Angela van Bengale, SM/PROG

And partner of Angela van Bengale?

Jan van As or Asschen was from Brussels and he arrived at the Cape in 1659, he then worked as a cooper.
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Arrival 1671 with his spouse at the Cape ?
Children still born in Netherlands 1660 to 1670 ?
Both correct?
Do not think this was this Johannes van As==

More likely Johannes van Asch arrived 1659 at the Cape her partner.

FFY -
https://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g7/p7409.htm

https://mansellupham.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/groote-catrijn-van-pa...
It is in this same return fleet that the slave women Dominga van Bengale[24] and Engela / Angela (Maaij Ans(i)ela) van Bengale[25] – both the personal property of Kemp – arrive at the Cape on the Amersfoort. They are sold by Kemp to the Cape’s commander, Jan van Riebeeck. Found recorded variously as: Ansela, Anselaar, Ansiela and Ansla – Ancilla is Latin for slave girl, servant girl or maidservant – and later popularly known as Maaij Ansela (literally ‘Ma Angela’), Angela becomes wife to the free-burgher Arnoldus Willemsz: (from Wesel [Duchy of Cleves]). Popularly known as Jagt, he is the progenitor of the Basson family in South Africa.

Angela van Bengale(c 1646 -< 18 July 1720)

x François de Coninck (c 1655 -)

• Anna de Coningh (c 1661 -)

Dec 1656 slave of Pieter Kemp in Batavia, Java, Indonesia.

4 December 1656 the Prins Willem left Amersfoot Batavia, together with Wapen van Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Wapen van Holland, & Westfriesland & brought the slaves Angela van Bengale, Elisabeth van Bengale, Jan van Bengale, Claes van Bengale and Anna van Bengalen to the Cape.

1657/8 Here Kemp sold her to Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck 1657/8

xx NN

• Jacobùs van As (bt 1661/1665 -)
• Johannes van As (c 1665, -23 Jan 1688
• Pieter (b3 Jun 1668 - )

25 February 1667, Angela van Bengale was granted an erf in Heerestraat by Commandeur Cornelis van Quaelbergen

xxx 15 December 1669, CT, Arnoldus Willemsz Basson (c 1640 - c 1691)

• Willem Basson (31 Aug 1670 -c Jun 1713)
• Gerrit Basson (< 9 Feb 1673 -)
• Johannes Basson (14 Jul 1675 - 1706)
• Elsie Basson (29 Aug 1677 - <29 Jun 1681)
• Michiel Basson (29 Jun 1679- c 1719)
• Elsie Basson (29 Jun 1681 -<1717)
• Maria Basson (16 May 1683 - c Nov 1713)

3 January 1718 left a will

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• http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archives...:

Cape Muster Roll 1688 Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela van Bengale

• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive... Muster Roll 1685 Arnoldus Willemsz en Ansela van Bengale 8 k.
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive... Muster Roll 1682 - free men Arnoldus Willemsz en Ansilla v. Bengale
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1679 Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela van Bengalen 5 k.
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1678 - free men Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela v. Bengale 7 k
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1671 - free men Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengalen 5 kinderen
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive... Muster Roll 1670 - free men Aernout Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengalen, 4 kinderen
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1666-67 - free men Gewesene Slavin Angela van Bengalen, 3 kinderen
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1672 - free men Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengale
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive... Cape Muster Roll 1672 - free men Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengale
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1674 - free men Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela v. Bengale 5 k.
• https://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archive...: Cape Muster Roll 1675 - free men Arnoldus Vissems en Angella v. Bengala 5 k.
• Originally Ansela, becoming Angela and finally Engela once assimilated into Cape colonial patrician society, she is respectfully referred to as Maaij Ansela; Maaij Ans(i)ela / Moeder Jagt
• Maai is blykbaar afgelei uit moei / of tante - 1e keer gedokumenteer 1201-1250 , wat eintlik die vleinaam is vir moeder WNT
• Possibly a member of one of the hunter-gatherer hill peoples dispersed throughout north-west Burma
• Possible Place of Birth - Zalegon, Bengal, (Bengal, Bangladesh, India) and procured by the Moghuls in Bengal.
• She is sold to the Dutch and taken to Batavia.
• Angela, Ansiela or Engela are the variants of the name of the same slave woman from Bengal who appears in many documents of the time. Later in life, in her matronly years, her name was pre-fixed with the old Portuguese-Melayu word for mother – Maai sometimes incorrectly projected as Mooij. Hence she is called Maai Angela of Bengal. The latter denotes that she was a first generation slave at the Cape and had originally been taken by slave-raiders from her home area in the Ganges Delta in Bengal – the north east of India and Bangladesh.

