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To pool our thoughts, DNA results & research, & try and figure out which descent lines come from Catharina van Malabar, & by which man.
Catharina van Malabar Timeline
c1637
- b c.1637 said to be from Batavia/ the Malabar Coast /Bengal /the Coromandel Coast.
1662
- Came to SA from Batavia 2 April 1662 as the personal slave of Maria de Bucquoij
1665
- 6 September 1665 Catharina van Malabar was owned by the VOC
1666
- Possibly sold by Maria de Bucquoij, to Commandeur Cornelis van Quaelbergen on 30 September 1666
1667
- Adriaantje Gabrielsz b. b 13 Nov 1667 (bap 13 November 1667) een slaevinne kint van den E.H.Comman: Quaelbergen, wiert genaemt Adriaentje de moeder Catharyn tot getuyge stont in persoon van de Juffr Quaelbergen haer slaevinne. The FFYP suggests Corporael Gabriel Joosten b. c 1640 - a witness at the baptism of Adriaantje's possible brother, Louwijs in 1663 - as a possible father. She is described as Cornelis Claasz' stepdaughter when she marries: 1683, eodem dito [den 4. Julij], Pieter Gerrits zoo, Jonghman, vryburgh en Aedriantie stiefdogter van Kees de boer." Adriaentje has an illegitimate child by Hendrik Speldenberg in 1679. [Predicted mtDNA U2c1]
1668
- Possibly sold by Commandeur Cornelis van Quaelbergen, to Jacob van Borghorst after 18 June 1668
1669
- 9 April 1669 sold by Jacob van Borghorst to Rijckloff van Goens; paid by Luitenant Johannes Coon who also may have purchased the pregnant Anna van Bengale.
1673
- Claes Cornelisz van de Caep12 b. b 6 Feb 1673
- bap. 29 Oct 1673 aged about 36
1674
- Cornelia Cornelisse b. b 18 Nov 1674. Cornelia drives her husband Abraham Bastiaansz: Pyl to take his own life by slitting his throat. [Predicted mtDNA N21]
1675
- Van Goens returns to Ceylon.
- Emancipated around this time
1676
- x 1676 Cornelis Claasz b. c 1650
- Aaltie Cornelisz b. b 15 Mar 1676. Aeltje, after her husband Heinrich Jansen Heyder is convicted for assaulting a ‘Hottentot’ named Lucifer, seeks succour as concubine to the soon-to-be murdered Jacobus van den Berg which murder takes place in the house of her sister Catharina, when he tries to stop a 14 yr old being molested.
1678
- Maria Cornelisz b. b 27 Oct 1678. Maria dumps her Frisian husband Gerrit Willemse, permitting her socially misfit free-black paramour Isaac Pietersz: van de Caab to remove her undesirable spouse by dragging him by the hair out of his own home to become a vagabond ... [Predicted mtDNA N21]
1679
- Barent Cornelisz b. b 29 Sep 1679
1681
- Hendrik Claasen b. b 26 Dec 1681
1684
- Catharina Cornelisz b. b 5 Nov 1684, d. bt 1718 - 1719 [Predicted mtDNA U2c1]
1688
- Cornelis Claasz possiby dies, but Ball points out that there is an entry On 26th October 1708, in a letter to the person in charge at Robben Island, where 'the convict Kees de Boer', is mentioned.
- xx 1688 Andries Voormeester
1699
- Voormeester and his wife sentenced to four months' hard labour for selling stolen goods
*Catharina van Malabar SM/PROG Predicted Haplogroup U2c1 or N21
mtDNA Descendants on Geni:
- Arriantjie Gabrielsz Van Cathrijn [U2c1]
- Fanie van Heerden [confirmed by genetic test as U2c1]
- Beth Hawkins [confirmed by genetic test as U2c1]
- Cecilia Strauss [confirmed by genetic test as U2c1]
- Cornelia Pyl [N21]
- Maria Catrina Botha
- Jaco Botes [confirmed N21 by genetic test]
- Charlette Hoppe [confirmed N21 by genetic test]
- Glynis Van der Watt [confirmed N21 by genetic test]
- Rebekka Meyer [confirmed N21 by genetic test]
- Maria Catrina Botha
- Maria Cornelisz [U2c1]
- Reginald Horne [confirmed by genetic test as U2c1]
- Catharina Cornelisz [U2c1]
- Shirley Bihl Paladin [confirmed by genetic test as U2c1]