Zacharia Visser, b5 - first name... in another language.

Jeannette - what is your connection to this family?

I was helping a SA-geni-user and searching some-one in this family and was amazed about this first name, for in Germany I know a lot of men called Zacharias. Is that enough, or do I have to be a niece or so? groetjes, jeannette.

I am searching in Dutch digital archives for ancestry of people coming from Ommen in Gelderland, the Netherlands.

sorry, Ommen is in Overijssel, see also:
* http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommen
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommen
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Thank you Jeannette. I saw the discrepancy, but have never had time to go and look in the archives here in Cape Town to establish the correct position, so I did not want to step on any toes. You know how some people are overly sensitive and sometimes react very much out of proportion if one fiddles with established information. Groete, Naude Visser

and a lot of Dutch people from Overijssel, especially the region Twenthe are originally form Germany.

Her name is given as Zacharias (Zachararayda) in South African Genealogies

The First Fifty Years Project
Baptism - NGK G1 1/1, Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.), 1665-1695: Noch een kind van Joan Coenraadsz Visscher by Grietje Gerrits, genaamt Sacharias, transcribed by Richard Ball, Norfolk, England, (May 2006), Genealogical Society of South Africa, eGSSA Branch http://www.eggsa.org/. Hereinafter cited as Nederduitsch Gereformeerde Kerk, Kerken Boek (Bapt.).

Mansell G. Upham, "Keeping the gate of Hell . . . "subliminal racism" & early Cape carnal conversations between black men & white women", Capensis 1/2001 [Upham ... Keeping] 1/2001 (April 2001): Page 25
"Zacharia Jans Visser was born at the Cape and baptised on 23 August 1665. Since commander Zacharias Wagenaer had been her godfather, she was commonly referred to as Zacharias Wagenaer. Possibly, this is earliest documented case of a woman at the Cape using a man's name. ".

There are always exceptions to "rules"

Yes, it sounds very odd to europeans, but it happens. Do you happen to know where the name Zachararayda comes from? It sounds some-what Arabian? Anyway, I found also the abbreviation Zacharia for this name, so it might also be written false in old books. A 's' at the end of a verb might also been a nice way of writing... You never know for sure in history, that's what makes it a discovery, rather than science. Did you change it again? thanks, jMu.

I have a number of instances in my personal tree where daughters were given male names for various reasons - death of a brother in the Boer War was one, the daughter named Diederick Jacobus in his memory.

I do not know the origins of Zachararayda