First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Goeboe of the Chainouquas¹

M, #19132, b. circa 1640

Father*

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26/05/2019

Birth*

Goeboe of the Chainouquas was born circa 1640 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, the date is estimated. In 1660 he was designated heir to his father and had responsibility for governing the Chainouquas.¹

Marriage*

He married Sister of Krotoa of the Goringhaicona, daughter of Pn of the Goringhaicona, circa 1650.²

Citations

[S844] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, JVR Journal III, 1659-1662, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street, 1897), p.159: He is also called Soesoa, and his son Goeboe, to whom he has entrusted the government, and is therefore called Khoequoa, or the king's successor, being acknowledged as such.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives, JVR Journal III 1659-1662.
[S844] Precis of the archives, JVR Journal III 1659-1662, p.164: According to these councillors Sousoa was the more inclined to grant his request, because with Oedasoa's help he would be better able to keep away from here the threatening Hessequas ; otherwise they believed that Oedasoa's request would have had little effect, as he bore no good will to Oedasoa, because the latter, once finding Goeboe rather defenceless on a certain spot, had carried off the latter's wife, who
was the last deceased wife of Oedasoa, and sister of Eva, who is therefore sister in law to both these great lords, as she always pretends, though others confirm it.