First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Jan Voermeester¹

M, #13700, b. 1696

Mother*

Sara Voermeester² b. c 1680, d. 19 Apr 1730

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Last Edited

08/06/2011

Slave Birth - Company Owned

Jan Voermeester was born in bondage circa 1696 and was owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), de Caep de Goede Hoop Jan Voermeester.²

(Slave) 1727 LodgeCensus*

Jan Voermeester was enumerated in the 1727 census of the Slave Lodge. This was the largest census of the slave lodge.¹

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

Jan Voermeester was also known as Johannes NN.²

Baptisms

Jan Voermeester was baptized in 1696 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.²

Citations

[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), First Name: Jan Voermeester
Matronym: van Sara
Toponym: van de Caab
Birth Place: Creole
Contemporary Country Of Birth: South Africa
Continent: Africa
Gender: Male
Domicile Workplace: Lodge
Status: Mandoor
Occupation: Mandoor
Occupational Group: Supervisor
Miscellaneous: No comment
Archives And Document: Cape Town Archives, C.344
Document Title: Monster rolle van soodanige slaven, bandietten en slavinnen
Date: 1727.02.28
Page: 123
Year: 1727
Sequence In Document: 233. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
[S630] E-mails from Mansell Upham (e-mail address) to Delia Robertson, 7 June 2011 (Personal Library, Email Upham) "c1 JOHANNES casties baptized 1696."