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Married (1) 1804, Elizabeth Josepha van Doesbergh of the Cape, died 1810. Married (2) 1814, Anna Elisabeth Balie of the Cape (born 1791, baptised Anna Catharina Jacoba 1802 at Sak River near Calvinia). Furter's children: 1.Anna Catherina born 28.10.1805, baptised Tulbagh 2.11.1805. 2.Frederika Johanna born Tulbagh 27.3.1808, died before 1810. 3. Frederik baptised Tulbagh 5.6.1810; farmer on Groenberg near Wellington, married Paarl 1838, Maria Elizabeth van Reenen. They had 6 sons and 5 daughters who mostly became farmers and married into the farming community around Wellington and Paarl. 4. Anna Elizabeth Jacoba born 11.7.1818, baptised Beaufort West 10.9.1820, married Beaufort West 9.3.1834, Johannes Harmse Korf, a farmer, died 27.1.1874 on the farm Krantz Kraal survived by two sons and three daughters. 8 / 1 KAB, MR 1791; 2 KAB, BRD 28; 3 KAB, J 226; 4 KAB, MOOC 8/58, 10.7.1810; 6 KAB, J 425; 7 KAB, MOOC 8/46, p. 10, 26.6.1829; 8 KAB, MOOC 6/9/148 Estate 741/1874. Rudolph, Johan Matthias born Basel, arrived 24.10.1786 on Doggerbank as soldier for Kamer Amsterdam. 1788-1791 gunner. / KAB, MR 1788-1789; NL, ARA, MR 1788. Depeyer, Johan Goenraad born Schaffhausen. 1787 corporal, sick. / KAB, MR 1787. D’Rossien, Ferdinant Anthonie born Fribourg. 1787 soldier, sick. / KAB, MR 1787. Hofmeester, Hans Caspar born Zurich. 1787 soldier, sick. / KAB, MR 1787. Walser, Hans Ulrich born Wald AR. 1787 soldier, sick. / KAB, MR 1787. Pieteloeke, Jean Baptiste born Geneva [Pitteloux of Rueyres-les-Pres FR?]. 1787 sailor, sick. / KAB, MR 1787. Coenraad, Jacob born Bremgarten AG [Konrad?], arrived 1.1.1787 on Maria as soldier for Kamer Amsterdam. 1787 wagonmaker. / KAB, MR 1787; NL, ARA, MR 1787. Keuffer, Peter born Berne [Keuffer of VD or Küffer of Seeland BE?], arrived 2.6.1787 on Houtlust as able seaman for Kamer Delft. / KAB, MR 1787; NL, ARA, MR 1787. Zobeli, Johan Jacob born Zurich [Zöbeli?], arrived 27.4.1787 on Voorschooten for Kamer Amsterdam with pay fl 10. 1787 convalescing. / KAB, MR 1787; NL, ARA, MR 1787. Liedy / Ludy, Matthias born Basel [Lüthi?], probably arrived 1787 as soldier of the Regiment Wurttemberg, is recorded in 1795 as a soldier receiving no pay, being employed as a schoolteacher at Klapmuts. 1 John Barrows wrote: 2 “Some (farmers) have a person in the house whom they call schoolmaster. This is generally a man who has served out his time in the ranks…. not only to instruct children to read and write, to sing psalms and learn by heart a few occasional prayers but he must also make himself serviceable in other aspects.” In 1767 he was trading in Cape Town. 3 / KAB, BO 193; 2 Barrows: An account of travels, vol. 1, p. 82; 3 KAB, J 443: Company’s servants, 1797; C 1064, p. 80. 106
Baarth, Johan Adam born “Herbroek” [Barth? Heerbrugg SG??). 1788-1789 soldier. / KAB, MR CA 1787-1788. Emdorff, Jacob born Berne [Imdorf of Guttannen BE?] 1788 gunner, sick. / KAB, MR 1788. Mongin, Charles Anthoine born Pourytry [Porrentruy JU?] 1788 sailor, sick. / KAB, MR 1788. Chevallier, Anthony of “Zwitserland” [GE, NE or VD?], 1788 soldier, sick. / KAB, MR 1788. Hanneman, Jacob born SG [Hannimann of Mörschwil SG?], arrived 4.1.1788 on Dorwijk. 1789 soldier, sick.1791 junior sailor sick. About mid March loaned to Willem Kirsten until 28.8.1793. 1 September 1795 listed as not receiving pay and did not report at Company’s offices. / 1 KAB, C 1004, p. 98; 2 KAB, MR 1789, 1791; 3 KAB, C 1064, p. 1907. Tredoux, Jacques-Gideon born Aigle VD. Baptised 9.4.1767 in the Waalse Kerk, at The Hague, eldest son of Claude Francois Tredoux of Aigle VD and Helena Catharina Le Beou (or Le Beon) of Middelburgh, Zeeland. The name Tredoux has died out in Switzerland. Arrived 6.4.1788 on Bletterwijk as Sub-Lieutenant. 1 Here he was appointed full Lieutenant and for the next years served on various locally based ships. His duties are illustrated by an incident which happened in 1795 when he was responsible for bringing from Saldanha Bay a quantity of sugar, rice and coffee beans which had been discharged there by the fleet returning from the East. The Company debited him with the sum of fl 1 190 (equivalent to his year’s pay) for discharging a lesser quantity in Cape Town. Tredoux successfully requested not to be held liable for the loss, blaming it on bad bags. 2 With the British occupation Tredoux lost his appointment and established himself as a law- and general agent in Keerom Street, possibly also doing transport work: the 1807 census shows him as having eleven male and seven female slaves, two four-wheeled and two two-wheeled wagons or carts and nine horses. 