MOOC8/4.15 and 4.16: the estate of Ansla van Bengalen, widow of Arnoldus Willemsse Basson, 18 July and 11 September 1720
estate inventory · an original record · consulted 2026-09-30
- Type
- estate inventory
- Repository
- Cape Town Archives Repository, MOOC8 series (Inventories of the Orphan Chamber). Read in the TANAP/GLOBALISE published transcription held locally as SRC-128.
- Reference
- MOOC8/4.15, 18 July 1720; MOOC8/4.16, 11 September 1720. A related entry is MOOC8/4.25, the estate of her son Michiel Basson, 3 March 1719, taken 'ten huise van desselfs moeder Ansla van Bengalen'.
- Consulted
- 2026-09-30
The citation as it was given
THE ESTATE OF PER-001434, ANGELA VAN BENGALE, whom 10 names among the enslaved and colonial Cape matriarchs central to this ancestry. This project held her as an ancestor and did not hold her estate. She is entered as 'Ansla van Bengalen wed:e Arnoldus Willemsse Basson'. THE HEIRS, as written: Anna de Koning, wife of the captain Olof Bergh; Catarina van der Sanden, married to Gijsbert la Febre; Arnoldus Maasdorp; JAN, MATTHIJS and WILLEM VAN AS, children of JACOBUS VAN AS; Arnoldus and Matthijs Basson, children of Willem Basson; and Arnoldus, Michiel and Jan Basson, children of Michiel Basson. Three of her own children had died before her and their children inherit in their place. *** HER GROUND, AND IT IS NOT WITTENBERG. *** The two sheets together name 'een buijtenplaats genaamt HONDSWYK' and '1 thuijn gelegen in dese Tafelvalleij'. The second inventory is headed 'op de plaats gen:t Hondswyk' and counts the stock there: 63 cattle and 300 sheep and lambs, two wagons, a plough, two distilling kettles and nine leaguers. Her son Michiel Basson's estate of 1719 names a third property, '1 plaats gen:t KEESENBOSCH gelegen in 't Swarte Land'. A Nelson's Creek estate history (SRC-711) makes her the first holder of WITTENBERG at Paarl. NEITHER SHEET MENTIONS A WITTENBERG, and these list her properties. That does not prove she never held one - a property can be transferred before death - but her own estate is the best evidence there is and it names Hondswyk. See LEAD-0388. AND SHE OWNED PEOPLE. The inventory lists '1 slavin gen:t Susanna met haer kind' among her goods. A woman sold at the Cape as a child, freed in 1666, died holding another woman and that woman's child as property. It is recorded here because it is what the document says. [TO VERIFY] on the citation per 5a-ii.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
Nothing in the model cites this source yet.