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

Sara van Ceylon¹

F, #15470, b. circa 1650

Copyright / Terms of Use Notice

The material on this website is subject to copyright.
Facts (names, dates, and places) are not copyright. You are free to transcribe them but not cut and paste into your data provided you use the correct attribution and citation.
I have created the narratives, sentences, and citations; they are copyright and may not be used.
You may not add them to your genealogy, your personal documents, your tree on Ancestry, nor in the data or profile sections on Geni, nor anywhere else.
Many of the images are also copyright. You may not copy them without the consent of the copyright holders.
You must use the correct attribution and citation, viz.: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. Here you add the page URL.

Last Edited

12/03/2016

BirthOrigin*

Sara was from Ceylon and perhaps born there circa 1650. Her age is estimated.¹

Slave Emancipations

On 16 May 1676 Sara van Ceylon was emancipated by Ouwel Jansen de Caep de Goede Hoop, she was free to remain at the Cape or to return to the East.^2,3

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 132. 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. 132. 16.5.1676: Sara from Ceylon, manumitted by Ouwel Jansen, skipper of the Voorsightigheijt. She would be free to stay at the Cape or to return to the East.
[S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 16.5.1676 [Verlore]
Ouwel Jansen, skipper van die Voorsightigheijt, stel Sara van Ceylon vry. Sy sou vry wees om aan die Kaap te bly of om na die Ooste terug te keer.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."