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Personal data Angela ` Mooij Ansele ` (Angela ` Mooij Ansele `) van Bengale SM/PROG 

• First name Angela ` Mooij Ansele `.
• She was born in the year 1628 in Ganges Delta, Bengal, India.
• She died on July 18, 1720 in Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Kaap Kolonie, she was 92 years old.
• A child of Abraham Gabemma and Widow Of Domingo

Household of Angela ` Mooij Ansele ` (Angela ` Mooij Ansele `) van Bengale SM/PROG

(1) She is married to Domingo /de Coningh de Koningh.

They got married

(2) She is married to Arnoldus Willemz "Jagt" Basson.

They got married on December 15, 1669 at Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika, she was 41 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Willem Arnoldus Basson  1670-1713 
2. Gerrit Basson  1673-1713
3. Johannes Basson  < 1675-± 1720 
4. Elsie van der Sande Basson  1677-1717 
5. Michiel Basson  1679-1772 
6. Elsje Basson  1681-1713
7. Maria Basson  ± 1683-1713 

Event (Death of Spouse).

(3) She has/had a relationship with Johannes van As.

Child(ren):

1. Jacobus van As  1661-????
2. Jacobus van As  < 1661-1713 
3. Johannes van As  1665-1688

Event (MYHERITAGE:REL_PARTNERS).

Event (MYHERITAGE:REL_PARTNERS).

(4) She is married to Fracious /de Coningh de Koningh.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Anna /de Coningh de Koningh  1656-1734 

Notes about Angela ` Mooij Ansele ` (Angela ` Mooij Ansele `) van Bengale SM/PROG

 

ANGELA (Ansela) VAN BENGALE

Angela VAN BENGALE was born about 1645. She died in 1720.

Anna de Koningh was born in Batavia, one of three children of the slave known as Angela of Bengal. The whole family was brought to the Cape by Pieter Kemp, a Free Burgher of Batavia, who sold them to Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677). In 1662 Van Riebeeck sold the family to Abraham Gabbema, who when he was transferred to Batavia in 1666 set Angela and her three children free. It is not known what happened to her husband. In 1669 Angela married the Free Burgher Arnoldus Willemsz from Wesel, later known as Arnoldus Willemsz Basson; they had three children.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text11">[6]}

On the 15 Dec 1669 she got married to Arnoldus Willemsz Basson = b3 Johannes Basson = b3c1 Arnoldus Johannes Basson = b3c1d3 Anna Catharina Basson = b6c7 Johannes Dewalt Hattingh = b6c7d4 *Johannes Dewalt Hattingh = b6c7d4e10 Christiaan Johannes Hattingh = b6c7d4e10f4 Martha Rhyna Hattingh = b2c1d2e2f2g3h4 Anna Elizabeth Sophia van Jaarsveldt = b4c2d5e4f11g3 Jacobus Johannes Burger Combrinck = my mother = me

Note:* Johannes Dewalt Hattingh was the half brother of Voortrekker leader Andries W.J. Pretorius. See pencil drawing of Andries Pretorius (19K) holding his sword. Hattingh was married to Anna Elisabeth Retief (after Hattingh passed away she married a Steenkamp) she kept a diary on the Great Trek and was the child of Francois Retief, older brother of Voortrekker leader Piet Retief. See (photo of brother (22k)of Piet Retief and also a photo of a sister of Francois & Piet Retief (16k) found in G Preller's book Piet Retief).

