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

Zara van de Khoe^1,2

F, #19153, b. circa 1647

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Last Edited

29/06/2019

Birth*

Zara van de Khoe was born circa 1647 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, she was said to be 24-years-old at her death in 1671.³

Notes

Zara van de Khoe Mansell Upham's Zara — An inquiry into the (mis)application of traditionally prescribed punishment against persons committing suicide during the VOC's colonial occupation of the
Cape of Good Hope is essential reading. You can find it in the Remarkable Writing section of this website.³

Citations

She would have been from one of the Khoe peoples in the area.
[S855] Mansell G Upham 'Zara - an inquiry into the (mis)application of traditionally prescribed punishment against persons committing suicide during the VOC's colonial occupation of the Cape of Good Hope', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), September 2003.
[S855] Mansell G Upham 'UL09 Zara', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "On 18 December 1671 the suspended corpse of the 24-year-old female 'Hottentot' suicide Zara (also found as Sara) is found hanging …."