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Reiner van de Caep

M, #9852, b. before 29 June 1691

Mother*

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695

Last Edited

25/07/2017

Slave Birth - Company Owned

Reiner van de Caep was born in bondage before 29 June 1691 and was owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), Slave Lodge, de Caep de Goede Hoop, described as halfslag, a racial tag meaning he was mixed race, i.e. his father would most likely have been white. 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 Reiner van de Caep.¹

Baptism

Reiner van de Caep was baptized on 29 July 1691 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop. The baptism was witnessed by H. Capt Willem Padt and Andrijs de Man.¹

RacialDesignation*

On 29 June 1691 Reiner van de Caep 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.

Citations

[S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: 1691
den selfde Dito (29 Julij) sijn van de Edr. Comps' Slavinne inderen gedoopt
ten overstaen van Sr. Andrijs de Man, administr. deses
gouvernements, ende den E: Willem Padt Capt' als ghe=
=tuijgen van Comps' wegen.
een kindt van J[.]mara van de Caep genaemt Piter Bernardus halfslag
een kindt van Elisabet van de Caep genaemt Reiner halfslagh
een kindt van Sabetinana van Madagasker genaem(sic) Martha halfslagh
een kindt van Angorie van Madagasker genaemt Marcus halfslagh, 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.).