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

Francoijs van Ceijlon¹

M, #16201, b. circa 1670

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Last Edited

04/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Francoijs was from Ceylon and was perhaps born there circa 1670. His age was not stipulated in 1695.¹

Slave Transactions

On 9 June 1695 Francoijs van Ceijlon was sold by Jan Brommert to Theunis Dircksen van Schalckwyck, for Rds. 100.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p.170.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700, p.170. 9.6.1695, p. 136: Francoijs from Ceylon (-), sold by Jan Brommert, navigating officer of De Swarte Leeuw, to Theunis Dircx van Schalkwijck for Rds. 100.