Catharina (van Bengal) Vermeulen (bef. 1669 - aft. 1695)

Born before 20 Oct 1669 in Bengal, India

Wife of Jan Willemsz Vermeulen — married 7 Nov 1694 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, Dutch Cape Colony

Descendants

Died after 30 Jan 1695 after age 25 in de Caep de Goede Hoop

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Biography

Name

Catharina ^[1][2][3][4] Opklim ^[1][2][3] / van Bengal ^[1] / van Bengale ^[2][5] / Vermeulen ^[3][4]

Birth

Date: Catharina was born about 1663 ^[1][2] / before 20 Oct 1669 ^[3]

Place: Bengal, India ^[1]

Baptism

Date: 8 Feb 1693 ^[3]

Place: Kaap de Goede Hoop, [Suid-Afrika] ^[3]

"... den 8 Dito sijn diese ondergescrevene personen op hare voor gaende belijdenisse door het sacrament van den H: Doop Christi Kerke ingelijks Isaac van Bengalen met Catharina van Bengalen Willemina van Mauritius met Catrina van Mauritius, ende Maria Elisab[ ] van de Caep, alle vrhliede alhier" ^[3]

Mother Putative

According to Delia Robertson Cathrijn van Bengale (b. c 1651) - until as yet still no WikiTree-profile - is the candidate mother. ^[6]

Marriage

Date: 7 November 1694 ^[3]

Spouse: Jan Willemsz Vermeulen ^[3][7]

"Sijn in den huwelijken stant bevestigt Jan Willemse Vermeulen jongman geboortigh van Utrecht met Catarina van de Caap vry swartinne jongedochter." ^[3]

Slave / Slavin

"...slave Catrijn van Bengale who was 26 years old when sold on 23 December 1677 by Hester Weijers van Lier to her son in law Tobias Vlasvath, for Rds 80. Catrijn was sold with two daughters Martha 6 years and Magdalena 3 years old." ^[3]

Death

Date: Catharina Opklim van Bengal passed away in 1683 ^[1] / after 30 January 1695 - her daughter Jannetje were baptised ^[8] / in 1714. ^[2]

Place: Cape [South Africa] ^[1] / Kaap Kolonie ^[2]

Sources

See also:

• A.M. van Rensburg. My Genetic Enrichment : My Genetic Enrichment : Slaves at the Cape, South Africa.
• God’s Slave & Afrikaner ‘Hearts of Darkness’ (added on 19 April 2014)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} WikiTree profile Van Bengal-1 created by Pieter Meyer, May 2, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} WikiTree profile Van Bengale-6 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10} WikiTree profile Opklim-1 created through the import of Wiggins.ged by Edward Wiggins on Mar 27, 2013. Sources:
   • Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Opklim (also seen: February 9, 2014 and March 21, 2015 by Philip van der Walt): [http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g7/p7787.htm
   • Title: Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): den 20 octob.[er] [1669] Note: 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/ Baptism: "een dochterje van Catharyn slavin van S[ieu]r. Adrianus de Vooght wiert genaemt Catharijn tot getuyge stonde Anna van der Meer sijn huysvr.[ouw]"
   • Title: Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: 1682 Note: transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/ Name mention as 'Catharina van Bengale' : "den 12 April is van Bartholomeus Herman gedoopt opt schip Africa een kint genaamt Mauritsz Jacobsen en de moeder Catharina van Bengale: waer van soude syn schipper Jacob Maurits de vader, so men segt."
   • Title: Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): ao' 1685 Note: 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/ Name mention as 'Catrina van Bengale' : "den 27 dito (Mai) Sybrant de moeder Catrina van Bengale en de vader Jan Willemse Vermeulen van Utrecht vryman, Maria Mostert"
   • Title: NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): 1693 Note: 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/' Name mention as 'Catharina van Bengalen' : "den 8 Dito sijn diese ondergescrevene personen op hare voor gaende belijdenisse door het sacrament van den H: Doop Christi Kerke ingelijks Isaac van Bengalen met Catharina van Bengalen Willemina van Mauritius met Catrina van Mauritius, ende Maria Elisab[ ] van de Caep, alle vrhliede alhier"
   • Title: Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: ao 1694 Note: transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Page Name mention as 'Catharina van de Caap' : "den 7 Novemb' sijn in den huwelijken staet befestigt Jan Willemse Vermeulen jongman geboortig van Utrecht, met Catharina van de Caap vry swartinne jonge dochter" ; Name mention as 'Word' : 'n 'Vrijswartin' (in Dutch Vrijswartin, a person formally enslaved, who having purchased her freedom (or had it purchased for her) was permitted to farm, become a trader, or work for others. Although free blacks were nominally equal to free burgers, in practice this was not the case.': "den 7 Novemb' sijn in den huwelijken staet befestigt Jan Willemse Vermeulen jongman geboortig van Utrecht, met Catharina van de Caap vry swartinne jonge dochter"
   • Author: A J Boeseken Title: Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape 1658 -1700 ... "...slave Catrijn van Bengale who was 26 years old when sold on 23 December 1677 by Hester Weijers van Lier to her son in law Tobias Vlasvath, for Rds 80. Catrijn was sold with two daughters Martha 6 years and Magdalena 3 years old."
   • Author: A M van Rensburg Title: South Africa's Stamouers'. Stamouers.com Vermeulen:

