Rebekka van Bengal, SM/PROG - Married to Meyer as well?

cf Elisabeth / Rebecca van Bengal, SM/PROG and Carel Jansz van Bengalen, SV/PROG and Andreas Meyer

Sharon Doubell Elizabeth's profile as per link give a deleted profile?https://www.geni.com/people/Elisabeth-Meyer-SM-PROG/600000013446043

Elisabeth / Rebecca van Bengal, SM/PROG

Not this: Rebecca of Bengal was merged into Elisabeth Rebecca van Bengalen Meyer, SM/PROG ? by Leoné Gardner.11 May at 4:22 AM · view · undo

Yes - that's it. It was merged in

Sharon Doubell -- How about putting both Elizabeth and Rebecca in the first name field, since you do not want something hard-typed in the Display Name field, and without it and with only Elizabeth in the first name field, most of us just see her referred to as Elizabeth -- but this Discussion and the comments on her About refer to her as Rebekka or Rebecca

Sharon, I haven't thought about this for a while, so I don't have much to add to the discussion at this point. I will just note that Rebekka is my direct all-maternal-line 8th ggm, hence we share the MT DNA which is R30a. I wonder if there are other living individuals (apart from my direct family) that are all-meternal descendants to compare.

Another side note is that I find it strange that Carel van Bengalen would be the same person as Carel van Bombaaij, unless there is some error in some document - since Bombay and Bengal are on opposite sides of the Indian subcontinent.

Private User and Sharon Doubell

The document that records Carel Janze as being from Bombay is the baptism of Rebekka and her three children. It was originally added to the profile as a source by Marie Vermeulen-Boshoff . I have added a description and the familysearch link.

Private User and Sharon Doubell

BEING A SLAVE
Histories and Legacies of European Slavery
in the Indian Ocean

Edited by
Alicia Schrikker
and

Nira Wickramasinghe

Leiden University Press

Pg 69 and 70

accessible at:

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46138

In a postscript to his letter from 1732, the school teacher Domingos
Dias asked Nicolaas to find out what had happened to a pair of slaves who had been taken to the Cape almost 25 years earlier by Governor Cornelis Joannes Simonsz (1703–1707), where he was to review the state of the colony on behalf of the Council of the Indies (Letter 33):18
"When Governor Señor Simonsz was on his way to Holland he sold his
servant, named Hannibal, our godson, and his wife, a Bengali woman,
named Flora, to a Free Burgher at the Cape. Later, after the Free Burgher had died, the Señor (i.e. Simonsz), on leaving for Holland, set them free. Afterwards, Hannibal died. After that, that woman Flora married someone else. If I remember well his name was Frans. Flora is a Bengali a70 being b beinnd very short. Could you find out and let me know if she is still alive. For, when Hannibal was still alive, he sent me a barrel of cabbage. I still have the 10 reals with me which I made out of selling the cabbage. Having found out where she lives I could send those ten reals to her. Or you could give them directly to her. In that case, you give her the money and ask her to sign a receipt. Send this letter with her signature to your mother here and I will give the money in cash to your mother.

Nicolaas did find Flora; however, her second husband was not called Frans but Karel Jansz van Bombay. Contact between godfather and godchild was re-established"

The above excerpt seems to confirm that the Karel Jansz that was married to Flora was referred to as "from Bombay".