This dataset gives an overview of people appearing in the inventories of deceased people created by the Orphan Chamber of the Cape of Good Hope from 1673-1844. It consists of structured data derived from the transcriptions of the TEPC-project (Transcription of Estate Papers at the Cape of Good Hope), enriched with new datapoints. Specifically, it includes the people tagged by the TEPC-project as ‘person’: the deceased with any potential partners, and the enslaved people they owned.
The Estate Papers of the Cape of Good Hope were originally transcribed the the TANAP project and are also available as a dataset.