Christina van Maria van Diana van de Caep1
F, #19304, b. before 14 July 1725, d. 11 May 1731
Birth* | Christina van Maria van Diana van de Caep was born before 14 July 1725 at Slave Lodge in (Cape Town), although the father is not named in this baptism, subsequent evidence in the record identifies him and his relationship with the child's mother.1 |
Baptism | Christina van Maria van Diana van de Caep was baptized on 14 July 1725 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).1 |
Death* | She died on 11 May 1731 (Cape Town), she died in an accident which also involved her father, as is mentioned in a letter from her uncle Johannes Morgh dated 10 Feb 1732 in which he wrote: Het ongeluk UEd:e overgekomen, met het overleijden van UEd:e liefe dochter Christina, hoope dat UEd:e u selve daar in zult getroost hebbe, vermits den wech der aller vleesschen is; en weij huer ook niet moete misgunnen, het geluk en vreugde, die zeij is genietende, namelijk het eeuwige hemel reijck.2,3,4 |
(Child) 1727 LodgeCensus | 28 February 1727, Maria van Diana van de Caep was enumerated as a Company-owned slave in the census of the Slave Lodge. Her daughters Diana van Maria van Diana van de Caep and Christina van Maria van Diana van de Caep were enumerated in the same census, with Diana being described as halfwassen meijden, an adolescent girl and Christijn as suijgelen meisje, a nursing girl. Christijn was said to be one year, three months old.5 |
Citations
- [S1002] VC 605 (NGK G1-8/2), Company Slave Baptisms 1713-1742, 1713-1742: 30 d:o [Augusti 1722]
Gedoopt een kind van:
- Maria van Diana, genaamt Diana, halfslag
[1725] Julij 14e
- Christina, halfslag, van Maria van Diana, transcribed by Corney Keller, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/. Hereinafter cited as Company Slave Baptisms 1713-1742.
- [S1001] Susan Newton-King, "Credit and debt in the lives of freed slaves at the Cape of Good Hope: The case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697-1735," in Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean world, Gwyn Campbell and Alessando Stanziani, editors. (Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013), citing Shell, Diaspora to Diorama, she states: Christina was killed in an accident on 11 May 1731, just six days before the Council met to consider her father's petition for freedom, among other items. Arnoldus was also involved in the accident.. Hereinafter cited as "Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697-1735."
- [S1010] Unknown compiler, compiler, Diaspora to Diorama (Downloadable) (Cape Town: Robert C-H Shell, 2010), Christina van Maria van Diana van de Kaap]; (died1731); birthplace: Kaap], Africa; died on: Friday,11 May 1731; acclimatisation: locally born; status: slavinne; skill: bandiet [sic - she was 5 years old]; gender: female; age group: school; mother: Maria Diana (matronym 1731); grandmother: Diana (grandmother1731); stationed at lodge: school; description in original: skool meijd; source: WCARS: Attestatiën, C.2464 (1731.05.11): folio 16.
- [S1070] Arnoldus Coevoet, Letters in the estate file of Arnoldus Coevoet - transcribed (MOOC) 14/8/3/7, Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Roeland Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, transcribed by TEPC/Transcription of Estate Papers at the Cape of Good, edited by Susan Newton-King, Brief 8 [My thanks to Susie Newton-King for sharing the transcriptions of these letters as edited by her.]. Hereinafter cited as Arnoldus Coevoet Letters.
- [S1003] Slave Lodge, Cape Town, census for 1727 compiled by Robert C-H Shell, Cape Town (16 July 2003) "Year 1727
First Name Maria
Matronym van Diana
Toponym van de Caab
Birth Place Creole
Place Of Birth South Africa
Continent Africa
Gender Female
Domicile/Workplace Lodge
Status Slave
Relatives None mentioned
RelativeName No names
Source Reference Cape Town Archives, C.344
Document Title Monster rolle van soodanige slaven, bandietten en slavinnen
Date 1727.02.28
Page 131
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Year 1727
First Name Diana
Matronym van Maria van Diana
Toponym van de Caab
Birth Place Creole
Place Of Birth South Africa
Continent Africa
Gender Female
Age Group Adolescent
Domicile/Workplace Lodge
Status Child
Occupation Halfwassen Meijden
Relatives None mentioned
RelativeName No names
Source Reference Cape Town Archives, C.344
Document Title Monster rolle van soodanige slaven, bandietten en slavinnen
Date 1727.02.28
Page 138
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Year 1727
First Name Christijn
Matronym van Maria van Diana
Toponym van de Caab
Birth Place Creole
Place Of Birth South Africa
Continent Africa
Gender Female
Age 1.3
Age Group Infant
Domicile/Workplace Lodge
Status Child
Occupation Suckling girls (Suijgelingen Meijsjes)
Occupational Group Dependnt
Relatives None mentioned
RelativeName No names
Source Reference Cape Town Archives, C.344
Document Title Monster rolle van soodanige slaven, bandietten en slavinnen
Date 1727.02.28
Page 139."