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In 1700 he is recorded with wife Belie Jansz and two sons 1 & 4 whose names do not
appear in any church register, possibly because Belie Jansz was not accepted as a
member of the Cape community.
When Adam Tas travelled around the district in 1706 drumming up support against
Governor W.A. van der Stel who he accused of financial corruption and unscrupulous
use of patronage, he also called on Mulder at Keerweeder. Adam Tas described the road
leading to his remote farm as wretched and the bumpiest he had ever seen. 5 Mulder was
then no longer the owner of Keerweeder, having sold it in 1700, 6 possibly because he
was becoming old and sickly, the reason for which he was excused from military
service in the Stellenbosch burgher force during the years 1702 to 1712. 7 No further
information could be found about him. He may have died in 1712.
/ 1 KAB, VC 30, MR Free Persons 1690 lists two persons named Hendrik Mulder, one
of whom might apply; 2 KAB, DO, Grant ISV 399, 9.1.1695; 3 KAB, VC 49, MR Free
Persons 1700; 4 KAB, A2250 Citizen Roll Stellenbosch 1700; 5 Fouche and Boëseken:
The Diary of Adam Tas, 191.1.1706 and 21.1.1706; 6 KAB, DO T533; 7 KAB,
1/STB/13/21 MR Stellenbosch and Drakenstein 1702-1712.
A HUGUENOT SETTLER BORN IN TRANSIT IF GENEVA
Gauch, Jacob Etienne [Gauche?], here known as Steven Gous, may have been born in
1683 or 1684 at Celigny GE. His parents, Huguenot refugees from the Pays de Gex,
Andre Gauch born at Le Pont-de-Monvert and Jacqueline Decré born at Sauverny, were
married 13.1.1683 at Celigny GE and reached the Netherlands with their first born,
Jacob Etienne. They joined the Walloon church at Amsterdam on 16.4.1690 where a
month later their daughter Mary was baptised. Shortly after they embarked on the
Spierdijk. Father and son reached the Cape alone on 5.4.1691, mother and sister
probably having died during the voyage. 1 At the Huguenot Museum, Franschhoek,
Steven ist listed as Gauch Etienne, Geneva 1691.
27.2.1718 Steven married Catharine Bok, a former slave girl aged 13, by whom he
had seven children, the last born in 1740. 2 His father had been a blacksmith but Steven
took to farming and when his widow died in 1767 she could bequeath to her youngest
son the farms Berg en Dal on the Deep River situated halfway between the present
hamlets of Philadelphia and Kalbaskraal, and Klipheuvel on the Groen River, plus
12 000 gulden in cash. 3
/ 1 Boucher: French speakers; 2 Cairns: The children of Bok and Geringer; 3 KAB, CJ
2668:34.
Wolf, Jacob born Berne on unknown date, 1693 soldier. / KAB, MR 1693.
Willemsz, Hans Andries born Basel. [Wilhem?] 1693 cadet and in the same year
became burgher; 1695-1698 in Drakenstein district. / 1 NL, ARA, VOC 4030 MR 1693;
2 KAB, VC39: MR Free Persons 1693-1698; 3 KAB, A2250 Citizen Roll 1695.
Bartelsz, Baltus born Breed/Breedin in Switzerland. [Britten SO?] 1693-1700 soldier, 1
/ 1 KAB, MR 1693; 2 NL, ARA, VOC 4038/4043, MR 1693 and 1700.
Jurger, Barthalomeus born Portels SG, date of birth not known. Also known as Jan de
Switzer, 1693 soldier. 16.3.1696 burgher of Stellenboch, found guilty of illicit bartering
of cattle with Khoi and of harbouring criminals and deserters. Sentenced to being
severely scourged and branded, and banned for life to Mauritius, where he was quickly
released to earn his own living. 2 / 1 KAB, MR 1693 and NL, ARA, VOC 4030 MR
1693; 2 KAB, LM 13.
Levett, Jacques born Geneva [of Carouge GE ?], 1693 soldier.
/ KAB, MR 1693; NL, ARA, VOC 4030 MR 1693.
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