Isaac van Bengale

M, #9999, b. circa 1650, d. 1710

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NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695NGK (Cape Town) Baptisms 1665-1695
NGK (Cape Town) Marriages1695-1712NGK (Cape Town) Marriages 1695-1712
Last Edited24/01/2016
Birth*Isaac van Bengale was born circa 1650 in Bengal.1
 
BaptismIsaac van Bengale was baptized on 8 February 1693 Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.2,3 
Marriage*He married Maria da Costa van Bengale on 16 May 1701 Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.4,5,6
 
Death*He died in 1710 de Caep de Goede Hoop.7
 
Slave TransactionsOn 23 March 1668 Isaac van Bengale was sold by Zacharias Wagenaer to Augustinus Boccaert de Caep de Goede Hoop, for Rds 90.8,9,3
Slave EmancipationsIsaac van Bengale was emancipated before 25 August 1682, when he was granted an erf Table Valley.10

Citations

  1. [S397] NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: 1693
    den 8 Dito sijn diese ondergescrevene personen op hare voor
    gaende belijdenisse door het sacrament van
    den H: Doop Christi Kerke ingelijks
    Isaac van Bengalen met Catharina van
    Bengalen Willemina van Mauritius met
    Catrina van Mauritius, ende Maria Elisab[ ]
    van de Caep, alle vrhliede alhier, 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.): 1693
    den 8 Dito sijn diese ondergescrevene personen op hare voor
    gaende belijdenisse door het sacrament van
    den H: Doop Christi Kerke ingelijks
    Isaac van Bengalen met Catharina van
    Bengalen Willemina van Mauritius met
    Catrina van Mauritius, ende Maria Elisab[ ]
    van de Caep, alle vrijliede alhier, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
  3. [S681] Mansell Upham 'Pai Timor - the 'accomodatory' life and times of a 17th century exiled slave family from Timor', 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), July 2012. "Probably the same slave sold by Cape ex-commander Zacharias Wagenaer when returning to Netherlands from the East (1668) to Boccaert who likely sells him to Company."
  4. [S717] NGK G 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk - First Marriage Register at the Cape, 1665-1712: 16 May 1701:
    Isaak van Bengale Vrymans
    met
    Maria van de Cust Coromandel, as transcribed and annotated by Mansell Upham, (10 September 2012), Personal Library. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk - First Marriages.
  5. [S700] VC 604, NGK Marriage Registers 1696-1712 (Cape Town), 1695-1712: 16 Maij
    Isaac van Bengale vryeman met
    Maria vande Cust Cormandel
    "Kerkboek 1695-1712," p. 96, 16 May 1701, marriage entry for Isaac van Bengale and Maria vande Cust Cormandel, 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. [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "marries (16 May 1701); Maria (Marij) da Costa van Bengale."
  7. [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "dies (early 1710)."
  8. [S853] J.L. (Leon) Hattingh, "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)", Kronos - Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670) 15 (1988): 21.3.1668     CTD 3, p.213
    Die edele Zacharias Wagenaar, kommandeur en tans vise-kommandeur van die retoervloot op die skip 't Wapen van Middelburg, verkoop aan die onderkoopman en winkelier Augustinus Boekaert die slaaf Isak van Bengale vir 90 Rds. [Hoewel die name van twee getuies genoem word, teken net Wagenaer. Geen ouderdom vermeld.]. Hereinafter cited as "Kaapse noteriële stukke waarin slawe van vryburgers en amptenare vermeld word (1658 - 1730? 1670)."
  9. [S418] Anna J. Böeseken, Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1977), p. 127. 21.3.1668, pp. 213-214: Isaak from Bengal, sold by Zacharias Wagenaer who was sailing round the Cape on 't Wapen van Middelburg, to Augustinus Boekaert for Rds. 90.. Hereinafter cited as Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700.
  10. [S681] Mansell Upham 'Uprooted Lives 05 Pai Timor', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "manumitted (already by 1685) but no appearance as free-black (1682); granted (25 August 1685) erf in Table Valley."
 

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