Catharina van Malabar
omstreeks 1637 – 1707 · van Malabar line
Naam
- Voorname
- Catharina
- Van
- van Malabar
Die formele doopnaam en die naam waarop iemand werklik geroep is, word albei gehou, en nie een word van die ander afgelei nie. Spelling wat van rekord tot rekord verskil, is self getuienis en nie geraas nie.
Drie geslagte om hierdie mens
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Klik op enige naam, dan word dieselfde drie geslagte om daardie mens getrek. Daar is nie 'n stampaar hier nie, en ook nie 'n bopunt aan die boom nie: dit wys net die familie wat die naaste aan die mens staan oor wie jy lees, en 'n oop plek is 'n gaping in die rekord eerder as 'n uitspraak oor iemand.
Naaste familie
'n Lewe in die rekord
- omstreeks 1637 gebore Born
- 1707 oorlede Died
Stories
- mentioned 'n Vrou se ses-en-veertig besittings
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
A DIRECT ANCESTOR OF OCKERT ALMERO OOSTHUIZEN, and so of the whole Karoo line this project follows. The descent runs Catharina van MalabarH -> her daughter Cornelia Cornelisse ClaaszH -> Catharina Bastijaans PylM (PER-000768, already held here) -> Dina Carolina Brits -> Ockert Almero OosthuizenL (PER-000001). The model has held the third and fourth links since July 2026 and simply stopped one generation short of her. She was named in the Cape manner for enslaved and free-black people, by the coast she was taken from rather than by a family name. She is recorded with several partners over her life - Cornelis Claasen, Gabriel Joosten, Andries Voormeester - which is itself a fact about how little control she had over her own household. NO PLACE IS ASSERTED HERE. The private tree gives a birthplace, but this project treats the tree's place strings as hostile and they are least reliable exactly where they matter most - on people carried across an ocean. The toponym in the NAME is what the Cape record itself used and is recorded as written. VERIFICATION ROUTE: the First Fifty Years project, which transcribes the Cape records of 1652 onward and documents enslaved and free-black people rather than only settlers. Nothing here should be repeated as established until it is checked against a transcribed record. [TREE] [TO VERIFY]
[FS G6HX-JLV, 6 Aug 2026] THE FIRST OF S021'S TEN TO CARRY A FAMILYSEARCH ID. From the family views Frans sent, which show THREE unions and match this project's own table exactly: Gabriel Joosten Cornet (GJTC-XHT), a common-law marriage about 1662 at Cape Town, three children - Louwijs van de Caep (GG9M-FLW, 1663), Adriaantje Gabrielsz (LY5M-9YK, 1664-1720) and ANTHONIJ VAN DE CAEP (LKG1-XDC, 1665); then Cornelis Claesz 'Kees de Boer' (GKRJ-FF1, 1630-1688), married 15 March 1676, seven children; then Andries Voormeester (G6HX-LJF, 1640-1713), married 31 July 1688. DATES DISAGREE AND BOTH ARE KEPT: this model has 1637~-1707, FamilySearch has 1637-1703. [TO VERIFY] WARNING AGAINST A CONFLATION THAT WILL BE TEMPTING: her son ANTHONIJ VAN DE CAEP, baptised 1665, IS NOT the Anthony van de KaapM (PER-000307) listed as an enslaved man in the 1802 inventory [SRC-093]. Same name form, same family orbit, one hundred and thirty-seven years apart. 'Van de Kaap' means born here, into it, and it was written on many people.
[SRC-296] THE MARRIAGE ENTRY ITSELF, 15 March 1676, read on the page: 'Cornelis Claasz van [illegible], vrijborger, en Catarina van Malbaar.' The manumission is NOT on it - LEAD-0117.
[22 Sep 2026, SRC-664] FIRST FIFTY YEARS g6/p6907.htm (Wayback snapshot 20250227095328): brought from Batavia on the Prinses Royael, arrived 15 March 1662; baptised at the Cape 29 October 1673, said to be about 36; free by March 1676 (no deed found, inferred); married Cornelis Claasz van Utrecht 15 March 1676 and Andries Voormeester 31 July 1688; seven Claasz children, among them Cornelia Cornelisse, b. 18 Nov 1674; last seen as a baptism witness at Stellenbosch, 16 January 1707. Records name her origin variously as Batavia, Malabar, Bengal or Coromandel, so the toponym is the record's label, not a proven birthplace. [FFY; originals it cites to pull]
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
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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.
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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.
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The manumission of Catharina van Malabar - the record that decides what Cornelia was born into
prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0117
When exactly was Catharina van MalabarH freed, and is there a manumission act? Her daughter Cornelia was baptised 18 November 1674 and she married a vrijburger on 15 March 1676. If the manumission falls between those dates, Cornelia was born owned.
Wat dit sou uitmaak The manumission act, or a resolution naming her. Failing that, any record of her status between November 1674 and March 1676.
Elders
FamilySearch-profiel G6HX-JLV