Anna Maria Dominicus1

F, #8652, b. circa 1683
Step-father*Domingo van Bengale1 b. c 1640
Mother*Maria van Bengale2 b. c 1660

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NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1665-1695
NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1695-1712NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1695-1712
NGK Stellenbosch Baptisms 1688-1732NGK Stellenbosch Baptisms 1688-1732
Last Edited17/10/2021
BaptismAnna Maria Dominicus was baptized on 13 December 1705 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.3 
Marriage*She married Claus Beust on 31 July 1707 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.4,5,6,7
 
MarriageShe married Christoffel Ameen on 26 December 1712 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.8,9
 

Family

Claus Beust b. c 1690, d. b 26 Dec 1712
Child
Names in the record, in publications, etc.31 July 1707, the name of Anna was written in the record as Anna Maria van de Caap.10
3 February 1709, the name of Anna was written in the record as Anna Maria de Meinekes.8
15 November 1711, the name of Anna was written in the record as Anna Maria Beeù.11
Baptisms - WitnessAnna Maria Dominicus and Claas Beu witnessed the baptism of Maria Vermeulen on 11 September 1707 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.12,13
She and Casper Janse witnessed the baptism of Jacoba Coetsee on 3 February 1709 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.14,15
She and Johann Vosloo witnessed the baptism of Andries Canfer on 15 November 1711 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop.16
Slave BirthsCirca 1683, Anna Maria Dominicus was born in bondage de Caep de Goede Hoop.17,18
Slave EmancipationsOn 31 May 1706 de Caep de Goede Hoop, Anna Maria Dominicus, aged 32, and her 5-year-old daughter Elsje Katrina Beu, owned by Adriaen van Rheede, were purchased into freedom by her future husband and her daughter's father, Claus Beust. A condition of the manumission was that Beust was to be responsible for the future care of his daughter.19