Angela was a slave from Bengale, India. The Ganges delta had numerous company stations, such as Hougli (Head Quarters), Kazimber, and Patna. Clothing, opium and salpeter (the later used in preparation of gunpowder) was sold here. She was brought on the ship Amersfoort to the Cape (W. Blommaert "Het Invoern van de Slavernij aan de Kaap", p 6 Archive Year Book of South Africa 1938 Vol I). In Oct 1655 van Riebeeck bought a slave family from commander Pieter Kemp. Domingo and Angela van Bengale and their three children. Angela was sold by Jan van Riebeeck on 19 Apr 1662 to Abraham Gabbema, on the next day he sold Domingo, Jan, Thomas and Claesje all from Angola, to Roeloff de Man. (One wonders whether this Domingo is the same as Angela's husband). On the 13th April 1666 Gabbema signed a document which would lead to Angela's freedom six months later, see reproduction of this document which gave Angela her freedom (58k), from Boeseken p102, 103. She was the third person to be freed from slavery at the Cape. Angela tried to save a Hottentot woman, Sara, who committed suicide by hanging, unfortunately she was already dead (Familia XVI p23). Angela got married on the 15 December 1669 to the free burgher Arnoldus Willemsz from Wesel, he is known as Arnoldus Willemsz Basson, they had three children: Willem baptised Aug 1670, Gerrit baptised 12 March 1673 and Johannes baptised 5 May 1675. Basson, her husband died in 1689 and Angela died ten years later. Apparently her son Johannes predeceased her and I am a descendant of him. Angela received two properties astitles according to Cairns p 86. Angela was also the mother of Anna de Koningh who got married to Olof Bergh, there is a drawing of Anna de Koningh which I have included at the beginning of Page 1.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text1">[1]}

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Arnoldus Willemsz BASSON, was baptised 31 March 1647 at the Willibrordkirche and he died 1698. His father was Willem Baeson who was married on 9 May 1634 to Elsken Boespinck. He was already in 1665 atthe Cape as a burgher. He had the nickname "Jagt".^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Arnoldus got married, 1669 to the previous slave ANGELA (Ansela) VAN BENGALE (also known as Maaij Ansela). She died c1720, (according to Richard Ball) refer to her Estate Account MOOC 13/1/2, 1.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Jan van Riebeeck bought Angela in 1655 from Pierre Kemp. Van Riebeeck in turn sold Angela on his departure from the Cape in 1662 to Fiscal Abraham Gabbema. On the 13th April 1666 Gabbema signed a document which would lead to Angela's freedom six months late, after serving Thomas Christoffel Mullerr. She was the third person to be freed from slavery at the Cape.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Angela was baptised 29 April 1668.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Angela tried to save a Hottentot woman, Sara, who committed suicide by hanging, unfortunately she was already dead (Familia, XVI, p 23).^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Angela received two properties as titles according to Cairns p. 86.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Angela had a number of 'VOORKINDERS'^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-4">[8]}, Basson was not their father:

Anna de Koning X Oloef Bergh

Jacobusvan As (Their father was most likely Jan van Assen)

Johannes van As

Pieter = 3 Jun 1668 (We do not know who his father was, he died young)^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

CHILDREN OF Arnoldus Willemsz BASSON and ANGELA (Ansela) VAN BENGALE:

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1. Willem baptised Aug 1670, died 30 Jan 1713, X 18 March 1691 Helena Clements

2. Gerrit, X Johanna Rynick

3. Johannes (He died before his mother) X Zacharia Visser

4. Elsie she died young

5. Michiel = 26 Jun 1679 X Maria Daaldons

6. Elsie = 29 Jun 1681 X Reynier van der Sande

7. Maria = 16 May 1683, X C Maasdorp^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Arnoldus Basson obtained the title of the farm Nuwedorp in Groot Drakenstein with Jacobus van As on 20 December 1689. He died in 1689.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Angela purchased the 22 year old slave Pieter van Malabar in 1698. She also bought the slave Arend van Bengale in 1700. When she died she owned the farm Hondswyk in Drakenstein.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-5">[9]https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-text4">[7]}

Throughout her long life Angela endured the suicide in 1671 of the Hottentot woman (Zara) in her sheep pen; the detention in 1687 of her son-in-law (Olof Bergh) on Robben Island &removal thereafter to Ceylon; the execution in 1688 of her son (Jan van As) for kidnapping, stock theft & murder; the sexual indiscretion in 1701 of her son (Jan Basson) with the Widow Putter resulting in a bastard grandson (Arnoldus Johannes Basson who was later banished in 1739 from the Cape for aiding & abetting Estienne Barbier) & the banishment in 1716 of her grandson (Jan van As) to Robben Island for his undisclosed (unmentionable?) behavior.^{https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Bengale-1#_note-6">[10]}

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