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Inventories of the Orphan Chamber
of the Cape of Good Hope


Conclusion

The legacy of the Orphan Chamber still continues in the form of metres and metres of written evidence that resulted from the execution of the institution’s functions and duties.

These documents of inestimable value include wills, inventories, vendu rolls, liquidation and distribution accounts, death registers, letters received, letters despatched, resolutions, kusting brieven, conditions of sale, bewijzen and miscellaneous documents.

Of all these documents from the Orphan Chamber that are vested in the Cape Town Archives Repository the inventories are of core interest in the project concerned. Hundreds of people from our past are represented in the documents that were compiled over a period of 161 years.

 


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