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CONTENTS 1. Prologue ………………………………………………………………………………2 2. Chronology 1652-1819 ……………………………………………………………….6 3. Introduction 3.1 The spelling of Swiss names ………………………………………………….6 3.2 Swiss origine of arrivals………………………………………………………..7 3.3 Location of Swiss at the Cape…………………………………………………..8 3.4 Local currency …………………………………………………………………8 3.5 Glossary ………………………………………………………………………..8 4. Short history of arrivals during Company rule 1652-1795 4.1 Establishment of the settlement at the Cape…………………………………….10 4.2 The voyage to the Cape …………………………………………………………10 4.3 Company servants……………………………………………………………….12 4.4 Swiss labour migration to the Netherlands ……………………………………..12 4.5 Recruitment for the Company …………………………………………………..17 4.6 In Company service …………………………………………………………….17 4.7 Freemen………………………………………………………………………….22 4.8 Crime and punishment ………………………………………….…………….. 25 4.9 The Swiss Regiment Meuron at the Cape 1783-1795 …………………………..26 4.10 The end of the Dutch East India Company ……………………………………..29 4.11 Their names live on …………………………………………………………….29 5. Summary of Swiss arrivals during First British Occupation 1695-1803…………….29 6. Summary of Swiss arrivals during Batavian rule 1803-1806 ………………………30 7. Summary of Swiss arrivals during first fourteen years of British colonial rule, 1806-1819……………………………………………………………………………30 8. Personalia 1652-1819 ……………………………………………………………….31 9. Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………..120 10.Index to Swiss names ……………………………………………………………..131 2
1. PROLOGUE Messrs Felix Ernst and Kurt Scheurer initiated the documentation of the Swiss in Southern Africa with a preliminary publication in 1977. Messrs. Oskar Berner and Adolphe Linder continued the work with more detailed publications covering the Province of Cape of Good Hope (now the Provinces of Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape), the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the former South West Africa (now Namibia). This work documents the Swiss in the whole of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. List of previous publications 1. F. Ernst & K. Scheurer: History of the Swiss in Southern Africa 1652-1977. First edition (Johannesburg, 1977), second edition (Johannesburg, Nov. 1979). 2. Oscar T. Berner: Schweizer im einstigen Rhodesien. Biographische Notizen. Basel 1985. 3. Adolphe Linder: The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1971. Basel 1997. 4. Oskar T. Berner: Die Schweizer im ehemaligen Südwestafrika / The Swiss in the former South West Africa. Windhoek 1998. 5. Adolphe Linder: Die Schweizer in Mosambik 1721-1990. Cape Town 1998. 6. Adolphe Linder: The Swiss Regiment Meuron at the Cape and afterwards, 1781-1816. Cape Town 2000. 7. Adolphe Linder: Os Suícos em Moçambique. Maputo 2001. 8. In preparation, Adolphe Linder: Die Schweizer und der Burenkrieg 1899-1902. 3
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Page 7 and 8: general reader. The following compa
Page 10 and 11: 4. SHORT HISTORY OF ARRIVALS DURING
Page 12 and 13: learned to love. Only ten are known
Page 15: Dutch army. His grandson served as
Page 18 and 19: TABLE 6 Showing the number of Swiss
Page 20 and 21: Key River where they encountered th
Page 22 and 23: shoemakers’assistants, farm hands
Page 24 and 25: Jan Sausche of Rougemont VD bought
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Page 28 and 29: All the lieutenants and junior offi
Page 30 and 31: Swiss settler, Christiaan Orffer of
Page 32 and 33: Scheer / Schersliefer, Samuel born
Page 34 and 35: Phlegel, Nicolas (also recorded as
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Page 38 and 39: Commissioner De Mist and the German
Page 40 and 41: the Huguenot brothers Guillaume and
Page 42 and 43: In 1700 he is recorded with wife Be
Page 44 and 45: of Jan Oberholster of Zurich. Doubt
Page 46 and 47: Assenburgh, who placed him under ar
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Meynraad, Jan Leenert born Schaffha
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After a lapse of six months during
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The children: 1. Charl Christoffel
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1752 dairyman, 1753-1757 corporal s
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in the open, 160 sheep and ten drau
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Winger /Minger Nicolaas born Berne
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when his fraud would be exposed, bu
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Superbiller, Jan Coenraad born Appe
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he submitted a list of provisions r
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Cobie, Samuel born Berne [Kübli of
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kitchen utensils to Claas Jonge and
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KAB, MR 1758, 1760-1761; NL, MR 175
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Weis / Weys, Jan born Solothurn [Wy
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Pieters, Pieter born Zurich [Peter?
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of the prospective mutineers was se
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Married 1.7.1783 Maria Catharina, d
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11.George Egbertus born 1792, gaole
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8. Petrus Johannes born 1792. 9. An
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Meynderts, Jan born Basel, arrived
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7. Possibly a son, William, not bap
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Locher, Frans born Bothen ZH [Boden
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was compensated for the loss of a h
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18.3.1801, and remained in London u
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geschichte, pp. 185-189; 2 KAB, BO
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KAB, DO ZK 8/4/1 T dated in favour
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Stein, Jean-Gottlieb (de) born TG.
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Bertram, Andries born GR, arrived 1
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Baarth, Johan Adam born “Herbroek
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Hibelen, Francois born Bern [Hieble
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Haupt, Daniel Jacob, “obviously a
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therein by his friend Bernardus La
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and merchant, and served as Mayor.
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3. Johannes Pierre Francois born 18
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following year married Johanna Geer
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Coetzee, Marylin: Line of Descent o
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Roulet, Louis-Edouard: Jean-Pierre
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CO = Colonial Office CO 333 Letters
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RLR 14, Licences: Loan Farms. T = D
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Schweizerische Landesbibliothek. Sc
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10. INDEX TO SWISS NAMES Names in r
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Charlet, 41 Chatillon, Nicolaas Jos
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Freene, Hendrik, 20, 22, 24, 59, 64
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Humard, 75 Hungerbüller, 72 Hypze,
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Mäglin, 53 Mangaaven, Pieter, 69 M
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Pitselaar, Johann, 60, 62, 64, 67 P
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Sergeans, Louis / Charles-Louis, 10
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Waser / Waasen, Rudolf, 81 Weber, 6
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