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About Christijn Pietersz van de Caep
Delia Robertson, compiler of "First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records (FFY), has recently (2022) reviewed available material relating to this profile and states "I am now of the view that there were two Christine/Christijn Pietersz: van de Caep living more-or-less contemporaneously.
The individual more frequently recorded as Christijn /Christyn was a company owned slave who spent a large part, if not all her life in the Slave Lodge. (this profile)
The other was more frequently referred to as Christina, and she was privately-owned by Jan Stevensz Botma de Jonge and Christina de Brùyn and subsequently, in 1723, manumitted with her son Willem Stolts by the latter.
The reasons I have come to this conclusion are the following:
1. Each woman had a son named Willem. Christina's son was baptised in 1694 and became known as Willem Stolts (var). He died in 1750.Christijn's son was baptised in 1710. He is first enumerated in the Slave Lodge census of 1714, again in 1727 and dies in 1753 - still a company owned slave resident in the Slave Lodge.
2. Willem Stolts married Anna van Beulen who was the grandaughter of Christijn Pietersz, the company-owned slave. If the two, Christina and Christijn, were the same individual, Willem would have married his niece - which is possible but unlikely. "
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Christijn Pietersz van de Caep was born c.1664-1673 in bondage to the VOC company at the Cape.
Christijn Pietersz is identified as mother of Anna van der Heyde, Arnoldus Koevoet, Johannes Morgh, Hendrik, Andries, Willem and Pieter in a newly discovered collection of personal letters from the deceased estate of Arnoldus Koevoet.
Christijn's son Arnoldus Koevoet was described as "heelslag" - which indicates that Christijn also most likely had no European ancestry.
Maaij Claesje van Angola was suggested as a possible mother candidate for Christijn Pietersz by Mansell Upham in his paper Uprooted Lives.
Christijn's predicted mtDNA Haplogroup L2c however excludes Maaij Claesje van Angola as her biological mother. This is because Claesje is predicted to have belonged to Haplogroup L4b2b, as indicated through a line of descent from her daughter Jannetje van Wyk (If both were daughters of Claesje, their descendant's mtDNA should match).
If the line of descent indicating that Christijn Pietersz belonged to mtDNA Haplogroup L2c is correct, this suggests that Christijn's mother was most likely one of the West/Central African slaves who arrived at the Cape aboard the "Hasselt" or Amersfoort" in 1658. L2c is found at it's highest frequency in West Africa. see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182259/
Christijn Pietersz died on 25 December 1719 at the Slave Lodge, Cape Town.
Citations:
- Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World,Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani Routledge, 2015. https://books.google.co.za/books?id=GIZECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT89&lpg=PT89&dq
- Cape Town Between East and West: social identities in a Dutch colonial town, Nigel Worden, 2012. https://books.google.co.za/books?id=nMYYn91ZR-kC&pg=PA153&source=gb...
- Uprooted Lives: Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), Mansell G.Upham, Pg 71. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/RemarkableWriting/UL20ExtremestEnd.pdf
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 8 2019, 14:41:32 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 8 2019, 14:43:09 UTC
Cape Town
Between East and West
Edited by Nigel Worden
Pages 158
Christijn Pietersz died on Christmas day 1719 at the age of 44
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Christijn Pietersz van de Caep's Timeline
| 1664 |
1664
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Cape of Good Hope
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| 1694 |
1694
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Cape Town, Cape, South Africa
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| 1697 |
March 3, 1697
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Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1699 |
1699
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Cape Province, Republic of South Africa
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| 1701 |
September 25, 1701
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Cape TOwn
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| 1703 |
November 4, 1703
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Cape Town
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| 1706 |
April 11, 1706
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Cape Town, Cape Town, WC, South Africa
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| 1710 |
August 10, 1710
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Stellenbosch
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| 1714 |
May 27, 1714
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Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1719 |
December 25, 1719
Age 55
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Slave Lodge, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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