Christina Pietersz van de Caep

Delia Robertson, compiler of "First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records (FFY), has recently (2022) reviewed available material relating to this profile and states "I am now of the view that there were two Christine/Christijn Pietersz: van de Caep living more-or-less contemporaneously.

The individual more frequently recorded as Christijn /Christyn was a company owned slave who spent a large part, if not all her life in the Slave Lodge.

The other was more frequently referred to as Christina, and she was privately-owned by Jan Stevensz Botma de Jonge and Christina de Brùyn and subsequently, in 1723, manumitted with her son Willem Stolts by the latter. (this profile).

The reasons I have come to this conclusion are the following:

1. Each woman had a son named Willem. Christina's son was baptised in 1694 and became known as Willem Stolts (var). He died in 1750.Christijn's son was baptised in 1710. He is first enumerated in the Slave Lodge census of 1714, again in 1727 and dies in 1753 - still a company owned slave resident in the Slave Lodge.

2. Willem Stolts married Anna van Beulen who was the grandaughter of Christijn Pietersz, the company-owned slave. If the two, Christina and Christijn, were the same individual, Willem would have married his niece - which is possible but unlikely. "

http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g8/p8955.htm

"Jan Botma and his wife Stijntje Christoffel de Bruijn owned the farm Welgevallen, on the edge of Stellenbosch village. Welgevallen adjoined Coetsenberg, where Jacobus Coetsé was born and raised. After Botma’s death in 1719, Stijntje de Bruijn moved to De Schotsche Kloof in Table Valley, where she made a will which stated that Willem (Stolts) and his fellow slaves Pieter van Bengalen and Christina Pietersz van de Caab should be freed after she died. The three slaves were also to receive a waggon, eight trek oxen and two fish nets with which to earn ther living. (CJ 2602, Wills, no. 11, 14 July 1723.) ." (Margaret Cairns, ‘Willem Stolts of the Cape – 1692-1750’, Familia xxvii (1990), 47. Willem Stolts later married Christijn's grand-daughter Anna van Beulen.

FFYP records that in 1725 Willem Stolts was enumerated on the opgaafrol (census/tax roll) in (Cape Town), de Caep de Goede Hoop, at number 0375, along with Christina Pietersz van de Caep. at number 0376; and Pieter van Bengale at number 0377. They were all designated VS, that is vrijswart or formerly enslaved person.

Christina therefore was granted her freedom and died some time after 1725.

• Margaret Cairns, "Willem Stolts of the Cape - 1692-1750", Familia (Willem Stolts of the Cape - 1692-1750) XXVII/1990 No. 2 (1990)