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

Fransisco van Jaffnapatnam¹

M, #19020, b. circa 1655

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11/03/2019

BirthOrigin*

Fransisco was from Jaffnapatnam and was perhaps born there circa 1655. The date is estimated. He was exiled in chains to the Cape for 50-years, viz.: wegens overspel voor 50 jaren in de ketting gebannen is overgekomen per 't schip 'ASIA' Ao. 1680.¹

(PoliticalPrisoner) ShipVoyage

Fransisco van Jaffnapatnam witnessed the New Tag of Azië on 24 November 1679 (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.¹

Citations

[S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, A calendar of bondage in southern Africa, 1550 to 1888, CD-ROM; ISBN 1-86918-063-1; (Cape Town: Ancestry24, September 2007), section on the princes of macassar, citing Letters despatched: Lijst … de … Macasarschen Princen C.501. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.