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

Thamba van Madagascar¹

?, #16344, b. circa 1689

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Last Edited

15/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Thamba was from Madagascar and was perhaps born there circa 1689. He was said to be 8 years old 1697.¹

Slave Transactions

On 13 March 1697 Thamba van Madagascar was sold by Hans Christiaan Holm to Albert Coopman, for Rds. 36.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 176.. 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. 176. 13.3.1697, p. 158 (verso): Thamba from Madagascar (8), sold by Hans Christiaan Holm, skipper on De Soldaat, to Albert Coopman for Rds. 36.