Angela/Ansela van Bengale

• http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6260.htm
• http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/first-slaves-cape
• https://camissamuseum.co.za/index.php/7-tributaries/2-african-asian...

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https://mansellupham.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/1st-land-grant-to-a-n...

1st land grant (25 February 1667) to a non-European woman at the Cape of Good Hope – Maaij Ansiela van Bengale

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Originally Ansela, becoming Angela and finally Engela once assimilated into Cape colonial patrician society, she is respectfully referred to as Maaij Ansela. Arriving at the Cape in the return fleet on the Amersfoort (1657), she is sold by the repatriating Pieter Kemp (former Capiteyn der Burgerije in Batavia) to Jan van Riebeeck, the Cape’s 1st VOC commander, and then to the secunde Abraham Gabbema. She becomes (1666) the Cape’s 3rd female slave (and 4th slave) to be freed. Unlike her predecessors who are liberated to be married, she (pregnant with a 4th Eurasian child) and her three children are manumitted by Gabbema.

At first indentured in return for food and clothes, she is granted (1667) an erf in Table Valley. The grant is exceptional. Rarely are freed slave women granted landed property. Engela is baptised (29 April 1668) and marries (15 December 1669) the free-burgher, Arnoldus Willemsz: Basson, nick-named Jagt. Seven children are born of the marriage. By marrying Jagt, Engela’s four Eurasian offspring are legitimized. She is one of only four Cape heelslag slave women to marry Europeans – only halfslag slave women are legally permitted to marry Europeans. Did Jagt’s dissenting background – his antecedents were adherents of the controversial proto-Hippie sect known as the ‘Family of Love’ – pave the way?

Throughout her long life Maaij Ansela astutely negotiates her rapidly upwardly mobile ascent by selecting caring VOC officials (Francois de Coninck and Johannes van As) that openly provide for her bastard offspring and finds a lawful husband Jagt willing to accommodate her and her four bastards. Together they spawn a mammoth Basson clan that permeates the entire Zwartland and beyond and every aspect of colonial life.

Angela's voorchildren

• Den 29 [Maert] April 1668. Cape zijn gedoopt [...] na gedaen belydenisse twe bejaerde personen, waer van de een genaemt wiert Angila de andere [Ca]tharien
• Den 3 Junius 1668 een soontje van Angila wiert genaemt Pieter tot getuijge stond. Catrine compan: slavinne doch christen

 [http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town...]

This Pieter is likely a 4th "voorkind" that Angela van Bengale had before she married Arnoldus Basson:

1. Anna de Koningh X Olof Bergh
2. Jacobus van As
3. Johannes van As
4. Pieter = 3 Jun 1668 (said to have died young, father unknown)

The baptismal record does not state that the mother Angila was "from Bengale", but confirmation seems to lie in muster roll data Marie Vermeulen Boshoff shared a few months ago (thanks again Marie!):

• Gewesene Slavin Angela van Bengalen, 3 kinderen 1666
• Aernout Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengalen, 4 kinderen 1670
• Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengalen 5 kinderen 1671
• Arnoldus Willemsz van Wesel en Angela van Bengale 1672
• Arnoldus Willemsz en Anchela 5 k 1673
• Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela v. Bengale 5 k. 1674
• Arnoldus Vissems en Angella v. Bengala 5 k. 1675
• Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela v. Bengale 7 k. 1678
• Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela van Bengalen 5 k. 1679
• Arnoldus Willemsz en Ansilla v. Bengale 1688
• Maaij Ansela, weduwe 5 kinderen 1692

For Angela to have had 5 children in 1671 after having had just one child (Willem) with Basson in 1670, and the next Basson child (Gerrit) only born in 1673, is evidence that she really did have a 4th voorkind and corroberates that this Pieter baptised 1668 was quite likely Angela van Bengale’s child which implies the baptism recorded a couple of months earlier for what appears to be the child's mother Angila was quite likely Angela van Bengale's.

Possible Koning and van As fathers?

There was a Francois de Coninck from Ghent at the Cape, he arrived as a soldier in August 1658. There was also a Marten Coninck from Hamburgh, a soldier who received his freedom on 22 June 1661

Jan van As or Asschen was from Brussels and he arrived at the Cape in 1659, he then worked as a cooper.

Angela was manumitted by Abraham Gabbema on 13/4/1666 with 3 children.

