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- She may have been baptised as an adult on October 29, 1673. The entry in the baptismal register for that day reads:
"«i»dito (29 dito (October))
Twee bejaarde Vrouwe-Personen, waar van d'een genaamt wierd Catharina van Malbaar out 36 Jaren: d'ander
Elisabeth van Bengalen out ontrent de 30 Jaren«/i»"
(Two adult women, one named Catharina van Malabar, aged 36 years; the other named Elisabeth van Bengalen aged about 30 years)
This would give her date of birth around 1637.
She arrived at the Cape on the «i»Prinses Royaal«/i» on December 23, 1661 witht he return fleet from Batavia. She had been sent by Jacob Does with the merchant Gillis Nonnemans with instructions to hand her over to Jochem Blanck at the Cape. She may have been sold to Commander Cornelis van Qualbergen on Sept 30, 1666, then subsequently to the new Commander Jacob van Borghorst in about 1668. He sold her to Rijkloff van Goens, ex Governor of Batavia, who was enroute to Texel in the Netherlands, perhaps expecting to return he left Catherine with Johannes Coon. Sometime before 1676 she was emancipated (i.e before her marriage to Cornelis Claasen)
Catharina van Malabar had a child, with most probably a European father, this child was known as:
*Adriaentje Gabrielsz baptised 13 November 1667
Adriaantje was baptised as "dito (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"
Cornelis evidently adopted Catharina's daughter Adriaantje because at her marriage in 1683 to Pieter Gerrits she is described as his step daughter («i»ao' 1683, eodem dito [den 4. Julij], Pieter Gerrits zoo, Jonghman, vryburgh en Aedriantie stiefdogter van Kees de boer)«/i»
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