Anna van Guinea

F, #6530, b. circa 1647
Mother*PN NN1,2

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited02/01/2016
Birth*Anna van Guinea was born circa 1647 in Guinea.3
 
Marriage De facto* Circa 1670 Anna van Guinea and Evert van Guinea were in a de facto relationship de Caep de Goede Hoop.4  

Family 1

Dirk van Guinea b. c 1628
Child

Family 2

Evert van Guinea b. c 1640, d. c 1688
Child
(Slave) ShipVoyage On 10 September 1657 the Hasselt departed the Cape (after an earlier false start) for Angola and the coast of 'Guinea' with orders to acquire slaves for the Cape. They had been deterred from attempting to purchase slaves at the bay of Luanda de St. Paulo by the presence of four other ships anchored there, and sailed on. They went first to Cape Lopez on the Gabonese coast for water and wood, and then proceeded to Andra, a slave-trading centre on the coast of upper Guinea. The vessel arrives at the Cape with 226 or 228 [different figures recorded contemporaneously] remaining from 271 originally embarked. Forty three or 45 died enroute and some women were already pregnant according to a later account. Eighty of the best 'Guinea' slaves were sent on to Batavia, and at the Cape a few abscond and many succomb to illness — by 5 March 1659 only 41 remain. The slaves had been purchased at what is now Grand Popo in present day Benin and would have come from as far afield as Sudan. The Hasslt arrived back at the Cape on 6 May 1658 and its slave cargo was discharged the following day. The following slaves would most likely have been among those who survived at the Cape: Abraham van Guinea, Adouke van Guinea, Anna van Guinea, Claas van Guinea, Deuxsous van Guinea, Evert van Guinea, Koddo van Guinea, Louis van Guinea, Maria van Guinea, Oude Hans van Guinea, Pieter van Guinea, Regina van Rapenberg van Guinea and Gegeima van Guinea.5,6 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.An unknown date , the name of Anna was written in the record as Hoena van Guinea.3
An unknown date , the name of Anna was written in the record as Hoen van Guinea.3
An unknown date , the name of Anna was written in the record as Dirkie van Guinea.3
An unknown date , the name of Anna was written in the record as Hoewj van Guinea.3
25 August 1661, the name of Anna was written in the record as Houwj van Guinea.7
Slave TransactionsOn 25 August 1661 Jan Dircksz van de Caep was sold by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, to Abraham Gabbema de Caep de Goede Hoop, he would have been less than 3 years old and was sold away from his mother Anna van Guinea and his father Dirk van Guinea.8,9,10
Circa 1662 Claes Kelder van Angola and Anna van Guinea were sold by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck to Hendrick Hendricksz Boom de Caep de Goede Hoop.11
On 6 January 1665, Hendrick Hendricksz Boom sold his entire household, including two unnamed adult slaves, most likely Anna van Guinea and Claes Kelder van Angola to Matthijs Coeijmans. Included in the transaction were two unnamed slave children, probably Lijsbeth Sanders and Maria Everts who were later recorded to be living with the couple.12,13
Slave EmancipationsCirca 1671 the freedom of Anna van Guinea and Maria Everts was most likely purchasedby Evert van Guinea from Matthijs Coeijmans. Evert was de facto spouse to Anna, and father to Maria.14
Slaves owned by individualsAfter 6 May 1658 Anna van Guinea was owned by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck.3