Angela got married on the 15 Dec 1669 to Arnoldus Willemsz BASSON

CHILDREN OF Arnoldus Willemsz BASSON and ANGELA VAN BENGALE:

1. Willem baptised Aug 1670, died 30 Jan 1713, X 18 March 1691 Helena Clements
2. Gerrit, X Johanna Rynick
3. Johannes (He died before his mother) X Zacharia Visser
4. Elsie (died young?)
5. Michiel = 26 Jun 1679 X Maria Daaldons, died before his mother.
6. Elsie = 29 Jun 1681 X Reynier van der Sande
7. Maria = 16 May 1683, X C Maasdorp
   

From Angela's estate inventory:

Reference no.: MOOC8/4.15 Testator(s): Ansla van Bengalen

18 Julij 1720

Staat en inventaris der goedere, nagelaten en met 'er dood ontruijmt, door Ansla van Bengalen wed:e Arnoldus Willemsse Basson door d' ondergeteekende gecommitt:e Weesmeesteren gedoen, naamentlijk Erfgenamen tot desen boedel behorende

• Anna de Koning huisvrouw van den edle capitijn Olof Bergh
• Catarina van der Sanden getrouwe met Gijsbert la Febre
• Arnoldus Maasdorp
• Jan van As, Matthijs van As, Willem van As − kinderen van Jacobus van As
• Arnoldus Basson, Matthijs Basson − kinderen van Willem Basson
• Arnoldus Basson, Michiel Basson, Jan Basson − kinderen van Michiel Basson
  

Misunderstanding from the Past Domingo as husband is WRONG!!!

In the past a misunderstanding developed that is still perpetuated today and needs to be corrected - that Angela van Bengale arrived in the Cape with a husband Domingo and 3 sons Jan Thomis and Claesje.

According to the slave transfer records, slaves Domingo, Jan, Thomisso and Claesje, ALL FROM ANGOLA, were sold by Jan van Riebeeck to Roelof de Man on 20/4/1662, one day after he sold Angela van Bengale to Abraham Gabbema. http://www.stamouers.com/Shell.PDF

These 4 slaves were thus from West Africa, likely arrived in the Cape with the Amersfoort in March 1558, whereas Angela arrived a year earlier and from Asia.

There was thus no familial relationship between them and her. They just also happened to be owned by van Riebeeck until April 1662.

[Slave Transactions in the Cape of Good Hope 1658-1700 by Sue Williamson, transcribed from Transporten en Schepenkennis].

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• Excellent Biography at the Cape Slave and Indigene People's Site by Patric Tariq Mellet

Arrived at the Cape on board the Amerfoort by Pieter Kemp in 1656/7.

She was born about 1648 in Bengal, India.

She was bapt. on 29 April 1668 at Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town)

Relationships and Children

• Anna de Coningh born. c 1661??  Anna de Koningh, b. Abt. 1657, Batavia, East Indies; d. Abt. 1733, Kaapstad, Kaap Koloni
• Jan van Assen

• Jacobùs van As born c.1661 - 1665
  
• Johannes van As born c.1665, d. 23 Jan 1688
  

• Domingo. He was born Abt. 1640 - Domingo of Bengal was sent to Robben Island on 17 July 1658.

• Jan Domingo
  
• Thomas Domingo
  
• Claesje Domingo
  

• married Arnoldus WIillemsz Basson 14 Dec 1669 in NG Church, Kaapstad, son of Willem Baesom and Elksen Boespinck. He was born 1647 in Wessel, Rhinland, Prussia, and died Abt. 1689.

• Willem Basson Bapt. 31 Aug 1670, d. c Jun 1713
  
• Gerrit Basson Bapt. 9 Feb 1673
  
• Johannes Basson Bapt. 14 Jul 1675, d. 1706
  
• Elsie Basson2 Bapt. 29 Aug 1677, d. b 29 Jun 1681
  
• Michiel Basson Bapt. 21 Jun 1679, d. c 1719
  
• Elsie Basson Bapt. 29 Jun 1681, d. b 1717
  
• Maria Basson Bapt. 16 May 1683, d. c Nov 1713
  

• NN Father of Pieter NN 3 Jun 1668

Slave Transactions involving Angela van Bengale.

• sold by Pieter Kemp, to Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck between 21 February 1657 and 18 September 1659
• sold by Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, to Abraham Gabbema on 19 April 1662 when van Riebeeck left the Cape.
• emancipated by Abraham Gabbema, on 13 April 1666 - Anna de Coningh, Jacobùs van As and Johannes van As were most likely her children who were emancipated with her. She had to serve 6 months to Thomas Christoffel Muller before she was freed. She was the 3rd Slave to be freed at the Cape.

