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Margarita van der Caep

F, #9453, b. February 1680

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695

Last Edited

22/12/2014

Baptism

Margarita van der Caep was baptized on 19 April 1680 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by Mary van Couchyn and Titus van Bengale.¹

Slave Births

In February 1680, Margarita van der Caep was born in bondage and was owned by Tobias Vlasvath de Caep de Goede Hoop.^2,1

Slave Transactions

On 24 May 1680 Margarita van der Caep was gifted by Tobias Vlasvath, to Titus van Bengale de Caep de Goede Hoop, on at least three occasions, Vlasvath purchased, sold, or gifted very young children.²

Citations

[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1680
den 19 dito (April) Margarita
de vader Jacob een slave, de moeder
een slavin van Monsr. Vlasvat, Catarina
Titus van Bengale en Mary van Couchyn, 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.).
[S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 138, 24.5.1680: Catrina, a slave woman, belonging to the fiscal Tobias Vlasvat, had a child of two months old, called Margareta. The child's father was Jacob from Bengal. Vlasvath now gave the baby to Titus from Bengal, who had been the slave of the Commissioner, Sybrant Abbema, and who promised to look after the child until it was old enough to look after itself.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.