   - Marriage: "Sijn in den huwelijken stant bevestigt Jan Willemse Vermeulen jongman geboortigh van Utrecht met Catarina VAN DE CAAP vry swartinne jongedochter."

   - "Catharina van Bengale some have referred to her as ' Opklim ' she was born in 1651. She was a slave from Bengale, India. She got married 7 November 1694 to Jan Willemsz Vermeulen. "Sijn in den huwelijken stant bevestigt Jan Willemse Vermeulen jongman geboortigh van Utrecht met Catarina van de Caap vry swartinne jongedochter." "

   - "The Bengali slaves tended to be bought from the feringhi (Portuguese and mestizo raiders) off the Arakan coast. These slaves were then purchased at the port of Dinga."

   - "India became such an imported part of the VOC trade that the VOC established direct sailing between Netherland and south India, without sailing to Batavia as the custom at first was. There were two sailing routes from the Cape to India, between August and January the ships would sail north following the coast of Africa, through the Mozambique strait and then round Madagascar to India. The other months they would sail east from Cape Town three hundred miles and then head north towards India. The journey to India took about 80 days. The return trip was usually done between the months of October and February."

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} WikiTree profile Opklim-2 created by Stephen McCallum 1 August 2018. {Date of birth guess = 1720} Source:
   • Angela
5. ↑ Other contributing profiles {to the conflated profiles of Van_Palicatte-2 and Van Bengal-1}:
   • WikiTree profile Van Bengale-10 through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
   • WikiTree profiles Van Paliacatta-1 and Nn-1050 on May 2, 2013 & 21 March 2013 by Pieter Meyer.
   • WikiTree profile Van Palicatte-1 through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
   • WikiTree profiles Van Bengale-3 and Van Bengale-4 through the import of AJBOTHA.ged on 1 September 2011 and on Feb 25, 2012 by Deon Botha.
   • WikiTree profile Van Paliacatta-2 by Schalk Pienaar 24 April 2014. Source:
   • Stamouers.com Catharina van Bengale - A.M.van Rensburg (added on Apr 21 2014 Schalk Pienaar).
6. ↑ Source:
   • Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Catharina Opklim (also seen: February 9, 2014 and March 21, 2015 by Philip van der Walt).
7. ↑ Source
   • The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions. Source: Cape Town Marriages 1665-1695Cape Town Marriages 1667. Written by transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller. page 90. Seen and entered June 29, 2017 by Susanna de Bruyn
8. ↑ Source:
   • The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions. Source: Cape Town Baptisms 1695. Written by transcribed by Richard Ball and Corney Keller. Posted in Cape Town Baptisms 1665-1695 page 55. 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 June 28, 2017 by Susanna de Bruyn.