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  • In a scattered generation of siblings, however, close kin connections could mean moving a great distance, as Anna and Arend van de Caab found when they followed Jacoba and Barend Jacobus Burger to the Roggeveld.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • In contrast, Anna van de Caab and her child Arend presumably went to the Roggeveld with Jacoba and Barend Jacobus Burger, making the chance of reunion with those they liked or loved from Groote Valleij slim indeed.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Desertion by slaves typically was punished by flogging, branding, and work in chains for varying numbers of years; for example ARA: VOC 10934, OBP, 57, the case against Titus van Madagascar and others, 27 Oct. 1735; ARA: VOC 10934, OBP, 32 the case against Valentijn van de Caab and others, 12 May 1735.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Alida's paternal grandmother (and Antoinetta's mother) was a former slave, Ansela van de Caab. 14 Her sister, Johanna, was born two years before her parents married. 15 Cornelis Campher and Dorothea Oelofse went on to have nine children together, Alida being penultimate.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Victoria van de Caab and her daughter Rachel also remained within plausible visiting distance of their old home, moving to the Witsenberg valley with Johanna Catharina and Hendrik van der Merwe.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Cornelis Koopman and his younger brother Bartholomeus were sons of Albertus Koopman, an immigrant from Utrecht, and Francina Wina van de Caab. 39 Although the loan farm ledgers do not comment on Bartholomeus's social status (gedoopte Bastaard), Cornelis's mixed-race heritage and Christian conformity were noted along with his loan payment records.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • The Joostens were not kin to the Lubbes, though they were cousins of the Moutons. 29 Roggeveld farmer Isaak Visagie, no connection at all to the Lubbes, purchased Sabandar van Bougies with his son, Abraham van de Caab.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Andries brought Flora van de Caab and Fortuyn van Sambowa up the river to Modder Valleij.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • One of the most unrelenting of his enemies, named Caab, on whose head a price had been set, had the audacity suddenly to appear in the mosque at Medina while Mohammed was preaching to the multitude.

    History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

  • This precious garment was afterward bought by one of the caliphs of the East, from the family of Caab, for the sum of twenty thousand drachms, and became the pride of those Asiatic sovereigns, who wore it only on the occasion of some solemn festival.

    History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

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