Amsoeboe van Timor1
M, #6299, b. circa 1640, d. before 4 February 1708
Names in the record, in publications, etc. | 1682, the name of Amsoeboe was written in the record as Paay Timorees.5 March 1683, the name of Amsoeboe was written in the record as Paij Moor.6 1692, the name of Amsoeboe was written in the record as Pay Timoor.7 |
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls) | 1692 Amsoeboe van Timor was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in de Caep de Goede Hoop, along with two daughters, likely.8 Gerrit Theunisz appeared on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) of 1692 de Caep de Goede Hoop, he was enumerated next to Amsoeboe van Timor.9 Gerrit Theunisz and Iba van Timor appeared on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) of 1697 de Caep de Goede Hoop, enumerated with them was Iba's father, Amsoeboe van Timor under the name of Clasius van Timor.10 |
Citations
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Pai Timor - the 'accomodatory' life and times of a 17th century exiled slave family from Timor', 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), July 2012.
- [S21] Date estimated by compiler, Delia Robertson and, unless there is corroborating information, should not be considered as anything more than a guide.
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Finally, the rotting corpse of one of Cape Town’s first recorded bergies - the town beggar Paay Moor is discovered (4 February 1708) in his hut in the Company Gardens. After judicial inquiry, the decomposed is buried on the same spot."
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "The following year (March 1683) the clearly impoverished family's meagre worldy goods are inventorized by the Orphan Chamber - presumably after the death of Inabe alias Ansela. The only items listed are:
1 kettle,1 blanket, 1 cushion and cover, 2 piece of old sail cloth, 1 lamp, 1 oil pot, 1 barrel with rice pots and pans and other lumber (later given to the knechts [presumably Company servants]) and 1 chest with some inconsequential contents."
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "1682 (Opgaaf): Paay Timorees & Ansela van Timor."
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "(Inventory: Paij Moor, March 1683)."
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "1692 (Opgaaf): No 89: Pay Timoor (vryswart): 1 man; 2 daughters; Cape.
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- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "1692 (Opgaaf): Pay Timoor [no wife] & 2 daughters; listed as moolenaar."
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "1695 (Opgaaf): Gerrit Teunissz en Antonica Timor Cape District."
- [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "1697 (muster roll): Clasius [Darius?] van Timor appears with Gerrit Theunisz: (from Utrecht) & Athoni[que]."
- [S629] Personal communications between Mansell Upham and Delia Robertson, 2010-present. His maternal grandparents were Lourenz Campher from Morrouw (ie Mohrow in Pomerania) and the freed ‘half-caste’ Company slave woman Ansela van de Caep. His maternal great-grandparents were the slaves from Timor known as Paaij Timoor and Ansela van Timor.