Citations

  1. [S845] Opgaafrol van burgers, 4036 VOC, 0035 GUINEA V VS EVERT 1113 8 2 2 19 3 1 K
    0036 GUINEA V VS TICONNE X 1 K
    0035BGUINEA V VS ANNA K
    0036BSUSTER V ANNA V GUINEA K; Algemene Rijksarchief, Den Haag, as transcribed by Hans Heese. Hereinafter cited as Opgaafrol Kaap 1682. My thanks to Hans Heese for sharing his transcription of this opgaaf.
  2. [S658] Mansell Upham 'Made or Marred by Time - the Other Armozijn & two enslaved Arabian 'princesses' at the Cape of Good Hope (1656)', 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), March 2012. "Regina van Guinea and Anna were sisters."
  3. [S676] Attestation, C2391; Council of Policy, 4 September1652-6 February 1660, Western Cape Archives and Records Service as transcribed and annotated by Mansell Upham, ende 2 d:[it]o slavinnen [Jajenne / Gegeima / Lobbetje & Dirkie / Hoewj / Hoen(a)/Anna].
  4. [S356] E-mails from Mansell Upham (e-mail address) to Delia Robertson, 2000 to 2008 (Personal Library, Email Upham).
  5. [S810] Mansell Upham 'At Earth's Extremest End… Op 't eijnde van de Aerd … The genealogical impact of the 'Angola' & 'Guinea' slaves at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century', 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. "pp. 5, 22-27."
  6. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), pp.10, 12. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  7. [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): … Guineese slawe Dirck en Houwj.. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  8. [S676] Attestation, C2391; Council of Policy, 4 September1652-6 February 1660, Western Cape Archives and Records Service as transcribed and annotated by Mansell Upham, 7 May 1662:
    Departure: Van Riebeeck & family leave Cape for Batavia.
    Abraham Gabbema buys:
    Maaij Ansela van Bnegale
    Marij van de Caep
    Jan Dircksz van de Caep.
  9. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.125: 25.8.1661, I, p. 277: Jan Dircksz. child of Jan Dircksz from Guinea and Houwj from Guinea, sold by Jan van Riebeeck to Abraham Gabbema. Age and price not mentioned in the document.
  10. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 25.8.1661      CTD I, p.277 [Verlore.]
    Jan van Riebeeck, kommandeur, verkoop aan Abraham Gabbema, fiskaal, die slafie Jan Dircksz hier gebore van sy Guineese slawe Dirck en Houwj. [Geen ouderdom of bedrag vermeld. Die moeder se naam kan ook Houwi wees.]
  11. [S629] Personal communications between Mansell Upham and Delia Robertson, 2010-present. Hendrik Boom buys (no record) Claes Kelder van Angola, Anna van Guinea.
  12. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", 6.1.1665     T30     T49 en T50     CTD 2, p.146
    Hendrick Hendricx Boom van Amsterdam, oud burgerraad, aan Matthijs Cooimans van Heerentals sy huis en erf te Tafelvallei, volgens die grondbriewe van 1 Maart 1660 en 15 Junie 1662, een morg 312 roede groot, asook 300 skape, een slaaf met ‘n slavin en twee slawe kinders asook al die tuingereedskap, melk-gereedskap asook alles wat nag los en naelvas is en daartoe behoort alles vir die bedrag van 5000 carolus gulde. [Op dieselfde dag teken Matijs Coijmans ‘n skuldbrief (p.148) vir dieselfde bedrag en al die eiendomme vir die delgingsperiod van vyf jaar. In geeneen van die dokumente word die slawe se name genoem nie.]
  13. [S658] Mansell Upham 'UL03 Made or Marred by Time', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "A repatriating Boom, sold (6 January 1665) his entire establishment (his house and erf in Table Valley) to the baker Matthijs Coeijmans (from Herentals). This included his two slaves "and 2 children": Anna van Guinea and Claes Kelder van Angola. Were the heelslag Lijsbeth Sanders: and Maria Everts: (Anna's daughter by Evert) the two children sold that day?"
  14. [S810] Mansell Upham 'UL 20 At Earth's Extremest End…', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Anna’s freedom - together with their Cape-born heelslag daughter Maria Everts: aka Swart Maria - is probably bought (1671) from the free-burgher and baker Matthias Cooman (from Ernstthal [Saxony]) - aka Matthijs Coeijmans - by Evert van Guinea the slave whom Jan van Riebeeck frees prematurely and gratuitously for collaboration."
  15. [S629] Mansell Upham.
 

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