Angela van Bengale

F, #6260, b. circa 1646, d. before 18 July 1720

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Last Edited06/04/2024
BirthOrigin*Angela was from Bengal and was perhaps born there circa 1646. She was baptised na gedaen belydenisse twee bejaerde personen, that is, as one of two adults. Majority at the time for women was 22.1 
BaptismAngela van Bengale was baptized on 29 April 1668 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by Catharina van Paliacatta.2 
Marriage*She married Arnoldus Willemsz on 15 December 1669 (Cape Town).3
 
Death*She died before 18 July 1720.4
 

Family 1

François de Coninck b. c 1655
Child

Family 2
Children

Family 3

Arnoldus Willemsz Basson b. c 1640, d. c 1691
Children
(Slave) ShipVoyage On 4 December 1656 the Amersfoort, Wapen van Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Wapen van Holland, Westfriesland and Prins Willem, ships of the return fleet, left Batavia enroute to the Cape where they docked on 21 February 1657. The Prins Willem brought the recently convicted and banished slave Catharina van Paliacatta, while the Amersfoort brought the slaves Angela van Bengale, Elisabeth van Bengale, Jan van Bengale, Claes van Bengale and Anna van Bengalen.5 
LandGrant* On 25 February 1667, Angela van Bengale was granted an erf in Heerestraat (modern day Strand Street), Table Valley. Heerestraat continued to the north; Wouter Mostert lived on the eastern border of the property; there was undeveloped property to the south toward Table Mountain; and the tail of the Lion's rump was on the western perimetre. It was 57' long, and 50' wide, rynlandse measure. She owned the property in full, was permitted to build on it, establish a garden, to sow , plant, bepoot [?]; and could sell it outright or hire it out. The first three years were tax free and the grant was made by Commandeur Cornelis van Quaelbergen.6,7 
(Witness) BaptismCandidateShe witnessed the baptism of Cornelia Bogaerts in May 1669 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.8 
Will*Angela van Bengale left a will on 13 January 1718 de Caep de Goede Hoop.9
Names in the record, in publications, etc.Between 15 December 1669 and 31 August 1670, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angila van Bengale.10,11
9 February 1673, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angela van Bengalen.
21 June 1679, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angiela van Bengale.
16 May 1683, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angila van Bengalen.
1692, the name of Angela was written in the record as Maaij Ansela van Bengale.12
28 October 1703, the name of Angela was written in the record as Anselaar van Bangale.13
25 November 1703, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angela Basson.14
15 June 1710, the name of Angela was written in the record as Engela van Bengalen.15
Baptisms - WitnessAngela van Bengale witnessed the baptism of Catharina van Paliacatta on 29 April 1668 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.16,12
She witnessed the baptism of Christoffel NN on 9 March 1669 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.17,12
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Willem Basson on 31 August 1670 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.11
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Gerrit Basson on 9 February 1673 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.18
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Johannes Basson on 14 July 1675 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.19
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Elsie Basson on 29 August 1677 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.20
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Michiel Basson on 29 June 1679 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.21,22
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Elsie NN on 29 June 1681 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.23
She is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Maria Basson on 16 May 1683 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.24
She witnessed the baptism of Susanna Snijman on 28 October 1703 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Drakenstein, de Caep de Goede Hoop.13
She and Christoffel Snijman witnessed the baptism of Willem van As on 25 November 1703 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.14,25
She and Reinier van der Sande witnessed the baptism of Engela Elizabeth Maasdorp on 5 August 1708 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).26
She and Michiel Basson witnessed the baptism of Arnoldus Maasdorp on 15 May 1710 de Caep de Goede Hoop.27
NotesMaaij Ansela and her family Johannes van As, Anna de Coningh, Jacobùs van As and Arnoldus Willemsz Basson are featured in Mansell Upham's article, Mooij Ansela & the black sheep of the family: A closer look at the events surrounding the first execution of a free-burgher in Cape colonial society for the murder of a non-European published in Capensis Volumes 4/1997 to 2/1999. This article is highly recommended further reading on this family.28
Slave TransactionsBetween 21 February 1657 and 18 September 1659 Angela van Bengale was sold by Rear-Admiral Pieter Kemp to Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck de Caep de Goede Hoop.28,29
On 19 April 1662 Angela van Bengale was sold by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck to Abraham Gabbema de Caep de Goede Hoop.30,31,32
Scipio Africanus van de Kust Malabar was hired out by Robert Carus, to Angela van Bengale on 29 March 1668, for a monthly fee of f 5. The parties were to be monitored by the fiscal, Cornelis de Cretser.33,34
On 8 May 1698 Pieter van Malabar was sold by William Erle to Angela van Bengale, for Rds. 50.35
On 20 June 1700 Arend van Bengale was sold by Oelof Bergh to Angela van Bengale, for Rds. 70.36
Slave EmancipationsAngela van Bengale was emancipated by Abraham Gabbema, on 13 April 1666. Anna de Coningh, Jacobùs van As and Johannes van As were most likely the children who were emancipated with her. The reason for her emancipation was stipulated as “seer geode en getrouwe diensten en andere pregnante redenen”. In an arrangement that in my view was crafted to ease her transition, in the first six months of freedom Angela was to work for Thomas Christoffel Müller in exchange for food and clothing. Thereafter if she wished to continue in his employ, Müller would have to pay her a salary; and, if she so wished, she would be entitled to leave his service. The emancipation document was signed by Gabbema but not the stipulated witnesses.37,38,28,39
Slaves owned by individualsAngela van Bengale was the slave of Rear-Admiral Pieter Kemp, on 4 December 1656 at Batavia, Java, Indonesia, , when they sailed with the return fleet to the Cape of Good Hope, where she remained. The fleet arrived on 21 February 1657.28

