Coleccion Aruba > Database of People Enslaved on Aruba 1840-1863 > Information on person no. 18004

Person: Maria Eloisa (Kusmus) *

Name: Maria Eloisa

Born: ± 1856 (Bonaire)

Emancipated: 1 juli 1863 (Bonaire (Eerste District (Kralendijk))) as Maria Eloisa Kusmus

Religion: Catholic

Mother: Martina Celestina *

Siblings (4): Eduard Lazarus (Kusmus), Amalia Girigoria (Kusmus) *, Euslina Martina (Kusmus) *, Margrietta Cipriana (Kusmus) *

Matriarch: Laurenda *

See also: the family tree of Maria Eloisa and family (20). (Last names: Carrera, Hoefer, Klavier, Kusmus)

* 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 Maria Eloisa (Kusmus)

± 1856

Birth of Maria Eloisa

Location: Bonaire

Owner: Richard Raven Muskus

Mother: Martina Celestina
Source: [1] [2]
1 juli 1863

Bonaire Registers:
Emancipation of Maria Eloisa

as: Maria Eloisa Kusmus

Age: ± 7

Location: Bonaire (Eerste District (Kralendijk))

Religion: Catholic
Owner: Richard Raven Muskus

Mother: Martina Celestina
Source: [3] [4]

Citation: "Information on person no. 18004: Maria Eloisa (Kusmus) *", 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=18004
Expansion of: Arends et al. (2023), Aruba: Slavernij en emancipatie, 1840-1863.

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