Catharina (van Malbaar) van Malabar (abt. 1637 - abt. 1709)

Born about 1637 in Coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Indian peninsula

Wife of Cornelis (Claasz) Claasen — married 15 Mar 1676 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

Wife of Andries Voormeester — married 31 Jul 1688 in Stellenbosch, de Caep de Goede Hoop

Descendants

Died about 1709 at about age 72 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Name

Catharina ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} (Catrijn ^[7][8][4] / Katrijn ^[9][4]) van Malabar ^{[1][2][9][3][7][8][4][6]} / van Bengale ^[7] / Cornelisse ^[9] / Gabriels ^[7] / Claasen ^[8]

• Between 29 October 1673 and 15 March 1676, the name of Catharina van Malabar was written in the record as Catharina van Malbaar. ^[10]
• 15 March 1676, the name of Catharina van Malabar was written in the record as Catharina van Malbaar. ^[10]
• 27 October 1678, the name of Catharina van Malabar was written in the record as Catrina Mallebaar. ^[10]
• 29 September 1679, the name of Catharina van Malabar was written in the record as Catharina Malbaar. ^[10]
• 26 December 1681, the name of Catharina van Malabar was written in the record as Catrina van de Kust [coast] Comandell. ^[10]
• Catharina van Malabar was also known as Catharina NN. ^[10]
• 31 July 1688, the name of Catharina van Malabar was written in the record as Catarina van de Cust Coromandel. ^[10]
• Between 6 Feb 1673 and 3 Aug 1704 the name of Catherina van Malabar was written in the record as Catryn van Bengale. ^[10]

Birth

Date: Catharina was born about 1637 ^{[10][7][3][6]} / between 1637 and 1655 / between 1641 and 1655 ^[2] / 1641 ^[10] / between 1645 and 1649 ^[4] / c1650. ^[9] / 1655. ^[1]

Place: Malabar ^[2][7][6], Kerala ^[2], India ^[2][7][4][6]

Baptism

Date: Oct 29, 1673 ^[9] - She was baptised as an adult on 29 October 1673 at the Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Cape Town ^[7]:

dito (29 dito (October))

Twee bejaarde Vrouwe-Personen, waer

van d'een genaamt wierd Catharina van

Malbaar out 36 jaren: d'ander

Elisabeth van Bengalen out omtrent

de 30 jaren ^[11]

Arrival

On 30 January 1662 the Angelier and Oijevaer departed Batavia enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where they docked on 2 April 1662. Among the pasengers on board the vessels were Zacharias Wagenaer, Maria aux Brebis and Maria de Bucquoij. Accompanying Wagenaer were his slaves Louis van Bengale, Annike van Bengale and Anthonij de Later van Japan. The widow Verburg (Maria de Bucquoij) was accompanied by her personal slave Catharina van Malabar. ^[3]

Marriages and Relationships

Date: Mar 15, 1676: 1st Marriage to Cornelis Claasz ^[12][13]

Date: 15 March 1676^[14]

Place: [Cape Town], [South Africa]^[14]

Groom: Cornelis Claasz^[14]

Bride: Catharina van Malbaar^[14]

1676....Den 15 dito (Maart) Cornelis Claasz van Uytrecht vrijborgher en Catharina van Malbaar. ^[14]

Cornelis Claasen aka Kees de Boer was from Utrecht ^[14] and arrived at the Cape before 1657. He was married at Stellenbosch in 1676 to Catharina van Malabar on Mar 15, 1676 at the Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Cape Town. Cornelis had earlier had a child with the slave Isabella van Angola in 1661. ^[10] Catharina had 7 children with Cornelis Claasen (Claasz) ca. 1650 - ca. 1688:

1. Adriaantje Gabrielsz - 13 Nov 1667: "Aedriantie stiefdogter van Kees de boer" found in her marriage record at Family Search
2. Claes Cornelisz van de Caep - 6 Feb 1673
3. Cornelia Cornelisse - 18 Nov 1674
4. Aaltie Cornelisz - 15 Mar 1676
5. Maria Cornelisz - 27 Oct 1678 ^[15]
6. Barent Cornelisz - 29 Sep 1679
7. Hendrik Claasen - 26 Dec 1681
8. Catharina Cornelisz - 5 Nov 1684, d. bt 1718 - 1719

