A project to transcribe and publish copies of records relating to individuals who lived at the Cape (Cabo da Boa Esperança / de Caep de Goede Hoop / Die Kaap die Goeie Hoop) during the first decades of the settlement after 1652

Last Edited

30/07/2017

Birth*

Lysbeth van de Caep was born circa 1683 in de Caep de Goede Hoop, the date is estimated, Salomon appears to be her first child.1

Family
Child	Salomon van de Caep van Lysbeth1 b. b 3 May 1699

Notes

Between 1675 and 1714 the Company owned several Cape born women named Elisabeth / Lisjbeth and variants thereof. Apart from some individuals, it is very difficult to work out who their mothers or who their children were. The things I consider include: ---the age they were considered adult, which seems to have been when they reached puberty although in some instances seems to include prepubuscent children ---age gaps between children. The gaps between the birth of children seem predominantly to be between 12 to 36 months, but occasionally less or more ---naming patterns and the way some individuals are identified in the lodge census records in which both mothers and grandmothers are identified These women may include Lysbeth van de Caep, Lysbeth van de Caep, Lysbeth van de Caep and Lijsbeth van de Caep.

Slaves Owned by the Company

On 3 May 1699 Lysbeth van de Caep and Salomon van de Caep van Lysbeth were enslaved and owned by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) at the Cape.1