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

Bruijnet van de Caep¹

F, #16321, b. circa 1675

Mother*

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Last Edited

04/07/2015

Birth*

Bruijnet van de Caep was born circa 1675 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, she was said to be 22 years old in 1697.¹

Slave Transactions

On 18 January 1697 Bruijnet van de Caep was sold by Johannes Starrenburg to Maria van Guinea, for Rds. 85. Both Böeseken and Shell incorrectly record the purchaser to be Pieter van de Westhuysen however this was corrected by Hattingh in Kronos. The purchaser was her mother, who emancipated her daughter in 1703.^2,3

Slave Emancipations

On 1 October 1703 Bruijnet van de Caep was emancipated by Maria van Guinea, her mother.⁴

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 175.. 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. 175. 18.1.1697, p. 137: Bruijnet from the Cape (22), sold by Johannes Starrenburg to Pieter van der Westhuysen for Rds. 85.
[S810] Mansell Upham 'At Earth's Extremest End… Op 't eijnde van de Aerd … The genealogical impact of the 'Angola' & 'Guinea' slaves at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), August 2014. "citing J. Leon Hattingh Kronos."
[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:       Bruijnet
Second Name:       Traced to other documents
Toponym:       van der Kaap
Name Type:       Facetious
Continental Origin:       Creole
Slave Place Origin:       Creole
Gender:       F
Simplified Age:       Adult
Age:       28
Price In Rix Dollars:       90
Currency:       RD
Repatriation:       Resident
Slave Status:       Burgher
Kin Involved:       No
Owner Related:       Yes
No Of Slaves In Manumission Related:       1
Owner Surname:       Westhuizen, van der
Owner First Name:       Pieter
Owner Repatriation:       NORE
Owner Death Status:       Alive
Owner Gender:       Male
Owner Status:       Burgher
Owner Marital Status:       Widow
Owner Marriage Day:       5
Owner Marriage Month:       11
Owner Marriage Year:       1673
Owner Occupation:       Farmer
Owner District:       Cape
Owner Immigration:       Yes
Owner Wealth:       8
Manumitter Surname:       Geunie [U]
Manumitter First Name:       Marij
Manumitter Relation:       Mother
Manumitter Death:       MANU
Manumitter Gender:       Female
Manumitter Status:       Freeblack
Manumitter Marital Status:       Single
Manumitter District:       Table Valley
Manumitter Immigration:       Yes
Manumitter Wealth:       4
Sale Transaction Day:       1
Sale Transaction Month:       10
Sale Transaction Year:       1703
IDNO:       3144
Manumission Type:       Purchase
Right Of Manumission:       Other
Year Freed:       1703
Additional References:       Pama. 1118
Reference:       Transporten and Scheepenkennis
Page Number:       Page 224-5
Note:       no trace on manumitter. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.