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

Abraham van Madagascar¹

M, #16226, b. 1655/56

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Last Edited

02/06/2017

BirthOrigin*

Abraham was from Madagascar and was perhaps born there in 1655/56. He was said to be 39 or 40 years old in 1696.¹

Duplicate?*

It is possible that either Abraham van Madagascar and Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave van Madagascar; or that Abraham van Madagascar and Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave van Madagascar are the same individual.²

Slave Emancipations

On 19 January 1696 Abraham van Madagascar was emancipated by Geertrùij Lùbbringh.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.171-172.. 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.171. 19.1.1696, p. 17 (verso): Abraham from Madagascar (39/40), manumitted by Geertruij Luhberinck, the widow of Cornelis Pietersz Linnes.