First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Pieter van de Caep¹

M, #7834, b. 12 September 1666

Mother-Candidate*

Christijn van Angola b. c 1648; This relationship is offered with a view toward further discovery in the record. When Martha and Pieter were baptised as the infant slaves of Elbert Diemer, Christijn van Angola appears to have been the only female slave owned by him

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695

Last Edited

13/09/2015

Baptisms

Pieter van de Caep was baptized on 12 September 1666 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by Christina Does and Elbert Diemer.²

Baptisms - Witness

Pieter van de Caep potentially witnessed the baptism of Lodewijk Bernardt Walter on 14 December 1710 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk (Cape Town), (Cape Town), this witness has not been positively identified.³

Slave Births

Before 12 September 1666, Pieter van de Caep was born in bondage and was owned by Elbert Diemer de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Slave Emancipations

On 26 April 1694 Pieter van de Caep was emancipated by Christina Does, on condition that he would faithfully serve her husband Joan Blesius and son Abraham Diemer for a further six years. If he did so, he would receive 150 weaned ewes.⁴

Citations

[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1666
[den 12e Sept:] twee slavinne kindderen van [Elbert] Diemers wierden genaemt Pieter en Martha onder getuiycheni[ss]e van [zijn] vrou en meester, 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.).
[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1666. [den 12e Sept:] twee slavinne kindderen van [Elbert] Diemers wierden genaemt Pieter en Martha onder getuiycheni[ss]e van [zijn] vrou en meester, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
[S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[14 December 1710] Een kind van Samuel Walter, en Catrijn van Ceijlon, Lijf-eijgen van den [Heer] Samuel Elzevier; de getuigen Sophia van de Caap, en Pieter van de Caap. - Lodewijk Bernardt
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[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.165. 26.4.1694: Pieter from the Cape (28), manumitted by Christina Does, the widow of Elbert Diemer on condition that he serves Joan Blesius and Abraham Diemer for another six years. (Christina was married to Joan Blesius and was a sister of Abraham Diemer.) If he served faithfully during the six year period, he was to receive 150 weaned ewes.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.