Domingo van Bengale, SV/PROG

Domingo van Bengale (c 1640-) bap 30 June 1686
x 18 May 1691, Maria van Bengale

• Anna Maria Dominicus (c 1683-)

1658 exiled convict mardijcker on board the Prinses Royael.
Became VOC soldier in the Cape garrison, then a burgher & fisherman.
1698 owned Cupido van Negapatnam & Pieter van Malabar

The first slaves at the Cape and the challenges faced
Of the first twelve slaves in the Cape up to 1657, four were children under the age of 12, and of the adults, six were from India. These were

1. Maria of Bengal (1655),
2. Catharina of Bengal (1656),
3. Catharina of Paliacatte (1657), A
4. Angela of Bengal (1657),
5. Domingo of Bengal (1657)
6. and another Maria of Bengal (1658).
7. Another slave, the very first slave, Abraham, was from Batavia (Jakarta) and had arrived in the Cape as a stowaway. https://camissapeople.wordpress.com/profiles/

The Bengali’s thus were the majority group.
Old colonial documents show that Domingo was either from Bengal [modern day Bangladesh] or of Begali descent and a Free Black [Vryswarte] by 1693 if not already freeborn. May have died around 1712.

National Archives of South Africa (NASA) Database: Cape Town Archives Repository:

DEPOT KAB SOURCE CJ TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 2870 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 63 PART 1 DESCRIPTION DOMINGO, VAN BENGALE. VRYSWARTE. KONTRAKTE. STARTING 16930000 ENDING 16930000

DEPOT KAB SOURCE CJ TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 2598 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 41 PART 1 DESCRIPTION DOMINGO, VAN BENGALE. TESTAMENT. STARTING 17120000 ENDING 17120000

• https://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6283.htm