Coleccion Aruba > Database of People Enslaved on Aruba 1840-1863 > Information on person no. 10684

Person: Magdalena (Brown)

Name: Magdalena

Born: ± 1837

Emancipated: 1 juli 1863 (Curaçao) as Magdalena Brown

Children (1): Cathalina (Brown) *

Mother: Klarissa

Siblings (13): Margriet Gabriela, Emerenciana (Bijlo), Juliana Damasia (Bijlo), Regino Paulo, Maria Caijetana, Maria Victoria, Eusebia (Bijlo), Isabela (Bijlo), Juana (Bijlo), Colastica (Bijlo), Remio, Lorenzo (Bijlo), Elizabeth (Bijlo)

Matriarch: Anna Christina

See also: the family tree of Magdalena and family (25). (Last names: Bijlo, Brown, Concepcion, De Vasolle, Estaquin, Everon)

* Note: people marked with an asterisk (*) do not appear in the 1840-1863 Aruba Slavery Registers. They are included here because a family member that does appear the Aruba registers, in order to show the family links between people enslaved on Aruba and people enslaved on other islands, and also to show their family trees as complete as possible.

Timeline for Magdalena (Brown)

± 1837

Birth of Magdalena

Mother: Klarissa
20 november 1852

Private Sale of Magdalena

Age: ± 15

Location: Aruba

From owner: Hendrik Croes
To owner: Jan Lourens Croes

Price: 310
Mother: Klarissa
Source: [1]
1 november 1855

Export of Magdalena

Age: ± 18

Location: Aruba → Curaçao

From owner: Lourens Croes
To owner: Jan van der Singel

Price: 250
Mother: Klarissa
Source: [2]
2 november 1855

Curacao Registers:
Import of Magdalena

a.k.a.: Maleentje

Age: ± 18

Location: Aruba → Curaçao

Owner: Jan van der Singel

Mother: Clarisse
Remarks: gekocht van Jan Lourens Croes te Aruba 2/11/1855

Source: [3] [4]
1 juni 1861

Curacao Registers:
Birth of Catalina (child)

Location: Curaçao

Owner: Jan van der Singel

Mother: Maleentje
Source: [5] [6]
1 juli 1863

Curacao Registers:
Emancipation of Magdalena

a.k.a.: Maleentje

as: Magdalena Brown

Age: ± 26

Location: Curaçao

Owner: Jan van der Singel

Source: [7] [8]
1 juli 1863

Curacao Registers:
Emancipation of Cathalina (child)

as: Cathalina Brown

Age: ± 2

Location: Curaçao

Owner: Jan van der Singel

Source: [9] [10]

Citation: "Information on person no. 10684: Magdalena (Brown)", in: Scholing, Croes, Van Eerden (2024). Database of People Enslaved on Aruba 1840-1863, version 2.0 [Database]. URL: https://coleccion.aw/database/en/show/?id=10684
Expansion of: Arends et al. (2023), Aruba: Slavernij en emancipatie, 1840-1863.

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