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

Constantia van de Caep van Griet

F, #9440, b. 11 February 1680

Father*

Mother*

Griet NN¹ b. c 1650

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695

Last Edited

15/11/2022

Slave Birth - Company Owned

Constantia van de Caep van Griet was born in bondage before 11 February 1680 and was owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), de Caep de Goede Hoop Constantia van de Caep van Griet.¹

Family

Children

Jacobus van de Caep van Constantia b. b 15 Apr 1696; I have assumed this to be the correct mother - she is a company owned slave born to a father named Jacob, a name she seems to have given to her son⁴
Pieter van de Caep³ b. 25 May 1698
Margriet van de Caep van Constantia³ b. b 7 Nov 1700

Baptisms

Constantia van de Caep van Griet was baptized on 11 February 1680 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Baptisms - Witness

Constantia van de Caep van Griet potentially witnessed the baptism of Amerentie van de Caep on 13 May 1708 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop, this witness has not been positively identified.²

Slaves Owned by the Company

On 25 May 1698 Constantia van de Caep van Griet and Pieter van de Caep were enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.³
On 7 November 1700 Constantia van de Caep van Griet and Margriet van de Caep van Constantia were enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.³

Citations

[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1680
denselfden dito (11 Februy) Constantia
Jacob van Sunt Thomee en de moeder Griet een comp. slavin, 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.).
[S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[1708] 13. do. Meij) Een slaeven-kind van Gerrit Jansz. Van Aart; de Moeder is Anna van Bengaalen; de getùigen, Emanùel van Macasser, en Constantia van de Caap. Amerentie; https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/… ; last accessed 21 April 2012."
[S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org).
[S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[15 April 1696] gedoopt drie Slavinne kinderen vande [Edele Compagnie] waer van moeders
Constantia vande Kaep, genaemt — Jacobus, halfs:
Susanna vande Caep, genaemt —Pieter, halfs:
Eva vande Caep, genaemt — Sara, halfs:
familysearch.org."