Hendrik Lacus

M, #7926, b. circa 1635

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited18/07/2017
Birth*Hendrik Lacus was born circa 1635 in Wesel, was from.1,2
 
Marriage*He married Lidia de Pape, daughter of Do. Nathanael de Pape and Elisabet Heenbergh, on 29 October 1662 de Caep de Goede Hoop.3,4
 

Family

Lidia de Pape b. c 1640
Children
Monsterrollen and Opgaafrollen (Muster and tax rolls)In 1660 Hendrik Lacus was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as of Wesel, cadet.2
On 1 March 1661 Hendrik Lacus was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Wesel, land surveyor and assistent.5
On 1 April 1662 Hendrik Lacus was enumerated in the muster roll, he was recorded as from Wesel, land surveyor and assistant.6
Slave BirthsBefore 23 May 1667, Johannes van de Caep was born in bondage and was owned by Hendrik Lacus de Caep de Goede Hoop.7
Slave TransactionsIn September 1667 Dorothe van Angola, and presumably her putative son Johannes van de Caep, became forfeit to the Company when Hendrik Lacus was found guilty of theft and embezzlement.8
Slave EmancipationsIn 1671 de Caep de Goede Hoop Louis van Bengale purchased his own freedom after Hendrik Lacus his owner, was found guilty of fraud. The right to do so was granted by visiting Commissioner d'E Hr Gijsbrant Goske however he did not have enough money and it took him a year to persuade the authorities to accept as sufficient the sum of 50 reals, which was all he had.9
Slaves owned by individualsAfter 14 October 1657 Dorothe van Angola was owned by Hendrik Lacus.10
Louis van Bengale was a slave from Bengal who on 25 September 1666 de Caep de Goede Hoop was sold by Zacharias Wagenaer to the sekunde Hendrik Lacus and his wife Lidia de Pape for the sum of 80 rijksdaalders or f 270.11,12,13,9

Citations

  1. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: date of birth an arbirtary estimate by preparer based on daughter's date of baptism merely to facilitate a potential timeline for future research., 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.).
  2. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.299.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
  3. [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', 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), January 2012. "29 October 1662: He(i)ndrik Lacus (from Wesel) & Lydia de Pape; Den 29:en d:o is alhier voor den raet getrout Heindrick Lacus, van Wesel jongman, boeckhouder ende secretaris in dienst van d:n e: comp:e met Lijdia de Pape, bescheiden, jonghe dochter van den eerwaerdighen, Godt saligen dom:e Nathaniel de Pape, bescheiden predikant op 't schip genaemt Orangje, van wegen de kamer van Zeelant."
  4. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  5. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.302.
  6. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, p.305.
  7. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao 1667
    May 23 een slaefinne kindt van Hendrick Lacus wiert genaemt Johannes onder gtuijgchenisse van sijn vrouw, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  8. [S665] Mansell Upham 'Johanna Kemp - An enquiry into the ancestry of the Cape-born Johanna Kemp (c. 1689-1778) - wife of Jacob Krüger (from Sadenbeck)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (This article is under review), March 2012. "In September 1667 he is discharged from office and relegated to Robben Island (his wife joins him) for theft of Company goods and embezzlement of the Company money amounting to 6,865 gulders. Their slaves Dorothea van Angola and Louis van Bengale are confiscated."
  9. [S326] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die Blanke Nageslag van Louis van Bengale en Lijsbeth van die Kaap", Kronos (Die Blanke nageslag . . .) 1 (1979). Hereinafter cited as "Die Blanke nageslag."
  10. [S665] Mansell Upham 'Johanna Kemp', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Belonging to secunde Hendrik Lacus (from Wesel [duchy of Cleves]) and his wife, Juffr. Lijdia de Pape..."
  11. [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): 25.9.1666     CTD 3, p.111
    Die edelheer Zacharias Wagenaer, kommandeur, verkoop aan Hendrik Lacus, koopman en sekunde, die Bengaalse slaaf Louis, oud ongeveer … , vir 80 Rds of f 270. [Die getuies Dirck Bosch en Willem van Dieden het nie geteken nie.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  12. [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. "p.47. Louis was sold (25 September 1666) by his patron to secunde Hendrik Lacus (from Wesel) and his wife, Lijdia de Pape."
  13. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 126. 25.9.1666. III, pp. 111-112: Louis from Bengal, sold by Zacharias Wagenaer to Hendrik Lacus for Rds. 80 or 1240 light money.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  14. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): September Anno 1663

    Den selffden dag (2 Septebmer) heeft Dom. Petrus Kasier des namiddags een danckseggingh predikatie gedaen, ende gedoopt dese vier navolgende kinderen:

    het dochtertje van Heindrick Lacus, Fiscael en Secretaris in dienste van d'E. Comp. en is genaemt Lydia; de getuigen sijn d'E. Hr Over 't Water, Ordinaris Raet van India, en d'E. Hr Van Hoorn, Extra-ordinaris Raet van India, ende Juffrou Van Hoorn, sijn huijsvrouw, ende Juffvrou Wagenaers, de huijsvrouw van d'E Heer Commandr Wagenaer, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  15. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 23 August 1665 een dochter van
    Henrik Lacus by Lidia de Paper zyn huis
    vrouw, wierd genaamt Henriette: als
    getuigen stonden Isbrand Gosken en
    Maria Wagenaar, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  16. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): An. 1669
    Den 15 Decemb'
    een dochtertie van Hendrik Lacus en Lydea de Pape syn huysvr' wiert genaemt Elisabet, tot getuygen stonden Herman Gres nigh en Zandrina Jacobs, huysvro' van de luythenant Joan Coon in plaetze van Do' Nathanael de Pape, en Elisabet Heenbergh syn huysvr', 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
 

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