The family reconstruction records Jannetje’s birth on Bonaire as Elizabeth Goeloe’s sixth child. The record makes family life visible during enslavement, while the colonial system generally recorded maternal identity more fully than enslaved fathers.
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What do the Aruba muster lists and later Bonaire records show when read together?
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The family study links muster lists, letters, manumission, emancipation, and civil records across islands.
The June 1860 Aruba request sought a mason and a carpenter from Bonaire or Curaçao.
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The digitized correspondence summarized in the family study gives those occupations and possible sources.