EVENT INFORMATION

3
April
1861

Helena Steef’s record preserves her mother’s name

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📅 3 April 1861 📍 Curacao

The index records Helena, also known as Helena Steef, age 57 and daughter of Anika. H.J. de Ruiter van Steveninck (born Schotborgh) is named in the entry. The source records a legal transfer to freedom while leaving the conditions and Helena’s own perspective unrecorded.

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Helena

Anika

H.J. de Ruiter van Steveninck

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Curaçao colonial administration

manumission record