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Person: Venus (Ystra)

Name: Venus
Born: ± 1839
Emancipated: 1 juli 1863 (Curaçao) as Venus Ystra

Mother: Juana

Matriarch: Petrona

See also: the family tree of Venus and family (8). (Last names: Ystra)


* 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 Venus (Ystra)

  • ± 1839
    Birth of Venus
    Mother: Juana
  • 1 april 1841
    Export of Venus
    Age: ± 2
    Location: Aruba → Curaçao
    Mother: Juana
    Remarks: gekocht van I. Maduro te Aruba april 1841
    Source: [1]
  • 1 april 1841
    Curacao Registers:
    Import of Venus
    Age: ± 2
    Location: Aruba → Curaçao
    Mother: Juana
    Remarks: gekocht van I. Maduro te Aruba april 1841
    Source: [2] [3]
  • 1 juli 1841
    Curacao Registers:
    Private Sale of Venus
    Age: ± 2
    Location: Curaçao
    Mother: Juana
    Remarks: gekocht van W.C. Gaerste juli 1841, zie folio 397
    Source: [4] [5]
  • 1 juli 1863
    Curacao Registers:
    Emancipation of Venus
    as: Venus Ystra
    Age: ± 24
    Location: Curaçao
    Source: [6] [7]

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