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1752 dairyman, 1753-1757 corporal stationed on Robben Island. / KAB, MR 1739- 1742, 1747-1748, 1750-1756; NL, ARA, MR 1739-1740, 1742-1743, 1745, 1747-1755 and 1757. Giller(s), Michael born St. Gall [Killer of St. Gall SG?], arrived 13.9.1738 on Leiduin for Kamer Edam. 1738-1745 soldier, / KAB, MR 1739-1742; NL, ARA, MR 1739-1740 and 1745. Switser, Jan Willem born Baatsbergen [Schwitzer of Beatenberg BE?], arrived 25.10.1738 on Papenburg for Kamer Amtserdam. 1739-1742 soldier, 1742 stationed at the battery at Salt River. / KAB, MR 1739, 1741-1742; NL, ARA, MR 1739-1740 and 1742. Keyser, Jan Frederik born Switzerland [Kaiser? 1739 sailor, sick. / KAB, MR 1739. Wolfensberg(en), Hendrik born Zurich, arrived 16.10.1739 on Huis te Marquette for Kamer Amsterdam. 1740 blacksmith, 1741-1747 brass-foundryman with pay in 1742 fl 14, in 1745 fl 18. / KAB, MR 1740-1742, 1747; NL, ARA, MR 1740, 1742-1743, 1745 and 1747. Kesler /Seester, Jan Georg born Basel [Kessler of BS or BL]. 1740 cook, sick. / KAB, MR 1740; NL, ARA, MR 1740. Claas, Hendrik born Glarus [Claus of GR or Klaus?], arrived 20.1.1740 on Vreeland for Kamer Amsterdam. 1740-1743 soldier. / NL, ARA, MR 1743. Smit, Juriaan born Chur GR [Schmid?], arrived 20.2.1740 on Wickenburg for Kamer Zeeland. 1740-1742 builder’s carpenter with pay in 1741 fl 14, 1743 cattle-herd, 1 1.9.1744-1.9.1747 loaned to Anthony Visser at fl 24 per month. 2 / 1 KAB, MR 1741; NL, ARA, MR 1740, 1742-1743; 2 KAB, CJ 2889: 27 (S). Snyder, Johannes born Schaffhausen [Schneider?], arrived 20.2.1740 on Huis ten Spijk for Kamer Edam. 1740 soldier at the Castle, 1741-1745 stationed at Rietvalley on the Buffeljagd River (now Swellendam). 1 1745-1747 loaned to burgher Pieter van Taak, 2 1747-1750 loaned to farmer Tobias Moster 3 and 1750-1752 loaned as farmhand to the widow Hendrik Hop. 4 / KAB, MR 1740-1743 and 1745; KAB, CJ 2889: 50; 3 KAB, CJ 2890: 10, KAB, CJ 2891: 38. Bessiere, Isaie born Lausanne VD [Bessire of Pery BE?], gunnery officer on the Huis te Rensburg which rounded the Cape in 1741. / Boucher: French speakers, p. 297. Rediger, Joost Hendrik born “Lennis” [Luins VD?]. 1741 soldier, sick, 1742 wagondriver. / KAB, MR 1741-1742. Steyger, Jacob born Switzerland [Steiger?], arrived 25.1.1741 on Amsterdam for Kamer Amsterdam. 1741 sick, 1742-1745 soldier. / KAB, MR 1741-1742, 1745; NL, ARA MR 1743. Pebler, Jan Hendrik born Glarus [Bäbler of Elm or Matt GL?], arrived 18.5.1741 on Gunsterstijn for Kamer Amsterdam. 1741 sick, 1742 soldier. / KAB, MR 1741-1742. Breeker, Jacon born Zurich [Bregger?], arrived 2.8.1741 on Woitkensdorp for Kamer Zeeland. 1741-1745 soldier. / KAB, MR 1741-1742, 1745; NL, ARA, MR 1742-1743. Schalker, Casper [Schalcher, Hans Kaspar] baptised Wülflingen (Winterthur) ZH 24.2.1714, son of Abraham and Verena born Denzler in Schwamendingen ZH. 1 Arrived 25.1.1741 on Westhoven as soldier for Kamer Zeeland. 3 & 3 Coming from a then highly industrialised area he may have had a relatively good education, to which he added a lot 58
of know-how at the Cape in the service of former merchant Olaf de Wet 4 and Orphan Master Alexander Croese. 5 1749, eight years after his arrival, Schalker became a burgher and thenceforth was recorded as single man with gun and sword, 6 weapons which every burgher had to possess to be able to perform his military duties. Apparently he had no horse and no mention is made of his slave Thomas of Boegies whom he set free, albeit on condition that he remain a freeman in his service until death. 7 In 1762 Schalker moved to the Drakenstein District 8 where 19.8.1764 he married Maria Guillaumet, widow of Louis Jordan, owner of the farm Schoonoort. They settled on a plot of land at Paarl leaving the farm to her five sons. 9 Schalker seems to have earned his living as a sort of legal agent and shopkeeper as is evident by his signature as agent on a contract by which Hendrik Freene took service as a farmhand in 1765, 10 and by the inventory of his possessions 11 compiled after his death 6.1.1770. 