Citations

  1. [S665] Mansell Upham 'Johanna Kemp - An enquiry into the ancestry of the Cape-born Johanna Kemp (c. 1689-1778) - wife of Jacob Krüger (from Sadenbeck)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (This article is under review), March 2012. "Footnote 14. For example, the free-black Anna Maria van de Caep later assumed the name Dominicus after her stepfather, the fisherman & former convict den Chinees Domingo van Bengale."
  2. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Who is Jannetje Rutgertroost? A genealogical investigation into the origins of a Cape of Good Hope-born mesties woman variously found in the records as: Jannetie / Jannetie Hans:/Hanse: Rutgertroost', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), April 2012. "Her likely children are:
    ...Anna Maria van de Caep alias Anna Maria Dominicus mesties baptized 13 December 1705 Anna Maria with daughter Elsje Katrina as privately owned slaves; manumitted 31 May 1706."
  3. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "Slaven Kinder der Vrijborgers of Comps Dienaeren [includes adult baptism].
    13 Dec [1705]: Na voorgaande belydenis gedoopt Anna Maria
    En haar dogeter Elsje Katrina
    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11116-195029-2, last accessed 9 May 2011."
  4. [S629] Personal communications between Mansell Upham and Delia Robertson, 2010-present. 31 July 1707:
    Claes Beu van Ditmaarsen, jongman
    met
    Anna Maria van de Caap.
  5. [S700] VC 604, NGK Marriage Registers 1696-1712 (Cape Town), 1695-1712: Den 31 Julii
    Claes Beu van Ditmaarsen jonck-
    man met Anna Maria van de
    Caap
    "Kerkboek 1695-1712," p. 103, 31 Jul 1707, marriage entry for Claes Beu and Anna Maria van de Caap, transcribed by Corney Keller, (24 Mar 2012), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/. Hereinafter cited as NGK Marriage Registers 1696-1712 (Cape Town).
  6. [S204] Dr. J. Hoge, Personalia of the Germans at the Cape, 1652-1806, Archives Year Book for South African History (Cape Town: Government Printer, Union of South Africa, 1946), BEUST, CLAUS (S Beust and Beusz).-"Aalst" in Dithmarschen. Sa. 1696, farmhand 1706. ~ 31.7.170 Anna Maria of the C. One daughter. Elsje Catharina, born about 1700 (~ (1) 20.6.1717 Joachim Posthumus of Bolswaard, (2) 26.1.1744 Johann Meyer of Rothenthal (q.v.)). † about 1711. (GMR 1696; C3 1125: 118; Test. CJ 1068: 57; Test. O.C. 2: 68; CJ 1257: 178.). Hereinafter cited as Personalia.
  7. [S325] Lorna Newcomb and Ockert Malan, compilers, Annale van Nederduits Gereformeerde Moedergemeente Stellenbosch No 1.., CD-ROM (Stellenbosch) Die Genootskap vir die Kerkversameling, 2004 0-9584832-1-3), Baptism Register, Note attached to witness at baptism of Andries Canfer on 15 Nov 1711; Lorna:
    31.7.1707 trou "Claas Beu van Ditmaarsen jonckman met Anna Maria van de Caap.". Hereinafter cited as Palmkronieke I Baptisms.
  8. [S629] Mansell Upham.
  9. [S700] VC 604, NGK Marriage Registers 1696-1712 (Cape Town) transcribed by Corney Keller: d:o (26 December)
    Christoffel Ameen, van
    Rostok, jongm: met Anna Maria,
    van Cabo de Goede Hoop, wed:e van
    Claas Beu.
    "Kerkboek 1695-1712," p. 110, 26 Dec 1712, marriage entry for Christoffel Ameen and Anna Maria, 24 Mar 2012, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/
  10. [S700] VC 604, NGK Marriage Registers 1696-1712 (Cape Town) transcribed by Corney Keller: "Kerkboek 1695-1712," p. 103, 31 Jul 1707, marriage entry for Claes Beu and Anna Maria van de Caap, 24 Mar 2012, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/
  11. [S325] Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms, Andries, d'vader Cornelis Canfer, d'moeder dorothea oelofse, getù Johannes Vosloo met Anna Maria Beeù, 15 9br 1711.
  12. [S674] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 30 Jannetje Rutgertroost', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "11 septemb.[e]r [1707]     Van Derk [sic] Vermeulen en Jannetie Hanse, onder getuijgen van Klaas Bue en Anna Marij                          Maria."
  13. [S734] VC 604, NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town): [11 September 1707] van Derk vermeulen en Jannetie Hanse, onder getuijgen van Klaas Bue en Anna Marij. - Maria, (1695-1712), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/, http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as NGK Baptism Registers 1695-1712 (Cape Town).
  14. [S502] Website Family Search (www.familysearch.org) "do. [1709: 3 Febrùarij] van Hans Jùurrien van Saltsbùrg en Eliszabeth Laùrensz. de Getùigen Caspar Jansz. en Anna Maria de Meinekes.
    https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/…."
  15. [S326] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Die Blanke Nageslag van Louis van Bengale en Lijsbeth van die Kaap", Kronos (Die Blanke nageslag . . .) 1 (1979). Hereinafter cited as "Die Blanke nageslag."
  16. [S325] Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms, Andries, d' Vader Cornelis Canfer, d' Moeder Dorothea Oelofse, getù Johannes Vosloo, met Anna Maria Beeù. 15e 9br 1711.
  17. [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), Age:       32
    Sale Transaction Day:       31     
    Sale Transaction Month:       5     
    Sale Transaction Year:       1706. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.
  18. [S325] Baptism Register, Palmkronieke I Baptisms.
  19. [S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, Slave First Name:       Anne     
    Second Name:       Maria     
    Toponym:       van der Kaap
    Age:       32

    Slave First Name:       Elsje     
    Second Name:       Catharina     
    Toponym:       van der Kaap
    Age:       5
    Sale Transaction Day:       31     
    Sale Transaction Month:       5     
    Sale Transaction Year:       1706.
  20. [S153] J.A. Heese & R.T.J. Lombard, South African Genealogies 1 A-C, HSRC SA Genealogies (Pretoria: Institute for Historical Research, Division Genealogical Research, Pretoria, 1986, 1989), ISBN 0-620-23962-X, p. 258. Hereinafter cited as S.A. Genealogies 1.
 

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