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Person PER-000307

Anthony van de Kaap

No dates recorded

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: The estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude is inventoried (1802-04-27).

Names

Baptismal name
Anthony
Given
Anthony
Surname
van de Kaap

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

A life in the record

  1. 27 April 1802 event The estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude is inventoried
    [SRC-093] MOOC8/24.27. Taken at the place of the son Pieter Cornelis, where the widow was living. The old couple owned no farm: 140 sheep, Rd:s 300 cash, one enslaved man named ANTHONY VAN DE KAAP, and Rd:s 1382:5 out on loan to their own eight surviving children. Their son OCKERT - heir no. 3, the

Stories

What we don't know

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

  1. MOOC8/24.27 - Inventory of the estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude and his widow Dina Carolina Brits, taken 27 April 1802 Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)MOOC8/24.27, {18020427}

Research notes

[SRC-093] AN ENSLAVED MAN, listed in the 1802 estate of Jacobus Oosthuysen d'oude between the plough and the sheep: "een oude slaave jonge, gen:d Anthony van de KaapH". Recorded here as a person, not an inventory line, because he was one. "Van de Kaap" means Cape-born rather than imported, so he was born into slavery in this colony; "oude" means he was old in 1802, so probably born in the 1740s or earlier. NO AGE, NO VALUE AND NO RELATIONSHIP ARE RECORDED - that is the whole of what the archive kept. His name survives only because an estate had to be counted.

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Open questions