Anna Maria van de Caep van Dorothea1

F, #18794, b. 17 February 1700
Mother*Dorothea van de Caep b. 26 Nov 1679; This relationship is assumed. I have not been able to identify any other company owned enslaved woman who meets the age and other criteria to be this child's mother1

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Last Edited04/08/2017
RacialDesignation* On 17 February 1700 Anna Maria van de Caep van Dorothea was described as castijs, a racial tag meaning her mother was mulatto or mesties, and her father white. For more on the racial and social typecasting of the period, visit this page: Nomenclature & identity tags peculiar to the Cape of Good Hope deriving from an individual’s legal status made for legally-entrenched hierarchic discrimination.1 
BaptismsAnna Maria van de Caep van Dorothea was baptized on 17 February 1700 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).2
Slave BirthsBefore 17 February 1700, Anna Maria van de Caep van Dorothea was born in bondage de Caep de Goede Hoop.1
Slaves Owned by the CompanyOn 17 February 1700 Dorothea van de Caep and Anna Maria van de Caep van Dorothea were enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.3

Citations

  1. [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). Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
  2. [S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, [17 Februarij 1700] een kint
    van Dorothea gent. Anna Maria, [Castijs]
    van Jannetie gent. Johanna, [Halfslag]
    familysearch.org.
  3. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org).
 

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