Mochamat (Dayan) Sultania (1713)

Born 1713 in Dutch Cape Colony

Husband of Maria (Jordaan) Sultania — married 3 Jul 1740 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Birth

Date: 1713 ^[1]

Marriage

Groom: David Sultania ^[2]

Bride: Maria Jordaan ^[2]

Event Date: 3 July 1740 ^[2]

Event Place: de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony ^[2]

3 July 1740 ^[3]

The formerly Muslim royal prince of Tambora Mochamat Dayan - who converts (1739) to Christianity assuming the name David Sultania - marries Cape-born Marie (Maria) Jourdan [Jordaan] …

The groom is the son of Cape-exiled Raja of Tambora - Albubasi Sultan aka Sultan Nissa Nudum Abdul Rassa / Nissa Nidum, Abdula Radja - & maternal grandson of Cape-exiled "Macassarisse Priester" Schjegh Joseph - Shaikh Yusup (1626-1699) - whose sister Sitina Asia - baptised Maria Dorothea Sultania - was married to Christiaan Carel van den Bos (from Den Haag) - executed for raping 10-year-old Johanna Hoog (baptised 8 July 1725), minor illegitimate child of Widow Pelzer, Elisabeth van den Berg by Claas (de) Hoog which rape took place in the house belonging to the deaconij & inhabited by the groom's mother, the impoverished ranee of Tambora - Sitina Sara Marouff aka Care Sals (born 1679), daughter of Shaikh Yusup ...

The bride is daughter to French Protestant refugee Pierre Jourdan (from Belle Etoile [Luberon, Provence, France]) & Johanna Adriana Junius & formerly widow of Cape-born mulatto David Pretorius (illegitimate son of heelslag Cape-born freed slave Maria Hansen & grandson of Jajenne / Gegeima aka Lobbetje van Guinea), formerly married to freed slave Constantia van Bengale (aka Constantia van Malabar / Coromandel), widow of Cape-born, free-black fisherman Joost Ventura (illegitimate son of freed slave woman belonging to Governor Joan Bax van Herentals, Helena van Malabar by Commander (later Governor) Simon van der Stel’s chef, the freed slave Ventura van Ceylon)

The bride's mother is banished from the Cape (September 1706) for committing adultery sailing on the "Vryburg" to Batavia ... "a certain woman, Johanna Junius, married to Pieter Jordaan, but found publicly cohabiting with another, & being of a very bad life & conduct, has, according to the sentence of the Court, been divorced by her husband at his request & condemned to be imprisoned for 5 years in the House of Correction" ...

The wedded couple soon relocate with their family (1743) to Batavia ...

[Mansell Upham] ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: David Sultania Seen and added by Philip van der Walt 4 Jul, 2015,
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Parish registers, Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Cape Town (Cape Province), 1695-1976 Marriages 1757-1803, 1737-1818 Marriages 1757-1803 page 218.Seen and entered Febr 11, 2019 by Susanna de Bruyn
3. ↑ Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Maria Jourdan and page: Pierre Jourdan Seen and added by Philip van der Walt 3 Jul, 2015,
4. ↑ Source: First Fifity Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: Jul 3 at 1:35 pm Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Jul 3, 2015.