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Personal data Arnoldus Willemz "Jagt" (Arnoldus Willemz, "Jagt") "Jacht" Basson SV/PROG 

• Nickname is Jacht.
• He was born before March 31, 1647 in Willebrordkirche, Wessel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland.
• He died in the year 1698 in Eensaamheid, Groot Drakenstein, South Africa. He was 50-51 years old.
• A child of Willem Baeson and Elsken Boespinck

Household of Arnoldus Willemz "Jagt" (Arnoldus Willemz, "Jagt") "Jacht" Basson SV/PROG

(1) He is married to Angela ` Mooij Ansele ` van Bengale.

They got married on December 15, 1669 at Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika.

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).

(2) He is married to Angela "Ansiela" van Bengale.

They got married

Notes about Arnoldus Willemz "Jagt" (Arnoldus Willemz, "Jagt") "Jacht" Basson SV/PROG

 

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 wasalready in 1665 at the Cape as a burgher. He had the nickname "Jagt"

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 Boedelrekening MOOC 13/1/2, 1.

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.

Angela was baptised 29 April 1668.

Angela tried to save a Hottentot woman, Sara, who committed suicide by hanging, unfortunately she was already dead (Familia, XVI, p 23).

Angela received two properties as titles according to Cairns p. 86.

Angela had a number of VOORKINDERS, Basson was not their father:

Anna de Koning X Oloef Bergh

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

Johannes van As

Pieter = 3 Jun 1668 (We do not know whohis father was, he died young)

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

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

Arnoldus Basson obtained the title of the farm Nuwedorp in Groot Drakenstein with Jacobus van As on 20 December 1689. He died in 1689.

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.

SOURCES:

JG le Roux and WG le Roux, Ons Drakensteinse Erfgrond: Groot Drakenstein

JA Heese & RTJ Lombard Suid-Afrikaanse Geslagregister, Vol I

W Blommaert "Het Invoern van de Slavernij aan de Kaap", Archive Year Book of South Africa, Vol I, 1938, p 6

Familia XVI, p 23

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