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

Fredrick van de Caep van Lysbeth¹

M, #18773, b. before 11 January 1699

Mother*

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Last Edited

29/07/2017

Birth*

Fredrick van de Caep van Lysbeth was born before 11 January 1699 in de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Baptism

Fredrick van de Caep van Lysbeth was baptized on 11 January 1699 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).²

RacialDesignation*

On 11 January 1699 Fredrick van de Caep van Lysbeth was described as heelslag, a racial tag meaning both parents were African or Asian. For more on the racial and social typecasting of the period, visit this page: Nomenclature & identity tags peculiar to the Cape of Good Hope deriving from an individual’s legal status made for legally-entrenched hierarchic discrimination.¹

Slaves Owned by the Company

On 11 January 1699 Lysbeth van de Caep and Fredrick van de Caep van Lysbeth were enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.³

Citations

[S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org).
[S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "[11 Januarie 1699] een kint
van Cornelia vande Caep gent. Catarina, [Castijs]
van Anna vande Caep gent. Geertruijd, [Halfslag]
van Lysbeth vande Caep gent. Fredrick, [Heelslag]
familysearch.org."
[S33] C.C. de Villiers & C. Pama, Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families I A-K (Cape Town / Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1966). Hereinafter cited as Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families I A-K.