Claas Cornellisen van de Caep

M, #9368, b. circa 1663
Mother-Candidate*Cornelia Arabus b. 1647; candidate relationship, perhaps further evidence of this relationship will surface as I add records.1

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NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1665-1695
Last Edited20/08/2016
Birth*Claas Cornellisen van de Caep was born circa 1663 in de Caep de Goede Hoop.2
 
Marriage*He married Bertries van Couchin on 9 July 1690 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.2
 
(Witness) Event-Misc On 22 January 1699 ,Christoffel Snijman was perhaps in financial difficulties. as Claas Cornellisen van de Caep and Jacques de Savoye stood surety for him.3  
(Witness) BaptismPutativeHe and Sara van Gijselen witnessed the baptism of Margaretha Hartog on 18 April 1700 Nederduitsche Gereformeede Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.4 
Baptisms - WitnessOn 16 September 1663 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dom:e Petrus Cassier baptised 12 children, one of 'Netherland Christian' parents, the others were all children of company owned slaves. They were not named but Claas Cornellisen van de Caep were potentially among those baptised on this day.5,6
He witnessed the baptism of Appolonia van de Caep on 2 January 1688 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.7
He witnessed the baptism of Juliaan NN on 26 June 1689 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.8
He and Maria Losëe witnessed the baptism of Joannes Pretorius on 27 May 1691 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.9
He and Bertries van Couchin witnessed the baptism of Anna Heyns on 23 September 1691 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.10
He and Bertries van Couchin witnessed the baptism of Michiel Eksteen on 26 April 1705 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).11
Slave TransactionsOn 19 January 1696 Maurits van Poelsere was sold by Christiaen van Alst to Claas Cornellisen van de Caep, for Rds. 95.12

Citations

  1. [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. "Cornelia was possibly mother to at least the following two children:
    b2     Claes [Cornelisz:] van de Caep Company mesties born c. 1663; baptized Cape [?] 16 September 1663; Church member & communicant (21 December 1689); appointed teacher of Company slave children (15 September 1687); manumitted at majority (25) in terms of white paternity (1688); 12 August 1701 granted property; deceased by 1709."
  2. [S392] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: 1690
    Den:9:Julij:
    Zijn in den huwelijken staat vereenigt Claas Cornellisen jonkman van de Caab met Bertries van Couchin jonge dogter, 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. [S203] Mansell Upham 'Cape Mothers: Groote Catrijn van Paliacatta (c. 1631-1683), her slave Maria van Bengale & her daughter-in-law Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye (1673-1742)', 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), October 2014. "On 22 January 1699 the free-black Claes Cornelisz van de Caep, together with Jacques de Savoye, stood surety for his son-in-law, Christoffel Snijman. Was Snijman in financial trouble?"
  4. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[1700] 18 april Een kint van Jannetie van Wyk, onder getuyge van Claas Cornelis en Sara Leendertz, gen:t Margrieta
    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/…,49605402,49605403,49605404 - last accessed 18 Apr 2014."
  5. [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.
  6. [S574] H.C.V. Leibbrandt Compiler, (Castle Street, Cape Town: W.A. Richards & Sons, 1901), p.72, In the meanwhile we dutifully held our religious service, and as the Rev. Petrus Cassier was quite himself again, he preached an edifying sermon, after which 12 children were baptized. Only one however was found to be of Netherland Christian parents, the rest were all of the female slaves of the Company, mostly illegitimate and born from time to time.. Hereinafter cited as Journal 1662-1670 - Zacharias Wagenaer.
  7. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: [Ao. 1688]
    Den 2 Janrij. is een kint gedoopt van de E.Commandr. slavinne waar van de vader is [Caesar], de moeder Susanna de getuijge Claes Cornelisz: de naam van het kint is Appolonia, 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.).
  8. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Ao 1689
    eodem dito (26 Junius) een kind der slavinne van der Ed.Heer Comm[an]deur waer van moeder is Catrina van Bengalen, als ghetuijge Claes Cornelisz ende ghenaemt Juliaan, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  9. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1691; Den 27 dito (Maij) een kindt gedoopt waer van vader is Dirk Pretorius, ende moeder Margariet Hanze, als getuijge stondt Klaes Cornelisse, ende Maritie Douw[...]
    is genaemt Joannes., 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  10. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1691
    Den selfeen Dito (23 September) een kindt gedoopt waer van vader is
    Paul Hen[g]hst de moeder Maria Schalk als
    getuijge stondt Claes Cornelisse, met sijn
    huijsvrou Bentris van Coutchies is genamet
    Anna, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  11. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town): [26 April 1705] van Hendrik Oostwald van Eksteen, en Sara Heins onder ge-
    tuijge van Claas Cornelis en Beatris Cornelis, gent: - Michiel, (1695-1712), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/, http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town).
  12. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.171. 19.1.1696, p. 14: Maurits from Poelsere (16), sold by Christiaen van Alst to C1aes Cornelis for Rds. 95.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
 

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