Angela also owned slaves. She bought the 22 year old slave Pieter van Malabar in 1698. At the time she already owned Scipio Aficanus. In 1700, She bought Arend van Bengale.

Her Inventory (MOOC MOOC8/4.15 attached to this profile) dated 18 Jul 1720 lists the following slaves -

• 1 slave jongen gen:t van Jan Swart van Mallebaar
• 1 slave jongen gen:t Louis van de Kust
• 1 slave jongen gen:t Augustus van Bengalen
• 1 slavin gen:t Martha met haer kind
• 1 slavin gen:t Susanna met haer kind
• 1720.09.09 Trompet Madagskar, M Ansiela Bengal, BUYER: Van Wouter Vos De BASSON,A MOOC
• 1720.09.11 Pieter Madagaskar, M Ansiela Bengal, BUYER: Van Hendrik Moel 80.00 BASSON,A MOOC
• 1720.09.14 Claas Madagaskar M Ansiela Bengal, BUYER: Van Pieter W Heerden Van

Reference The First Fifty Years Project

At the time of her death she owned the farms Hondswijk in Drakenstein and Kronendal in Houtbay.

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Afrikaans

In 1655 koop Jan van Riebeeck die slavin Angela van Bengale(n) by Pieter Kemp. Toe Van Riebeeck se kleindogter, Johanna Maria, die Kaap in 1710 besoek, skryf sy in ’n brief van “Ansiela”, die vrou wat haar vader en sy broers en susters (d.w.s. die Van Riebeeck-kinders) opgepas het. Sy skryf verder dat Ansiela later met ’n Hollander getroud is en dat haar dogter die vrou van kaptein “B.” was. Dit is inderdaad so dat “Maai” Ansiela, ná haar vrystelling met Arnoldus Basson getroud is en die stammoeder van die Basson-familie in Suid-Afrika geword het. (Maai is blykbaar afgelei uit moei ‘tante’ [1e keer gedokumenteer 1201-1250] wat eintlik die vleinaam is vir moeder. WNT).

Terwyl Angela nog ’n slavin was, is haar dogter, Anna de Koning, uit ’n buite-egtelike verhouding met ’n Europeër gebore. Anna was nie net mooi van aansien met fynbesnede gelaatstrekke nie, maar was ook geletterd en het met ’n vaste hand dokumente onderteken. Sy was met kaptein Oloff Bergh getroud en het op haar beurt die stammoeder van die Bergh-familie in Suid-Afrika geword.

Soos soveel ander inwoners van Cabo gedoen het, het Angela waarskynlik ook vendusies bygewoon, hoewel sy self min aangeskaf het te oordeel aan die min kere wat haar naam in die vendurolle voorkom. Op 15 Maart 1719 koop sy as Maij Ansla “1 zadel met 1 kruithoorn” vir 1 riksdaalder op die vendusie van wyle die vermoënde Engela Breda (MOOC10/2.19). Haar naam verskyn weer in haar oorlede seun Michiel Basson se vendurol gedateer 21 November 1719, aangesien die goedere “ten huijse van Ansla van Bengalen zijn verkogt”. Al wat sy toe gekoop het, was “1 mantje met poppe goet” teen 4:5 riksdaalders – dalk om iets daarvan vir die kleinkinders te maak? (MOOC10/2.17)

Ansla van Bengalen se boedelinventaris is gedateer 18 Julie 1720 (MOOC8/4.15). Ek het probeer bepaal hoe oud sy ten tyde van haar dood kon wees. Veronderstel dat sy 15 was in 1655, dan was sy 80 in 1720, wat werklik ’n hoë en soos ons sê ’n geseënde ouderdom vir daardie tyd was.

Die erfgename tot hierdie boedel behorende was die volgende:

“Anna de Koning, huisvrouw van den edle capitijn Olof Bergh

Catarina van der Sanden getrouwe met Gijsbert la Febre

Arnoldus Maasdorp

Jan van As, Matthijs van As, Willem van As – kinderen van Jacobus van As

Arnoldus Basson, Matthijs Basson – kinderen van Willem Basson

Arnoldus Basson, Michiel Basson, Jan Basson – kinderen van Michiel Basson”

[Sowel Anna de Koning as Jacobus van As was voorkinders van Angela van Bengalen.]

