Catharina Opklim, SM

Conflicting information!

Sometimes confused with Groote Catrijn (Catharina van Bengale), who was a slave from Bengale born about 1631. Groote Catrijn was a criminal, pardonned and sent as a slave to the Cape. Groote Catrijn died about 1683. Researcher AM van Rensburg (https://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/surnames-v-z/92-van-bengale-cat... and https://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/surnames-v-z/577-vermeulen-jan-...).

1) Vermeulen at Stamouers

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.

2) Slaves at the Cape, South Africa Author: A.M. van Rensburg (b4 c2 d1 e6 f5 g5 h3 i2)

Catharina van Bengale was born in 1663. She was a slave from Bengale, India. She got married 7 Nov 1694 to Jan Willemsz Vermeulen. They had their children, prior to the marriage, while she was still a slave.

3) The First Fifty Years Project

Catharina Opklim was born in bondage, before 20 October 1669, and was owned by Do. Adrianus de Vooght - NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): An. 1669

Den 20 Octob, NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.): An. 1669
Den 20 Octob - Een dochtertje van Catharyn slavvin van Do' Adrianus de Vooght wiert genaemt Catharijn tot getuyge stonde Anna van der Meer sijn huysvr, 1665-1695, Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/

Marriage* She married Jan Willemse Vermeulen on 7 November 1694 at Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop.

Freed Slave - She became a Free Black on 7 November 1694, 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. -

NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Mar), 1665-1695: ao 1694 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, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/.

Family 1

Jacob Maurits b. c 1656

Child
Mauritsz Jacobsen b. b 12 Apr 1682

NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: 1682

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., transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/

Family 2

Jan Willemse Vermeulen b. c 1650

Children

• Sybrand Vermeulen6 b. b 20 May 1685
• Anna Vermeulen7 b. b 8 Dec 1686, d. 1716
• Abram Vermeulen7 b. b 8 Dec 1686
• Hercules Vermeulen7 b. b 8 Dec 1686
• Maria Vermeulen+8 b. b 20 Feb 1689
• Willemtje Vermeulen9 b. b 18 Mar 1691
• Jannetje Vermeulen10 b. b 30 Jan 1695

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Catharina was a slave from India. She had 4 children with Jan Willems Vermeulen and they married on 7/11/1694, the same day their 4th child was baptized and Catharina was freed.

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