Eva van Madagascar

F, #18811, b. circa 1677

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
Last Edited09/08/2017
BirthOrigin*Eva was from Madagascar and was perhaps born there circa 1677. The date is estimated based on her description as bejaerde, that is an adult, in 1692.1 
BaptismEva van Madagascar was baptized on 20 April 1692 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town).2 

Family
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NotesCirca 1700, there were apparently three contemporaneous Malagasy slave women named Eva. As is the case for all similarly named slaves it is often very difficult to work out who they were. The things I consider include:
---the age they were considered adult, which seems to have been when they reached puberty although in some instances seems to include prepubuscent children
---age gaps between children. The gaps between the birth of children seem predominantly to be between 12 to 36 months, but occasionally less or more
---naming patterns and the way some individuals are identified in the lodge census records in which both mothers and grandmothers are identified

All of this is further complicated by the fact that slaves sometimes passed between private owners without being recorded, and also sometimes passed from a private owner to the Company and even back again. In the case of these women, two appear to have remained privately owned, and one Company owned. However, it could be that there were only two. For now I am assuming there were three separate individuals and that Eva van Madagascar was owned by the Company, while Eva van Madagascar and Eva van Madagascar were privately owned.
Slaves Owned by the CompanyOn 20 April 1692 Eva van Madagascar was enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.3
On 7 November 1700 Eva van Madagascar and Maria van de Caep van Eva were enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.4

Citations

  1. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Den 20 Dito (April) sijn verscheiden bejaerde slaven ende slavinnen van
    de Ede. Comps. op hare voorgegeven belijdenisse[ ]
    gedoopt als Daniel, Adrian, Anthonij, Cornelis, J at an unknown age
    nis, Claes, alle ses van Madegasker
    Jacob van Zeilon; Eva, Magdalena, Anna, alle drie van
    Madagasker item twee slavinnen van de Ede. Heer Gouverneur
    waer van de eene genaemt is Maria, de andere Lijbet(sic), 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.).
  2. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): Den [20 April 1692] sijn verscheiden bejaerde slaven ende slavinnen van
    de Ede. Comps. op hare voorgegeven belijdenisse[ ]
    gedoopt als Daniel, Adrian, Anthonij, Cornelis, J at an unknown age
    nis, Claes, alle ses van Madegasker
    Jacob van Zeilon; Eva, Magdalena, Anna, alle drie van
    Madagasker item twee slavinnen van de Ede. Heer Gouverneur
    waer van de eene genaemt is Maria, de andere Lijbet(sic), 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  3. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1692
    Den 20 Dito (April) sijn verscheiden bejaerde slaven ende slavinnen van
    de Ede. Comps. op hare voorgegeven belijdenisse[ ]
    gedoopt als Daniel, Adrian, Anthonij, Cornelis, J at an unknown age
    nis, Claes, alle ses van Madegasker
    Jacob van Zeilon; Eva, Magdalena, Anna, alle drie van
    Madagasker item twee slavinnen van de Ede. Heer Gouverneur
    waer van de eene genaemt is Maria, de andere Lijbet(sic), 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  4. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org).
 

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