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

Diana van de Caep¹

F, #14355, b. circa 1682

Mother-Candidate

Diana van Macassar b. c 1659; I am offering this candidate relationship for consideration and possible further discovery in the record on the basis that children born enslaved at the Cape were not infrequently named for their mothers. Diana van Macassar was owned by Herman Gresnicht during the period Diana van de Caep would have been conceived and born. That she was given and not sold, suggests two possibilities for consideration... she may have been baptised, and she may have been Gresnicht's biological daughter

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Last Edited

15/01/2022

Birth*

Diana van de Caep was born circa 1682 in the Cape.¹

Slave Transactions

On 3 April 1688 Diana van de Caep was gifted by Herman Gresnigh, to Hendrik Snewindt, she was given "in friendship" on condition she would not be sold, and would be granted emancipation when Snewint died. In Changing Hands, Shell notes she was described as Gresnicht's "gebore slavinnetje.^2,3"

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.152.. 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.152. 3.4.1688. pp. 71-72: Diana from the Cape (6), given "in friendship" by Herman Gresnigt to Hendrik Snewint, on condition that Snewint does not sell
her and, when he dies, she be set free.
[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:       Diana
Toponym:       van der Kaap
Descent:       Half breed
Name Type:       Classical
Continental Origin:       Creole
Slave Place Origin:       Creole
Gender:       F
Simplified Age:       Child
Age:       6
Repatriation:       Testamentary
Slave Status:       Burgher
Owner Related:       No
No Of Slaves In Manumission Related:       3
Owner Surname:       Gresnight, van trecht
Owner First Name:       Hermanus
Owner Ethnicity:       Dutch
Owner Toponym:       trecht, van
Owner Repatriation:       NORE
Owner Death Status:       Dead
Owner Gender:       Male
Owner Status:       Burgher
Political Rank:       Councillor
Owner Occupation:       Farmer
Owner District:       Table Valley
Owner Immigration:       Yes
Owner Wealth:       8
Manumitter Surname:       Sneewind
Manumitter First Name:       Hendrik
Manumitter Gender:       Male
Manumitter Status:       Burgher
Manumitter Occupation:       Farmer
Manumitter District:       Cape District
Sale Transaction Day:       3
Sale Transaction Month:       4
Sale Transaction Year:       1688
IDNO:       3042
Manumission Type:       Testament
Service Years:       10
Right Of Manumission:       Other
Year Freed:       1698
Additional References:       Not in Pama
Reference:       Transporten and Scheepenkennis
Page Number:       Page 71-2
Note:       Family: sijn gebore slavinnetje; given in friendship. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.