Citations

  1. [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide - Date estimate based on the statement in the baptismal record of 1668 that Angila was one of two "bejaerde personen" - indicating a adult person.
  2. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: an 1668
    den 29 April zijn gedoopt na gedaen belydenisse twee bejaerde personen, waer van de een genaemt wiert Angila de andere Catharien, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).
  3. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: [1669] den 15 Decemb'. Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel vrijman met Angila van Bengale, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar).
  4. [S331] Webpage Ball Family Records (www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk) "http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/basson/I002.html."
  5. [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "21 February 1657:     Return Fleet ex Batavia arrives:
    Prins Willem brings exiled convict (Company slave)
    Catharina (Groote Catrijn) van Paliacatta [Pulicat]
    Amersfoort brings 5 private slaves
    Angela / Engela (Maaij Ansela / Moeder Jagt) van Bengale [sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Elisabeth (Lijsbeth) van Bengale [misrecorded as Domingo [sic] - sold to Jan van Riebeeck]
    Jan van Bengale [sold to Jan Vetteman]
    Claes van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)]
    Anna van Bengale [sold to Jochum Cornelisz: Blancq (from Lübeck)].    "
  6. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", Kronos - Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670) 15 (1988): 25.2.1667                                              CTD 3, p.168
    Aan Angela van Bengale, gewese slavin van onderkoopman Abraham Gabbema, nou vrygekoop, word op haar versoek ‘n erf in Tafelvallei in Heerestraat toegeken, ten noorde daarvan is Heerestraat, ten ooste woon vryburger Wouter Cornelis Mostaert, ten suide is dit nog onbebou na Tafelberg, ten weste is die stert van Leeuwenberg, lank 57 voet, breed 50 voet rynlandse maat met die reg om die erf in volle eiendom te aanvaar, daarop te bou, tuine aan te lê, te besaai, beplant, bepoot asook om in geheel te verhuur of te verkoop met die eerste driejaar vry van belastings. [‘n 1673 afskrif.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  7. [S850] Mansell Upham 'Respectability Regained - Moeder Jagt`s truimphant reversal of her slave past', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), August 2014. "Maaij Ansela is granted (25 February 1667) an erf in Table valley by the new commander Cornelis van Quaelbergen, bordering to the north on the Heerestraat (present-day Strand Street) and on the east on the property of the burgher councillor Wouter Cornelisz: Mostaert (from Utrecht). She retains this house until her death (1720)."
  8. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): An. 1669
    den May (day left blank)
    een dochtertje van Mary slavinne van de luyt: Coon wiert genamet Cornelia tot getuiyge stont Angila, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  9. [S629] Personal communications between Mansell Upham and Delia Robertson, 2010-present. My thanks to Mansell Upham for the copy of Angela van Bengale's will and for the transcription.
  10. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar): den 15 Decemb'
    Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel vrijman met Angila van Bengale.    , May 2006, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  11. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den 31 August [1670]
    een soontje van Arnoldus Willemsz en Angila syn huysvr' wiert genaamt
    Willem tot getuygen stonden Jochem Marquaart en Jannitje Ferdinandus    , 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  12. [S203] Mansell Upham 'Cape Mothers: Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta (c. 1631-1683), her slave Maria van Bengale & her daughter-in-law Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye (1673-1742)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), October 2014.
  13. [S408] Drakenstein Heemkring, compilers, Drakenstein I Baptisms., CD-ROM (Paarl) Drakenstein Heemkring, 2006 , Baptism Register, 1703; 28ste October, Sùsanna. d'Vader Christoffel Snijman, Moeder Margareta de Savoije, getùygen Anselaar van Bangale.. Hereinafter cited as Drakenstein I Baptisms.
  14. [S408] Baptism Register, Drakenstein I Baptisms, 1703; 25ste ditto [10 Novemb]; Willem. de Vader Jacobùs van As, d' Moeder Helena Willemse, d' getùygen Angela Basson, Christoffel Snijman.
  15. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town): ... Engela van Bengaalen ..., (1695-1712), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/, http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town).
  16. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 29 April zijn gedoopt na gedaen belydenisse twee bejaerde personen, waer van de een genaemt wiert Angila de andere Catharien, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  17. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): [1669]; [de]n 9 Maert een soontje van Groote Catrijn wiert genaemt Christoffel tot getuyge stont Angila., 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  18. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 9 dito (Febr)