Catharina van Malabaar had a child with Gabriel de Samboua of which Cornelis Claassen was the stepfather. This child was known as Adriana Gabrielse ^[16] van de Kaap (also known as Adriaentje Claassen).^[17] Arriaantje got baptised 13 November 1667 in Cape Town. Later Katrijn married Cornelis Claasen (Kees de Boer) and thus he was the stepfather of Arrianntje . This child was known as Adriaentje Cornelisz. Adriaantje Gabrielsz was born in bondage, before 13 November 1667, and was owned by Commandeur Cornelis van Quaelbergen of de Caep de Goede Hoop. ^[18] and was baptised in 1667. Catherine is named as a parent in the record of the baptism of Adriaentje NN on 13 November 1667: een slaevinne kint van den E.H.Comman: Quaelbergen, wiert genaemt Adriaentje de moeder Catharyn tot getuyge stont in persoon van de Juffr Quaelbergen haer slaevinne at the Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Cape Town.^[19]

2nd Marriage - she remarried as Catarina van de Cust Coromandel to Andries Voormeester on 31 July 1688 ^[7]

"ultimo July (den 25 Julij is crossed out) Andries Voormeester van Guedelborg vrijborger aen Stellenbos jongman met Catarina van de Cust Coromandel Wed. wijle den overleden vrijborger Cornelis Claasze" ^[20]

Unruly Family Affairs

Kees Claasz (de Boer) & his Indian ex-slave wife , the gedoopte swartinne Catrijn (Catharina van Malabar), are 2 of the more interesting personalities inhabiting the early colonial Cape settlement & 1st to inhabit the newly found colony at Stellenbosch. Notwithstanding their frequent brushes with the law, they appear to play an important community role at Moddergat which later becomes an important ‘Coloured’ farming settlement & mission station outside of Stellenbosch. Their descendants in the female line ramify dramatically in the colonial community becoming the founding mothers of various whole family clans: Bezuidenhout, Van Locherenberg, Bronkhorst, Gerrits, Pyl, Rigt, Willemse, Kemp & Franke. The family is seldom without controversy. Their surviving daughters all lead eventful lives:

• Adriaentje has an illegitimate child by one Hendrik Speldenberg.

• Cornelia drives her husband Abraham Bastiaansz: Pyl to take his own life by slitting his throat.

• Aeltje, after her husband Heinrich Jansen Heyder is convicted for assaulting a ‘Hottentot’ named Lucifer, seeks succour as concubine to the soon-to-be murdered Jacobus van den Berg which murder takes place in the house of her sister Catharina.

• Maria dumps her Frisian husband Gerrit Willemse permitting her socially misfit free-black paramour Isaac Pietersz: van de Caab to remove her undesirable spouse by dragging him by the hair out of his own home to become a vagabond ... ^[21] (For more information about this family click the following link: http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6906.htm [Mansell Upham] ^[21])

Death

Date: 1673 ^[7] / between 1684 and 1744 ^[1] / between 1706 and 1773 ^[4] / about 1709 - she was last listed on the Stellenbosch muster rolls with her husband in Dec 1708 and he appeared without her in Dec 1709 ^[22][23]

