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

Thomas van Madras¹

M, #15916, b. circa 1674

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Last Edited

24/03/2015

BirthOrigin*

Thomas was from Madras and was perhaps born there circa 1674. He was said to be 18 years old in 1692.¹

Slave Transactions

On 24 June 1692 Thomas van Madras was sold on behalf of Edmund Eedes by Stephen Barbar, to Guillaume Heems for Rds. 65.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.161.. 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.161. 24.6.1692, pp. 103-104: Thomas from Madras (18), sold by Stephen Barbar on behalf of Edmund Eedes, a junior carpenter, to Guilliam Heems for Rds. 65.