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Januarij van Mallebaar¹

M, #19284, b. circa 1720

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Last Edited

30/09/2021

BirthOrigin*

Januarij was from Malabar Coast and was perhaps born there circa 1720. The date is estimated based on the fact he was an adult in 1750.¹

Slave Emancipations

In 1724 Anna van de Caep van Christina applied for the manumission of her daughter Anna van Beulen who at the time was a 9-year-old in the Slave Lodge. It is assumed that the application was successful because in May 1735 her daughter married which she could not have done if she had still been enslaved. Anna van der Heijde offered the "healthy" slave Januarij van Mallebaar in exchange for her daughter's freedom. However he is recorded as part of the estate of her husband Willem Stolts in 1750, suggesting that this exchange was ultimately not enforced.²

Slaves owned by individuals

By the time he died shortly before 3 October 1750 when an inventory was taken of his estate, Willem Stolts came to own at least the eleven slaves named in the inventory. They were Januarij van Mallebaar, Jacob van Rio de la Goa, Leander van de Caab, Februarij van de Caab, Cupido van Bengalen, Cupido van Mallebaar, Joseph van Bengalen, Jan van Maccassar, Jonas van Mallebaar, Johanna van Maccassar and Rebecca van Rio de la Goa, what became of them is yet to be discovered in the record.³

Citations

[S332] Webpage tanap.net (http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/) (Original records held by Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Roeland Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa) "Reference no.: MOOC8/7.57
Testator(s):
Willem Stolts
3 October 1750."
[S211] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Requesten (Memorials) 1715 - 1806 Vol I A-E, H.C.V. Leibrandt; CD-ROM (Cape Town, South Africa: Cape Times Limited, Government Printers, Keerom Street, 1905), pg.2. Anna van de Caap, Wife of the Burgher Jan Jansz van Beulen, mentions that her daughter Anna, 9 years old, is still a slave in the Company's Lodge, asks that she may be manumitted, that she may be better brought up, and offers to give in Exchange a healthy male slave, named January of Malabar. (No. 99.). Hereinafter cited as Requesten (Memorials) 1715 - 1806 Vol I A-E.
[S332] Webpage Tanap (http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/) (Original records held by Western Cape Archives and Records Service) "Reference no.: MOOC8/7.57
Testator(s):
Willem Stolts
3 October 1750 …
Lijfeijgenen
1 slaave jonge gen:t Januarij van Mallebaar boe
1 slaave jonge gen:t Jacob van Rio de la Goa boe
1 slaave jonge gen:t Leander van de Caab coets: wag:
1 slaave jonge gen:t Februarij van de Caab wag:
1 slaave jonge gen:t Cupido van Bengalen B
1 slaave jonge gen:t Cupido van Mallebaar pl:, say, wag:
1 slaave jonge gen:t Joseph van Bengalen pl:
1 slaave jonge gen:t Jan van Maccassar boer
1 slaave jonge Jonas van Mallebaar
1 slavinne gen:t Johanna van Maccassar
1 slavinne gen:t Rebecca van Rio de la Goa."