Reference code
ZA UCT BC642
Title
Torriano-Vos Family Documents
Date(s)
- 1826-1836 (Creation)
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Fonds
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ca.35 items
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Biographical history
Charles Torriano was a lieutenant in the service of the East India Company in Ceylon from 1798-1801. Torriano was killed in 1801 leaving a wife and daughter. In 1805 she married Michiel Christiaan Vos (1759-1825), who had been appointed Minister in Ceylon. He had been Minister at Tulbagh and had initiated a great missionary revival in the Cape church. In 1809 they returned to the Cape. It was after Vos' death in 1825 that his widow Johanna Petronella van Geyzel (1781-1835), initiated claims to the inheritance left by her first husband.
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Correspondence 1826-1838
Wills, family trees etc.
Documents regarding a claim by Johanna Petronella van Geyzel, widow of Charles Torriano, and later wife of Michiel Christiaan Vos (1759-1825) to an inheritance left by Charles Torriano.
Wills, family trees etc.
Documents regarding a claim by Johanna Petronella van Geyzel, widow of Charles Torriano, and later wife of Michiel Christiaan Vos (1759-1825) to an inheritance left by Charles Torriano.
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- English
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2013
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- English