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

Dol van Cochin¹

M, #16823, b. circa 1685

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Last Edited

29/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Dol was from Cochin and was perhaps born there circa 1685. His age is estimated.¹

Names in the record, in publications, etc.

1 March 1700, the name of Dol was written in the record as Pol van Cochin.²

Slave Emancipations

On 1 March 1700 Dol van Cochin was emancipated by Jan Lubbinck, one year after being placed in the service of Steven Vermey who had been responsible for him during this period.³

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 192.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[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: Pol
Toponym: van Cochin. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 192. 1.3.1700: Dol from Cochin manumitted by skipper Jan Lubbinck, after having been cared for a year by the Free Burgher Steven Vermeij, whom he served for that period.