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

Alexander van der Kust Coromandel¹

M, #15880, b. circa 1672

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Last Edited

22/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Alexander was f rom the Coromandel Coast and was perhaps born there circa 1672.^1,2

Slave Transactions

On 10 June 1692 Alexander van der Kust Coromandel was sold by Cornelis Castelijn to Guillaume Heems, for Rds. 60.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.160.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.160. 10.6.1692, pp. 51-52: Alexander from the Coast, sold by Cornelis Castelijn, who had been senior merchant in the Castle at Batavia, to Guilliam Heems for Rds. 60.