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

Helena van Cochin¹

F, #14310, b. 1668/69

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Last Edited

15/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Helena was from Cochin and may have been born there in 1668/69.¹

Slave Transactions

On 5 May 1688 Helena van Cochin was sold by Johannes Munster to Willem ten Damme, for Rds. 53. Munster reserved the right to buy back Helena should he later return to Batavia.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.153.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.153. 5.5.1688. pp. 130-131: Helena from Cochin (19/20), sold by Johannes Munster, Free Burgher chirurgijn from Batavia, to Willem ten Damme for Rds. 53. He reserved the right to buy this slave back should he return to Batavia.