Angela het volgens haar inventaris ’n “thuijn” in die Tafelvalleij besit. Die volgende vertrekke word in die dokument genoem: ’n kamertjie aan die regterhand waar o.a. gelys word “1 paar silvere gespen toebehorende Arnoldus Willemse Basson”, haar oorlede man, “1 schilderij van Willem Basson”, haar oorlede seun. Dan was daar nog “5 hemden, 1 lakens, 7 kussen slopen by juff:r Bergh” (Anna de Koning). Die volgende vertrekke of plekke is ook gelys, naamlik die “combuis, voorhuijs, solder, afdakje, thuijnhuis” (met tuin- en ander gereedskap), “kelder” en “bottelary”. Volgens die inventaris het sy ook 5 slawe, 39 stuks bokke en ’n buiteplaas genaamd Hondswyk besit. Die slawe in Cabo was Jan Swart van Mallebaar, Louis van de Kust, Augustus van Bengalen, Martha met haar kind en Susanna met haar kind.

Op 23 Augustus word Ansla van Bengalen se besittings in die Tafelvallei verkoop. Die Bassons het niks gekoop nie, maar Oloff Bergh het wel ’n paar items gekoop, o.a. “1 vrouw zadel” “1 silver snuifsdoos weegt 2 loot”, “1 bett met een peuluw”, 2 goue ringe elk met ’n steentjie, “1 kist met cooper beslag” en “1 jonge genaamt Jan Swart van Malle Baaren”. Die twee slavinne is ook verkoop: “1 meijd met een kindt genaamt Marta” aan Hendrik Ewersdeijk (die name het hier ’n bietjie verkeerd geloop), en “1 meijd Sussanna met haer kind” aan m:r Richter. (MOOC10/2.13). By dieselfde vendusie is “een meijd genaamt Petronella van de Caab met haer kind” teen 141 riksdaalders aan Tomas Verrijn verkoop vir die rekening van die erfgename van wyle Michiel Basson. (MOOC10/2.17 1/2)

Die vendurol van 14 September 1720 bevat die verkoopte goedere op Angela se plaas genaamd Hondswijk. Dit is ook heeltemal ander persone wat na die veiling gekom en goed gekoop het, omdat die plaas op die platteland geleë was. Vanne soos Viljoen, Roux, Marais, Lombart, De Plaisij, Zeenekal, Van Wijk, Meijboom, Roos, Prinslo, Pinar en De Venter kom voor – geen Basson of Bergh nie. Daar was slegs 3 slawe op die plaas, naamlik Pieter, Trompetter en Claas, al drie van Madagaskar wat deur onderskeidelik Hendrik Mholl, Wouter de Vos en Pieter Willemsse van Heerden gekoop is.

Source: http://www.taaloord.co.za/geskiedenis.htm#Grepe%20uit%20die%20geski...

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"Toe Van Riebeeck se kleindogter, Johanna Maria, die Kaap in 1710 besoek, skryf sy in ’n brief van
“Ansiela”, die vrou wat haar vader en sy broers en susters (d.w.s. die Van Riebeeck-kinders) opgepas het. Sy
skryf verder dat Ansiela later met ’n Hollander getroud is en dat haar dogter die vrou van kaptein “B.” was. Dit is inderdaad so dat “Maai” Ansiela, ná haar vrystelling met Arnoldus Basson getroud is en die stammoeder van die Basson-familie in Suid-Afrika geword het. (Maai is blykbaar afgelei uit moei ‘tante’ [1e keer gedokumenteer 1201-1250] wat eintlik die vleinaam is vir moeder. WNT). Uittreksel uit http://www.jessehaye.com/Haye%20Family%20Tree/Descendants%20of%20%2...

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c1644 birthdate very roughly extrapolated from 1669 marriage date data from MH [Sharon Feb 2015]

Not sure about whether her husband's surname would have been recorded - but showing it (at least for the moment) to distinguish her from other 'van Bengales' in case we can use it to prompt Smart Matches [Sharon Feb 2015]

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"The benches were at Krotoa Place, the small square at the intersection of Castle Street and St George’s Mall." [9] How many people are aware that this very site adjoins the original grant of land given to the freed private slave, Angela / Engela (Maaij Ansela) van Bengale aka Moeder Jagt, who later married the free-burgher Arnoldus Willemsz Basson (from Wesel in the Duchy of Cleves)? [9] She has the distinction of being the 4th slave to be formally freed at the Cape of Good Hope, the 1st slave woman to be freed without being legally bound to a man & the 1st woman to be granted land in her own right ... [9] ... the erf was granted (25 February 1667) & later transferred (1718) by Moeder Jagt to the husband, Gijsbert le Febre (1690-1743/4) from Overchie, of her granddaughter Catharina van der Sande (born 1700) ... being the maternal grandparents of the Leiden University-educated opperhoofd Gijsbert Hemmij (1746-1798) who died at Kakegawa in Shizuoka, Japan ... [9]

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Basson-4

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https://www.stamouers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article...

