Coleccion Aruba > Database of People Enslaved on Aruba 1840-1863 > Information on person no. 11159

Person: Virginia Demetricia (Gaai)

Name: Virginia Demetricia

Also known as: Virginia Demeticia

Born: 22 december 1842 (Aruba)

Emancipated: 1 juli 1863 (Curaçao) as Virginia Demeticia Gaai

Children (1): Jeannette (Dana) *

Mother: Maria Theodora

Siblings (7): Martha Cornelia (Bikker), Juliaan (Liprandi), Juliana (Bikker), Eulalio Pedro (Bikker), Eduard (Bikker), Juan Ernist (Biest), Placido Elvire (Van Biessen)

Matriarch: Maria Magdalena

See also: the family tree of Virginia Demetricia and family (14). (Last names: Biest, Bikker, Dana, Gaai, Liprandi, Van Biessen)

* 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 Virginia Demetricia (Gaai)

22 december 1842

Birth of Virginia Demetricia

Location: Aruba

Owner: Jan Hendrik van der Biest

Mother: Maria Theodora
Source: [1]
21 november 1860

Export of Virginia Demetricia

Age: 17

Location: Aruba → Curaçao

From owner: Jan Hendrik van der Biest
To owner: Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Price: 140
Mother: Maria Theodora
Source: [2]
14 december 1860

Curacao Registers:
Import of Virginia Demeticia

Age: 17

Location: Aruba → Curaçao

Owner: Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Mother: Maria Theodora
Remarks: te Aruba gekocht van J.H. van der Biest 14/12/1860

Source: [3] [4]
14 juni 1862

Curacao Registers:
Birth of Jeannette (child)

Location: Curaçao

Owner: Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Mother: Virginia Demetrie
Source: [5] [6]
1 juli 1863

Curacao Registers:
Emancipation of Virginia Demeticia

as: Virginia Demeticia Gaai

Age: 20

Location: Curaçao

Owner: Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Source: [7] [8]
1 juli 1863

Curacao Registers:
Emancipation of Jeannette (child)

as: Jeannette Dana

Age: ± 1

Location: Curaçao

Owner: Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Source: [9] [10]

Citation: "Information on person no. 11159: Virginia Demetricia (Gaai)", 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=11159
Expansion of: Arends et al. (2023), Aruba: Slavernij en emancipatie, 1840-1863.

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