    Een soontje van Arnoldus Willemsz #
    (a note at the end of this page reads)
    # en Angela van Bengalen wierdt gen't
    Gerrit getuygen waren Hans Michell Callenbagh
    en Aeltie [too faint to read]    , 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  19. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): dito (Den 14 July) [1675]
    een soontie van Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesell en syn huysvrouw Angela van Bengalen wiert genaamt Johannes getuygen waeren Hendrick de Leeuw en Anneke [Steen]    , 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  20. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): [Den 29 Aug. 1677] Elsie. Arnoldus Willemsz van[lwpl] en Angela van Bengale Oolof Bergh van Gotteburg Sargeant in dienst van de E.Clomp en Adriana Sterreveldt huijsvr' van Hendrick Everts Smit, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  21. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): [1679] Den selfde dito (25 Junii)
    Michiel
    Arnoldus Willems en Angiela van Bengale
    Fredrick Bogelman en [Aegie V..s], 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  22. [S850] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 15 Moeder Jagt', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Michiel Basson (1679-1721) baptised 29 June 1679."
  23. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 29 dito (Junii) Elsie Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela van Bengale Juffrou ten Berghs, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  24. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 16 Maei Maria, Arnoldus Willems en Angila van Bengalen [witnesses were] Jan Vlack en Gertruit huisvrouw van Theunis Dircksen, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  25. [S153] J.A. Heese & R.T.J. Lombard, South African Genealogies 1 A-C, HSRC SA Genealogies (Pretoria: Institute for Historical Research, Division Genealogical Research, Pretoria, 1986, 1989), ISBN 0-620-23962-X, p. 85. Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 1.
  26. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town): 5 Augusti [1708] van Christiaan Maasdorp, en Maria Bason; de getuigen Rijnier vande Sande, en de wed: Bason. - Engela Elizabeth, 1695-1712, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/
  27. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town): D:o [15 Junij 1710] van Christiaan Maasdorp, en Maria Basson; de getuigen Michiel Basson, en Engela van Bengaalen. - Arnoldus, 1695-1712, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/
  28. [S374] Mansell G. Upham, "Capensis (Maaij Ansela)," Mooij Ansela & the black sheep of the family, 11/97 to 2/99. Hereinafter cited as "Maaij Ansela."
  29. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.125. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  30. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 19.4.1662     CTD I, p.305 [Verlore]
    Jan van Riebeeck, kommandeur, verkoop aan Abraham Gabbema, fiskaal, die Bengaalse slavin Angela. [Geen bedrag vermeld.]
  31. [S374] Mansell G. Upham, "Maaij Ansela," Mooij Ansela & the black sheep of the family, 11/97 to 2/99, Maaij Ansela was sold (19 April 1662) by Commander Jan van Riebeeck prior to his departure to Batavia. No children of hers whatsoever are mentioned and in any case do not appear to have been born yet.
  32. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.125: 19.4.1662, 1, p. 305: Angela from Bengal, sold by Jan van Ricbecck to Abraham Gabbema. No mention made of age, price, or what happened to her husband and three children.
  33. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 127. 29.3.1668, pp. 223-224: Scipio Africanus from the Coast of Malabar, given in hire by Robert Carus, skipper of 'f Wapen van Middelburg to Angela of Bengal for f5 a month. The fiscal, Cornelis de Cretser, was to keep a watchful eye on both parties of the contract.
  34. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 29.3.1668     CTD 3, p.223
    Robert Carus, skipper van die ‘t Wapen van Middelburg, gee Cornelis de Cretser, fiskaal, opdrag om toesig te hou oor die Bengaalse jonge Scipio Africanus van die Kus van Malabaar wat teen f 5 per maand aan Angela van Bengale verhuur is, veral as hy hom nie gedra soos behoort of deur Angela goed behandel word nie in welke geval hy hom dan aan iemand anders of in sy eie diens kan plaas. [Geen ouderdom vermeld.]
  35. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 185. 8.5.1698: Pieter from Malabar (22), sold by William Erle to Angela from Bengal, the widow of Arnoldus Willems, for Rds. 50.
  36. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 193. 20.6.1700: Arend from Bengal (22), sold by Olof Bergh to his mother-in-law, Angela Basson, for Rds. 70.
  37. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 13.4.1666     CTD 3, p.23
