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

Petronella van Bengale¹

F, #16684, b. circa 1680

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Last Edited

25/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Petronella was from Bengal and was perhaps born there circa 1680. She was said to be 18 years old in 1699.¹

Slave Emancipations

On 9 March 1699 Petronella van Bengale was emancipated by Hillegonda Cranendonck.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 186.. 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. 186. 9.3.1699: Petronella from Bengal (18), liberated by Hillegonda Cranendonck, the widow of Marten van Heenskerk.