EVENT INFORMATION

1
July
1863

Emancipation gives Steba the surname Rijna

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๐Ÿ“… 1 July 1863 ๐Ÿ“ Bonaire

The emancipation register gives Steba the surname Rijna, derived from his mother Sebel Rijna. A maternal name became a legal family name at freedom, linking the new record to kinship that colonial administration had often obscured.

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People in this event

Adriaan Fingal

Klara

Pedro Joseph Frigerio

Susan Grovell

November

Emma Martins

Joseph

Maria Tomasa Ridderstaat

Anna Petrona

Hermina Ridderstaat

Maria Inees Ridderstaat

Nouel Ridderstaat

Organizations in this Event

Plantation record

Aruba emancipation register

Owner register

later civil-status note

Aruba colonial administration