johannes Jansz     
    Manumitter Ethnicity:       Indian sub continent     
    Manumitter Toponym:       van Ceijlon     
    Manumitter Gender:       Male     
    Manumitter Status:       Freeblack     
    Manumitter District:       Table Valley     
    Sale Transaction Year:       1735     
    IDNO:       478     
    Manumission Type:       Owner's wish     
    Right Of Manumission:       Other     
    Year Freed:       1735     
    Reference:       Leibbrandt; Requesten 2     
    Page Number:       Page 604     . Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
 

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