First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records
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
Now Tharangambadi, was a Danish East India Company settlement until 1845, with a brief interruption between 1806 and 1845. It was then taken over by the British which was the imperial power until 1947.