Arnoldus Willemsz Basson

M, #7401, b. circa 1640, d. circa 1691

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Last Edited29/11/2015
Birth*Arnoldus Willemsz Basson was born circa 1640 in Wesel.1
 
Marriage*He married Angela van Bengale on 15 December 1669 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.2
 
Death*He died circa 1691.1
 

Family

Angela van Bengale b. c 1646, d. b 18 Jul 1720
Children
Origin*In the record of his marriage to Angela van Bengale on before 15 September 1669, Arnoldus Willemsz Basson was described as van Wesel.3 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.An unknown date , the name of Arnoldus was written in the record as Arnoldus Willemsz.
21 June 1679, the name of Arnoldus was written in the record as Anoldus Willemsz.
16 May 1683, the name of Arnoldus was written in the record as Arnoldus Willems.
Baptisms - WitnessArnoldus Willemsz 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.4
He 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.5
He 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.6
He 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.7
He 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.8,9
He 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.10
He 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.11
NotesArnoldus Willemsz Basson, Johannes van As, Anna de Coningh and Jacobùs van As are featured with Maaij Ansela 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.12
Slave TransactionsOn 20 December 1676 Abraham van Malabar was sold by Jochem Marquaert to Arnoldus Willems, for Rds. 60.13,14
On 20 May 1677 Isaac van Bengale was sold by Harman van der Kas to Arnoldus Willemsz Basson, for Rds. 50 or Rds. 60.15,16
On 20 March 1681 Jan Swart van der Kust Coromandel was sold by Jan Baptist to Arnoldus Willemsz Basson, for Rds. 50.17
On 26 April 1686 Unnamed and Gender Unspecified Slave van Madagascar was sold by William Deeron to Arnoldus Willemsz Basson, for Rds. 38.18
On 25 March 1724 Pieter van der Kust Coromandel was sold by Arnoldus Willemsz Basson to Jan Mijndertse Kruijwagen de Caep de Goede Hoop, for Rds. 113. Basson had died in 1698 - the reason this transaction and the inventory of his property is recorded so many years after his death is as yet unclear to me.19,20
Property TransactionsOn 17 February 1672 Henrick Barentze van der Zee sold De Bruijd and the traanbranders [whale oil smelters?] to the Saldanhavaerders Jurgen Cornelisz, Willem Cornelisz van Ijlpendam and Arnoldus Willemsz Basson, for an acknowledgement of debt in the amount of f 550. The two slaves, Simon van Angola and Gerrit van Bengale were not mentioned, however Gerrit appears to have returned to the ownership of Jochem Marquart, who subsequently emancipates him. Barentsz: appears to have later emancipated Sijmon, or at least expressed a sick-bed wish to do so.21

Citations

  1. [S331] Webpage Ball Family Records (www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk) "http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/basson/I001.html."
  2. [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).
  3. [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/
  4. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Den 31 August [1670]
    een soontje van Arnoldus Willemsz en Angila syn huysvr' wiert genaamt
    Willem tot getuygen stonden Jochem Marquaart en Jannitje Ferdinandus    , 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.).
  5. [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/
  6. [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/
  7. [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/
  8. [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/
  9. [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. "Michiel Basson (1679-1721) baptised 29 June 1679."
  10. [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/
  11. [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/
  12. [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."
  13. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 133. 20.12.]676: Abraham Casta [Coast] Malabar sold by Jochem Marquart to Arnoldus WiIlemsz for Rds. 60.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  14. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse notariële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (II), Die tweede Dekade 1671-1680", Kronos (Die notariële stukke II) 15 (1999): 20.12.1676          [Verlore]
    Jochem Marquart verkoop aan Arnoldus Willemsz die slaaf Abraham Casta Malabar vir 60 Rds.. Hereinafter cited as "Die notariële stukke II."
  15. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.134. 20.5.1677: Isaac Casta [Coast] from Bengal, sold by Harman van der Kas to Arnoldus Willemsz Basson for Rds. 50.
  16. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die notariële stukke II", 20.5.1677               TS I, g.p.
    Harmen van den Kas van Amsterdam, bottelier op die retoerskip ‘t Wapen van Alckmaer, verkoop aan Arnoldus Willemsz, vryburger die slaaf Isaac van Bengale vir 50 Rds. [Harmen X CassJ
    20.5.1677               TS I, g.p.
    Harmen van der Has van Amsterdam, bottelier op die retoerskip ‘t Wapen van Alckmaer, verkoop aan Arnoldus Willemsz, vryburger sy slaaf Isaac van Bengale vir 60 Rds.
  17. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.139. 20.3.1681: Jan Swart from the Coromandel Coast sold by Jan Baptist to Arnoldus Willemsz Basson for Rds. 50.
  18. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.145. 26.4.1686: A slave from Madagascar (14/15), sold by Will Deeron to Arnoldus Willems (Basson) for Rds. 38.
  19. [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.: MOOC8/4.120 1/2. Testator(s): Arnoldus Willemsz Basson. 26 September 1724
    Reference no.: MOOC10/3.64. Testator(s): Arnoldus Willemsz: Basson. 8 November 1724."
  20. [S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, A calendar of bondage in southern Africa, 1550 to 1888, CD-ROM; ISBN 1-86918-063-1; (Cape Town: Ancestry24, September 2007), Sequence IDNO:           0202
    Slaves First Name:           Isaac
    Slaves Middle Name:      Casta
    Presumed Place Of Origin:      van Bengal
    Day Of Sale:           20
    Month Of Sale:           5
    Year Of Sale:           1677
    Type Of Name:           Old Testament
    Continental Origin Code:      Indian Sub Continent
    Slaves Gender:           Male
    Price In Rixdollars:           60
    Sellers Last Name:           Van den Kas
    Sellers First Name:           Harmen
    Sellers Civil Status:           VOC employee
    Sellers Gender:           Male
    Sellers Domicile:           Transit-at sea
    Sellers Occupation:      Steward
    Buyers Last Name:           Basson
    Buyers First Name:           Willem Arnoldus
    Buyers Civil Status:      burgher
    Buyers Gender:           Male
    Buyers Domicile:           Table valley
    Buyers Occupation:      farmer
    Comments And References:      Ship: Ter Wapen Van Alkmaer
    Primary Reference:      Anna Boeseken; Appendices. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
  21. [S607] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die notariële stukke II", 16.1.1672     CTD 5. p. 157.
    [Op 17.2.1672 (p. 166) verkoop Barentsen die boot en traanbranders aan Jurriaen Cornelissen van Dronthem, Willem Cornelisz van Ijlpendam en Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesell, almal ‘Saldanhavaerders alhier’ vir ‘n skuldbrief van f 550. Van die slawe word nou geen melding gemaak nie.]
  22. [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/
  23. [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/
  24. [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/
  25. [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/
  26. [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/
  27. [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/
  28. [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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