3 At about this time several French speaking immigrants arrived, amongst them Jeremie Auguste Rouviere of Neuchatel and Louis Balthasar Meurant of Basel. They rekindled local theatrical activities, which had been introduced by the French regiments garrisoned here earlier. Tredoux and his children took a very active part in productions. Initially the plays presented were in French. Tredoux pioneered the use of Dutch. During the years 1806-1825 Tredoux was director of the theatre company Tot Nut en Vermaak and his son Jacques Gideon 1825-1826 of the children’s company Tot Oefening en Smaak. In 1825, at the age of 58 Tredoux still danced in the corps de ballet in a Dutch translation of Moliere’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Obviously he was still full of energy and had a slim figure: the play is not a comic opera in which you can have a rotund elderly gentleman bouncing about the stage! 4 FAVOURS IN HIGH PLACES The successive French and English speaking garrisons had staged many plays in their native tongues but Tredoux, very proud of his new homeland, catered for the Dutch speaking inhabitants of the Cape. He may also have felt some hostility towards the British who had twice invaded the Cape. On a certain occasion, at a Dutch play, General Grey, Commanding Officer of the British forces at the Cape entered the theatre and the band of an English regiment which had been permitted to attend the evening for the 107
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ADOLPHE LINDER THE SWISS IN SOUTHER
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1. PROLOGUE Messrs Felix Ernst and
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general reader. The following compa
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4. SHORT HISTORY OF ARRIVALS DURING
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learned to love. Only ten are known
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Dutch army. His grandson served as
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TABLE 6 Showing the number of Swiss
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Key River where they encountered th
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shoemakers’assistants, farm hands
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Jan Sausche of Rougemont VD bought
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there to form a settlement to suppl
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All the lieutenants and junior offi
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Swiss settler, Christiaan Orffer of
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Scheer / Schersliefer, Samuel born
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Phlegel, Nicolas (also recorded as
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over to the Company. Unfortunately
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Commissioner De Mist and the German
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the Huguenot brothers Guillaume and
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In 1700 he is recorded with wife Be
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of Jan Oberholster of Zurich. Doubt
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Assenburgh, who placed him under ar
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Stellenbosch farm Uitkyk, 51,8 ha.,
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permission to start a business. 5 O
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Meynraad, Jan Leenert born Schaffha
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After a lapse of six months during
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Page 62 and 63: Winger /Minger Nicolaas born Berne
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Page 66 and 67: Superbiller, Jan Coenraad born Appe
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Page 72 and 73: kitchen utensils to Claas Jonge and
Page 74 and 75: KAB, MR 1758, 1760-1761; NL, MR 175
Page 76 and 77: Weis / Weys, Jan born Solothurn [Wy
Page 78 and 79: Pieters, Pieter born Zurich [Peter?
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Page 82 and 83: Married 1.7.1783 Maria Catharina, d
Page 84 and 85: 11.George Egbertus born 1792, gaole
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Page 88 and 89: Meynderts, Jan born Basel, arrived
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Page 95 and 96: was compensated for the loss of a h
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Page 117 and 118: 3. Johannes Pierre Francois born 18
Page 119 and 120: following year married Johanna Geer
Page 121 and 122: Coetzee, Marylin: Line of Descent o
Page 123 and 124: Roulet, Louis-Edouard: Jean-Pierre
Page 125 and 126: CO = Colonial Office CO 333 Letters
Page 127 and 128: RLR 14, Licences: Loan Farms. T = D
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Page 137 and 138: Humard, 75 Hungerbüller, 72 Hypze,
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Page 143 and 144: Sergeans, Louis / Charles-Louis, 10
Page 145: Waser / Waasen, Rudolf, 81 Weber, 6
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