Maria van Bengale (b.1638)

1638 – 21 Mei 1665

Name

Given: Maria
Surname: van Bengale

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.

Naaste familie

Children: Marij Zacharias

'n Lewe in die rekord

1638 gebore Born
21 Mei 1665 oorlede Died

Stories

mentioned Ses-en-veertig dinge
mentioned Die Jouberts en Duminys van die wynland

Wat ons nie weet nie

Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.
Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.

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

Navorsingsnotas

[TREE] Added 6 Aug 2026. Named on [S021] as one of the enslaved or free-black people at the head of this family, and held no row in this model until now — the site asserted the descent on a published page while the model could not answer a single question about the person. Dates as the private tree gives them; NO PLACE IMPORTED, per 5. No FamilySearch id yet: see PEOPLE-WITHOUT-FS-ID.md and LEAD-0112. S021 is itself marked provisional — this descent rests on a family tree and not yet on the Cape records — and creating the row does not change that. [TO VERIFY] S021's generation 13. The exact death date matches the tree row exactly.

[SRC-301, 6 Aug 2026] THE DESCENT FROM HER TO THIS FAMILY IS DISPROVEN. It ran through Marij ZachariasH to Jan Nys, and Jan Nys was a German from Duesseldorf who came out as a VOC soldier and married at Mauritius in 1694. He is not her grandson. She remains in the model and on [S021] with the correction stated, because a page that quietly drops a person it named for days is worse than one that says it was wrong. What is NOT in doubt: she existed, her dates are the sharpest of the ten, and she was an enslaved woman at the Cape. What is now known is that this family does not descend from her.

[9 Aug 2026] surname set to VAN BENGALE. The field was empty, so anything deriving a surname from the display name took the bracket, '(b.1638)'. Van Bengale is the toponymic byname the Cape records give her and it is the only surname she has.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

FamilySearch ids for the enslaved and free-black ancestors, and for Anthony van de Kaap prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0112
Eleven people at the head of this family — the ten of S021 plus Catharina van PalliacattaM — and the one enslaved man in the family's own estate papers carry no FamilySearch id between them. Which of them have profiles, and what are the ids?

Wat dit sou uitmaak An id per person, or a recorded finding that no profile exists.
Import the nine Cape descent chains - they are Frans's own ancestry, generation 9 to 13 prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0116
Eight of S021's ten have no recorded child in this model, so the site names a descent it cannot walk. The private tree holds every chain. Importing them means about fifty new person rows across the de Wet, Mocke, Duminy, Snyman, van Dyk, Janse van Vuuren, Smuts and du Preez lines. Is that in scope?

Wat dit sou uitmaak Frans deciding. A middle course exists: import only the chains that reach families the site actually writes about, and leave the rest as a stated gap on the page.
Who was Jan Nijs's mother? Twenty-one years say Jacob had two wives prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0118
Where does the Maria van BengaleH (b.1638) descent actually run? The tree gives Marij ZachariasH born 1660, married December 1672, with a son born about 1671. Which date is wrong, or is a generation missing between them?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A baptism naming Jan de Nys's mother, or the 1672 marriage entry itself. Failing those, any record naming Jacob Jansz de Nijs's wife before 1692 - if she is not Marij ZachariasH, this descent is not this family's.
Jan Nys of Duesseldorf has the wrong parents on FamilySearch, both of them. Who were they? prioriteit 3 · LEAD-0119
Jan Nys came from Duesseldorf as a VOC soldier, so neither Jacob Jansz de Nijs of Amsterdam (LJR9-74B) nor Marij ZachariasH (LJR9-7H8) is his parent. Who were his parents, and what is the Marij ZachariasH row actually?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A marriage entry for Jacob de Nijs naming Janna Marij Bousijn, which would place her in Amsterdam and leave any Cape Marij ZachariasH as a separate woman.