Arnoldus Willemsz BASSON, was baptised 31 March 1647 at the Willibrordkirche and he died 1698. His father was Willem Baeson who was married on 9 May 1634 to Elsken Boespinck. He was already in 1665 at the Cape as a burgher. He had the nickname "Jagt" Arnoldus got married, 1669 to the previous slave ANGELA (Ansela) VAN BENGALE (also known as Maaij Ansela). She died c1720, (according to Richard Ball) refer to her Boedelrekening MOOC 13/1/2, 1. Jan van Riebeeck bought Angela in 1655 from Pierre Kemp. Van Riebeeck in turn sold Angela on his departure from the Cape in 1662 to Fiscal Abraham Gabbema. On the 13th April 1666 Gabbema signed a document which would lead to Angela"s freedom six months late, after serving Thomas Christoffel Mullerr. She was the third person to be freed from slavery at the Cape. Angela was baptised 29 April 1668. Angela tried to save a Hottentot woman, Sara, who committed suicide by hanging, unfortunately she was already dead (Familia, XVI, p 23). Angela received two properties as titles according to Cairns p. 86. Angela had a number of VOORKINDERS, Basson was not their father: Anna de Koning X Oloef Bergh Jacobus van As (Their father was most likely Jan van Assen) Johannes van As Pieter = 3 Jun 1668 (We do not know who his father was, he died young) CHILDREN OF Arnoldus Willemsz BASSON and ANGELA (Ansela) VAN BENGALE: 1. Willem baptised Aug 1670, died 30 Jan 1713, X 18 March 1691 Helena CLEMENTS/MICHIELS 2. Gerrit, X Johanna Rynick 3. Johannes (He died before his mother) X Zacharia Visser 4. Elsie she died young 5. Michiel = 26 Jun 1679 X Maria Daaldons 6. Elsie = 29 Jun 1681 X Reynier van der Sande 7. Maria = 16 May 1683, X C Maasdorp Arnoldus Basson obtained the title of the farm Nuwedorp in Groot Drakenstein with Jacobus van As on 20 December 1689. He died in 1689. Angela purchased the 22 year old slave Pieter van Malabar in 1698. She also bought the slave Arend van Bengale in 1700. When she died she owned the farm Hondswyk in Drakenstein.

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South African Slave: 4 December 1656 - Angela van Bengale was the slave of Pieter Kemp in Batavia, Java, Indonesia. Arrived at the Cape aboard the Amersfoort on 21 February 1657, where Kemp sold her to Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck 1657/8.

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GEDCOM Note

"In a list of married persons for 1666 and 1667 Angela and her three children's names appear. She, her husband and children were sold in 1659 by a passenger on one of the returning ships to Jan van Riebeeck. He sold her and her children to Abraham Gabbema three years later. Gabbema set Angela and her children free on 13 April 1666. On 15 Dec 1669 she was married to the Free Burger Arnoldus Willemsz Basson and was taken up in the communiry of free persons ("vryliedengemeenskap").

Source G C de Wet. 1981. "Die Vryliede en vryswartes in die Kaapse Nedersetting 1657 - 1707. Cape Town: Historiese Publikasievereniging. p. 205. Quoted by Adriaan Swanepoel from the Technikon Pretoria. in a e-mail message to J A emmelink 22 Apr 1996.

http://www.jessehaye.com/angela_van_bengale.htm

http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6260.htm
Names in the record, in publications, etc. Between 15 December 1669 and 31 August 1670, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angila van Bengale.10,11
9 February 1673, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angela van Bengalen.
21 June 1679, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angiela van Bengale.
16 May 1683, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angila van Bengalen.
1692, the name of Angela was written in the record as Maaij Ansela van Bengale.12
28 October 1703, the name of Angela was written in the record as Anselaar van Bangale.13
25 November 1703, the name of Angela was written in the record as Angela Basson.14
15 June 1710, the name of Angela was written in the record as Engela van Bengalen.15

Cape Muster Roll 1688 Arnoldus Willemsz en Angela van Bengale - thanks dear Marie! WB

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