Rachel Susanna Keet

Birth and baptism record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-C7N7-4?cc=147...

Baptism Register, Swellendam https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-SQL5-T

Marriage Register, Montagu: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVD-5L69

Death Notice: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSSQ-9356-S

"[Breyten Breytenbach] sifts through the archives of the local library searching for information about his great-grandmother Rachel Susanna Keet, a famous midwife. 'Reading about my great-grandmother is like listening to someone else describing the dusty light coming through the windows of a room where dead memories are kept.'” SOURCE: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-08-bk-63571-story.... [1999].

"The fluctuating narrative is also anchored by the recurring presence of [Breyten] Breytenbach's great-grandmother, Rachel Susanna Keet, to whom the book is dedicated, a woman who tended the sick with cheerfulness and acted as midwife to hundreds of women of all races." SOURCE: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/reviews/... [1999].