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

Frans van Malabar¹

M, #16358, b. 1674/75

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Last Edited

19/05/2015

BirthOrigin*

Frans was from the Malabar Coast and was perhaps born there in 1674/75. He was said to be 22 or 23 years old 1697.¹

Slave Transactions

On 11 May 1697 Frans van Malabar and Candas van Pattana were sold by Pieter van Helsdingen to Albert Coopman, for Rds. 130.²

Citations

[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 176.. 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. 176. 11.5.1697, p. 166 (verso): Frans from Malabar (22/23) and Candas (female) from Pattana (14/15), sold by Pieter van Helsdingen, fiscal of the Zion, to sick-comforter Albert Coopmans for Rds. 130.