Marij van Angola1

F, #8050, b. circa 1647

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited11/08/2018
Birth*Marij van Angola was born circa 1647.2
 

Family
Children
  • Maria Losëe+ b. b 12 Sep 1666; putative relationship, offered with a view toward further discovery in the record.13
  • Cornelia Bogaerts+ b. May 1669; putative relationship, offered with a view toward further discovery in the record.14,15
DNA*Divon Lan has kindly shared the general composition of his mother's DNA analysis which shows .6% west African DNA in his 'recent' ancestry. Examination of his entire ancestry gleaned from available records, reveals that the only likely ancestor from whom he may derive this DNA is Maria Losee/Lozee. This points to Maria's mother being from west Africa - and strongly supports the theory that she is the slave woman Maria van Angola - previously presumed to be from Bali. 
(Slave) ShipVoyage On 14 October 1657 the Amersfoort departed Vlie enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 28 March 1658. With more than half the journey completed, on 23 January 1658, probably off the coast of Angola, the Amersfoort sighted a Portuguese slaver with 500 slaves on board. After a 24-hour chase, the vessel was captured, and 250 slaves were taken aboard the Amersfoort for the journey to the Cape. The crippled Portuguese vessel was abandoned to whatever fate might befall her, 250 slaves and her crew.

Of those, when the Amersfoort heaved to in Table Bay two months later, only 174 had made it alive, most them, according to Jan van Riebeeck "girls and small boys" - among them were Marij van Angola.3,4,5 
Names in the record, in publications, etc.1 May 1665, the name of Marij was written in the record as Mary van Bali, it is very possible that Böeseken, in transcribing this transaction, misread Angoolse slavin for Baelse slavin - an error resulting from difficult paleography made worse by degraded copies. Due to recent DNA analysis of a descendant of Maria Losee/Lozee which strongly points to this woman being her mother, I have assumed this is the case, with a view toward further discovery in the record.6
Slave TransactionsMarij van Angola became a slave of Zacharias Wagenaer, when he bought her from Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck circa 7 May 1662 de Caep de Goede Hoop.7
On 1 May 1665 Marij was sold by Zacharias Wagenaer to Luitenant Johannes Coon, for Rds 70 or ƒ210. Böeseken refers to her as Mary possibly from the island of Balie, and notes that in the record she was said to be a Baelse slavin. She also describes her as Mari van Bali. In his transcription, Hattingh records her to be the slavin Marie. Interestingly, although Hattingh cites the CTD (previously T&S) p.249 he describes it as Verlore i.e. lost.8,9,10
Slaves owned by individualsBetween 6 May 1658 and 18 September 1659 Marij van Angola was owned by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck.11
Circa May 1669 Marij van Angola was owned by Luitenant Johannes Coon.12

Citations

  1. [S676] Attestation, C2391; Council of Policy, 4 September1652-6 February 1660, Western Cape Archives and Records Service as transcribed and annotated by Mansell Upham.
  2. [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.
    ...
    Zacharias Wagenaer buys:
    Marij van Angola [Maria van Goa [sic]]
    [DR: There were only two slaves from Goa at the Cape prior to 1700, one was Tidoor van Goa, the other Doningo van Goa]

    ...
    28 November 1665:     last bit of property sold in public auction.
  3. [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. "This was followed by the arrival of the Amersfoort (March 1658) offloading a cargo of mostly Brazil-bound Angola slave children (170 of whom 125 were not sent to Batavia) captured from the Portuguese off the coast of Brazil (sometime in January 1658)..."
  4. [S646] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, JVR Journal II, 1656-1658, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), p.113; March 28th. N. W. breeze. The Amersfoort casts anchor; had 323 men on her, 29 dead and 30 sick. The weakest brought on shore and exchanged for others. Was provided with refreshments for the crew and the slaves who were brought on shore, already reduced to 170 in number. Many of them still very ill; most of them girls and small boys, from whom for the next 4 or 5 years very little can be got.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal II 1656-1658.
  5. [S522] André van Rensburg, "Capensis (The Amersfoort)," October 2000. Hereinafter cited as "The Amersfoort."
  6. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.28: A year before [Wagenaer's] departure he sold the slave Mary, possible from the island of Balie, to the sergeant Johannes Coon. He was paid Rds 70 or ƒ210 for her - a considerable sum of money. [In the document she was called a "Baelse slavin"]. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  7. [S629] Personal communications between Mansell Upham and Delia Robertson, 2010-present. 7 May 1662:
    Departure:     Van Riebeeck & family leave Cape for Batavia.
    ...
    Zacharias Wagenaer buys:
    Marij van Angola [Maria van Goa [sic]]
    [DR: There were only two slaves from Goa at the Cape prior to 1700, one was Tidoor van Goa, the other Doningo van Goa]
    ...
    28 November 1665:     last bit of property sold in public auction.
  8. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.28: A year before [Wagenaer's] departure he sold the slave Mary, possibly from the island of Balie, to the sergeant Johannes Coon. He was paid Rds 70 or ƒ210 for her - a considerable sum of money. [In the document she was called a "Baelse slavin"]
    p.126: 1.5.1665: Marie van Bali, sold by Zacharias Wagenaerto Johannes Coon.
  9. [S606] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "A.J. Böeseken se Addendum van Kaapse slawe-verkoopstransaksies: Foute en regstellings", Kronos (Foute en regstellings) 9 (1984): 1.5.1665: Die prys van 70 Rds. is in die addendum uitgelaat. Johannes Coon se beroep word in die document as "vaendrigh" aangedui wat beteken dat hy 'n amptenaar van die V.O.C, was. Dit word in die addendum verswyg.. Hereinafter cited as "Foute en regstellings."
  10. [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): 1.5.1665     CTD 2, p.249 [Verlore]
    Die edele heer Zacharias kommandeur, verkoop aan mons. Johannes Coon, vaandrig, ‘n slavin Marie vir 70 Rds. [Geen ourderdom vermeld.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  11. [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.
    ...
    Zacharias Wagenaer buys:
    Marij van Angola [Maria van Goa [sic]]
    [DR: There were only two slaves from Goa at the Cape prior to 1700, one was Tidoor van Goa, the other Doningo van Goa]
    ...
    28 November 1665:     last bit of property sold in public auction.
  12. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: An. 1669. den May (day left blank). een dochtertje van Mary slavinne van de luyt: Coon wiert genamet Cornelia tot getuiyge stont Angila, 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.).
  13. [S657] Mansell Upham 'Hell and Paradise... Hope on Constantia / De Hel en Het Paradijs... De Hoop op Constantia: Jan Grof (died ante 1700) and his extended family at the Cape of Good Hope', 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), February 2012. "Maria (Marij) [? van Bali - error for Angola?] (purchased 1 May 1665 from Zacharias Wagenaer) who was mother to:
    Maria [Lozee] van de Caep (baptized Cape 12 September 1666)
    Cornelia van de Caep (baptized Cape May 1669)."
  14. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): An. 1669
    den May (day left blank)
    een dochtertje van Mary slavinne van de luyt: Coon wiert genamet Cornelia tot getuiyge stont Angila, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  15. [S657] Mansell Upham 'UL04 Hell and Paradise', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "Maria (Marij) [? van Bali - error for Angola?] (purchased 1 May 1665 from Zacharias Wagenaer) who was mother to:
    Maria [Lozee] van de Caep (baptized Cape 12 September 1666)
    Cornelia van de Caep (baptized Cape May 1669)
    Jan van Bengale (purchased 16 May 1666 from Jacob Cauw)
    Anthonij van de Cust Cormandel (purchased 4 April 1679 from Tobias Marquart)."
 

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