    Abraham Gabbema, onderkoopman en sekunde wat op vertrek staan na Bat[av]ia, verklaar weens ‘seer goede en getrouwe diensten en andere pregnante redenen’ en pure geneentheid sy slavin Angela, deur koop bekom, met haar drie kinders uit haar [huI] slawerny te verlos en ‘in goeden vrijen stant’ of vryheid te stel; op die voorwaarde dat sy vir ses maande by die vryburger Thomas Christoffel Muller sal woon en sodanige diens sal lewer waarvoor hierdie vryburger haar sal oplei sonder om haar daarvoor meer as kos en klere te gee, dog as die gemelde tyd verstreke is, sal sy nie langer hoef te bly as wat sy uit haar eie vrye wil verkies, en sy en die vryburger oor ‘n maandloon ooreen sal kom nie, ‘want sij niet meer voor lijffeijgen, maer voor een vrijgelatene sal gehouden ende erkennen worden’. [Alhoewel hierna staan dat dit geskied voor die getuies Dirck Bos en Pieter de Jonge, en hulle as sodanig sou teken, verskyn net die deftige handtekening van Gabbema.]
  38. [S606] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "A.J. Böeseken se Addendum van Kaapse slawe-verkoopstransaksies: Foute en regstellings", Kronos (Foute en regstellings) 9 (1984): 13.4.1666: Abraham Gabbema, Sekunde, stel net voor sy vertrek uit die Kaap vir Angela van Bengale (sy word hier Angelahens genoem) met haar drie kinders vry en wel uit hoofde van "seer geode en getrouwe diensten en andere pregnante redenen". Behalwe laasgenoemde redes vir haar vrystelling word ook nie in die addendum vermeld dat hierdie document deur niemand onderteken is nie.. Hereinafter cited as "Foute en regstellings."
  39. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p. 126. 13.4.1666, Ill, p. 120: The slave Angela from Bengal and her three children manumitted by Abraham Gabbema before his departure for Batavia. Provision made for Angela who would have to work for six months in the home of Thomas Christoffel Muller in return for food and clothes. If after six months they mutually agreed to continue the arrangement, Muller was to pay Angela a salary and allow her to leave his service, should she desire to do so.
  40. [S374] Mansell G. Upham, "Maaij Ansela," Mooij Ansela & the black sheep of the family, 11/97 to 2/99, . . . we cannot discount the possibility the the following two slave children, jointly baptised on 28 August 1661 were her two children:
    Jacob buiten echt geboren moeder niet vermeld
    Annetjie buiten echt geboren moeder niet vermeld . . .
  41. [S374] Mansell G. Upham, "Maaij Ansela," Mooij Ansela & the black sheep of the family, 11/97 to 2/99, The only likely candidate for her outstanding voorzoon, in the final analysis, then, would be Jan van As who was executed (1688), the same year in which Maaij Ansela appears minus one of her six sons in the muster roll for that year. At the time of his trial he is referred to as a seker vrijmans soon. It is significant that Jacobus van As chose to name his eldest son Johannes. We shall see later that documentary proof exists in the trial papers that Maaij Ansela's husband, Arnoldus Willemsz [Basson] (from Wesel) in de wandeling genaamd Jag(h)t, is specifically referred to as the stepfather (stijfvader) of the accused Jan van As.
  42. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den 3 Junius een soontje van Angila wiert genaemt Pieter tot getuijge stond. Catrine comp: slavinne doch christen, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  43. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den 31 August [1670]
    een soontje van Arnoldus Willemsz en Angila syn huysvr' wiert genaamt
    Willem tot getuygen stonden Jochem Marquaart en Jannitje Ferdinandus, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  44. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 9 dito (Febr)
    Een soontje van Arnoldus Willemsz #
    (a note at the end of this page reads)
    # en Angela van Bengalen wierdt gen't
    Gerrit getuygen waren Hans Michell Callenbagh
    en Aeltie [too faint to read], 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  45. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): dito (Den 14 July) [1675]
    een soontie van Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesell en syn huysvrouw Angela van Bengalen wiert genaamt Johannes getuygen waeren Hendrick de Leeuw en Anneke [Steen], 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  46. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den 29 Aug. Elsie
    Arnoldus Willemsz van[lwpl] en Angela van Bengale Oolof Bergh van Gotteburg Sargeant in dienst van de E.Clomp en Adriana Sterreveldt huijsvr' van Hendrick Everts Smit, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  47. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den selfde [21 jun 1679] dito Michiel
    Arnoldus Willemsz en Angiela van Bengale [Fredrick Bogelman en Aegie V..s], 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  48. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 29 dito (Junii) Elsie Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela van Bengale Juffrou ten Berghs, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  49. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 16 Maei Maria, Arnoldus Willems en Angila van Bengalen [witnesses were] Jan Vlack en Gertruit huisvrouw van Theunis Dircksen, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
 

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