Place: Cape ^[1][7][4], [South Africa] ^[1][7][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-1 created through the import of JacobusStephanus(Oudtshoorn)GERICKE.ged on Apr 13, 2012 by Christo Cruywagen. Source:
   • Title: Ancestral File (R) Abbreviation: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 Repository: Family History Library Address: Address 1: 35 N West Temple Street Address 2: Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA City: Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-2 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-5 created by Pieter Meyer 23 April 2013.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-18 created by Wilhelm Venter through the import of Venter_2013_2015-01-12_2015-01-1402.ged on Jan 14, 2015. Source:
   • Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: Ancestry.com
5. ↑ WikiTree profile Van De Kaap-6 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-22 created by Johannes Jooste 25 August 2019.
7. ↑ ^{7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-6 created through the import of Vermaak Family Site - 05 May 2013.GED on May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak. Source:
   • Author: Otto DIEDERICKS Title: DIEDERICKS Family Text: MyHeritage.com family tree Page: Catharina (Catrijn) VAN MALABAR (VAN BENGALE)
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} WikiTree profiles Van Malabar-9 {Jun 27, 2013 - import of Olivier Family Tree.ged} and Van Malabar-10 {Jun 30, 2013 - import of 8vd2yc_0008474r52hf8nedwec1c2.ged} created by Amanda Calitz.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} WikiTree profile Van Malabar-4 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
10. ↑ ^{10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10} Source:
    • Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina van Malabar Seen and entered 18 Jan 2015 by Philip van der Walt.
11. ↑ Source:
    • The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/ : accessed 25 July 2016), [http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town-ngk-1665-to-1695/44-cape-town-baptisms-1673 Cape Town Baptisms 1665-1695, "Cape Town Baptisms 1673, p. 8", baptism entry for Catharina van Malbaar, 29 Oct 1673; Source: Cape Archives Verbatim Copies VC 603, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, baptisms 1665 to 1696. VC 603 is a photocopy made during the 1980s of the original, made for the Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a copy was donated to the South African Archives, a copy going to the Cape Town repository and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series). The original register is now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1 1/1. The transcription was originally made in 2006 by Richard Ball. Corrections were received from Delia Robertson and Alwyn Smit and Corney Keller had now completely revised and amended the original transcript (February 2012).Seen and entered by Philip van der Walt Jul 25, 2016.
12. ↑ Source:
    • Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/ Cornelis Claasz van Uytregt vrijborger en Catharina van Malbaar, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
13. ↑ Seen and added by Philip van der Walt 9 November 2013. Sources:
    • Delia Robertson "The First Fifity Years, Page: http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6907.htm Accessed 25 August 2019.
    • http://cape-slavery-heritage.iblog.co.za/2010/02/28/slaves-and-indigenes-in-my-family-tree/ ... /Indiese, slavin, b 1640, Malabar
    • NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1673NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: ao 1673
    • Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
    • Geni.com > Catharina Catrijn van Malabar
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5} Source:
    • The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions transcribed (Cape Town Marriages 1665-1695Cape Town Marriages 1676, page 81 ; accessed Aug 17, 2015). This transcription has been made from photographs of the Cape Archives Verbatim copies document VC 603 - Cape Town baptisms, memberships and marriages 1665-1695, which is a photocopy the original register, now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1-1/1. This photocopy was made for the Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a copy was donated to the South African Archives, a copy going to the Cape Town Repository (VC series) and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series). Seen and entered Aug 17, 2015 by Susanna de Bruyn.
15. ↑ Her 4th child, Maria van der Kaap, born in 1678 [...] whose grand-daughter Gertruyda Willemse married into the Saayman family.
16. ↑ The slave Gabriel de Samboua is believed to have been the biological father, hence her second name Gabrielsz. Philip van der Walt (2/1//2014). ^{[citation needed]}
17. ↑ Adriana Gabrielse van de Kaap had an illegitimate child with Hendrik Speldenberg. Elsje Speldenberg was baptised 26 November 1679. Arriaantje got married to Pieter Boshouwer on 9 July 1683. She became the stammoeder of the Bezuidenhouts and the van Locherenbergs. Entered by Philip van der Walt (14/12/2013).
18. ↑ Cornelisz Claassen was her stepfather. Philip van der Walt (2/1/2014). ^{[citation needed]}
19. ↑ Source:
    • NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): dito (13 November) 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/
20. ↑ Source:
    • Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/ transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Seen and added by Philip van der Walt 9 November 2013.
21. ↑ ^{21.0 21.1} Source:
    • First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: July 14 at 2:09am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Jul 16, 2015.
22. ↑ Source:
    • Muster Roll 1708 - "Toegang: 1.04.02 Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811)", Inventarisnummer: 4060 1708 - 1709 [1709]. Eerste deel 1708 - 1709, Image 452 (https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.04.02/invnr/4060/file/NL-HaNA_1.04.02_4060_0452). Added by Gerhard Swart on 4 Sep 2023.
23. ↑ Source:
    • Muster Roll 1709 - "Toegang: 1.04.02 Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811)", Inventarisnummer: 4062 1709 - 1710 [1710]. Eerste deel 1709 - 1710, Image 360 (https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.04.02/invnr/4062/file/NL-HaNA_1.04.02_4062_0360). Added by Gerhard Swart on 4 Sep 2023.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to:

E.J. van der Walt (Medeouteur van: Die familie Van der Walt in Suid-Afrika. Saamgestel deur C.M. van der Walt, E.J. van der Walt, T.S.P. van der Walt. Geredigeer deur E.P. Jooste en I. Groesbeek. EP Genealogie Publikasie Nr. 31 RGN, Pretoria, 1989.) for bringing under to attention through his publications this remarkable period in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony.

C.M. van der Walt for bringing the following source to our attention: A.M. van Rensburg. My Genetic Enrichment : Slaves at the Cape, South Africa.