12 The inventary lists a shopcounter and scales, plus an extensive stock of goods including items varying from 14 spades and 70 handkerchiefs to 53 cups and saucers, coffee, tea and sugar, 16 ell black satin, 45 knives and 100 feet of wooden planks. His personal items included a large Bible and 23 other books, 19 sheets of writing paper, 2 packs of playing cards and a silver pocketwatch. Everything was sold by public auction on 12.3.1770, realising 702 rixdalers and 5 stuiwers. 13 Schalker left no descendants. / 1 CH, Zurich, Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich, Todeseintrag im Totenbuch von Wülflingen zwischen 20. und 23. Januar 1771; 2 Leibbrandt: Requesten 1748: 111; 3 KAB, MR 1742, 1747, 1748; 4 KAB, CJ 2888: 93; 5 KAB, CJ 2889: 36; 6 KAB, MR Freemen 1749, 1751-1756, 1756-1762; 7 Leibbrandt: Requesten 1761: 77; 8 KAB, MR Freemen 1763-1770; 9 KAB, DO, T4146, 5.3.1767 from Abraham de Vries; 10 KAB, CJ2900: 81; 11 KAB, MOOC 3/11/7:52; 12 KAB, MOOC 6/1, p. 67; 13 KAB, MOOC 10/10. Sausche, Jan born Rougemont VD [Saugy, Jean?], arrived 8.12.1741 on Meerlust as a corporal for Kamer Edam 1 but was used as a blacksmith. 2 In 1745 he was loaned for two years to former Burgher Councillor Fred. Rossouw, 3 after which he became a burgher 4 living in the Cape District and having in 1751 a slave servant, gun and sword. 5 A year later he was owner of the farm De Vleesbank east of Hermon in extent 51,2 hectares. 6 Sauche’s birthplace lies in the Alps only a few kilometres from Gstaad. He must have been happy in his new home surrounded by the Boland mountains. He did not live to enjoy his new home for long. In March 1756 he was no more. 7 The inventory taken after his death indicates that he confined his farming activity to animal husbandry, relying for a living on his work as a blacksmith, assisted by a soldier loaned from the Company. 8 He left the working of the land to another, described as “the young Schoeman”, for a half-share of the harvest. The inventory 7 describes the buildings and lists the contents of each room. The buildings would have been built from materials found locally, using stone and clay for walls which were probably not higher than two metres, wood for rafters, bamboo and thatch for the roof. Only the front entrance would be secured by a door and each room would have only one small window not larger 500 mm square with no glass panes, only wooden shutters to keep out wind and cold. Floors were made of compacted clay mixed with cow dung to give them a soft texture. The living room contained amongst others, one old sideboard, one bed, an old mirror, a table and five chairs; the kitchen a shelf with three tin plates, a three-legged iron cooking-pot, a copper kettle, three water buckets and a wooden kist; the loft two bags of salt; the shed not much more than a few empty bags of sailcloth; the coal shed some charcoal and some pieces of cut wood; the smithy contained adequate though largely old equipment; and the stable seven horses. In addition he had an old ox-wagon, an old horse cart and farming equipment left standing 59
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ADOLPHE LINDER THE SWISS IN SOUTHER
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1. PROLOGUE Messrs Felix Ernst and
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
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Page 22 and 23: shoemakers’assistants, farm hands
Page 24 and 25: Jan Sausche of Rougemont VD bought
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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
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Page 48 and 49: Stellenbosch farm Uitkyk, 51,8 ha.,
Page 50 and 51: permission to start a business. 5 O
Page 52 and 53: Meynraad, Jan Leenert born Schaffha
Page 54 and 55: After a lapse of six months during
Page 56 and 57: The children: 1. Charl Christoffel
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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 70 and 71: Cobie, Samuel born Berne [Kübli of
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
Page 86 and 87: 8. Petrus Johannes born 1792. 9. An
Page 88 and 89: Meynderts, Jan born Basel, arrived
Page 91 and 92: 7. Possibly a son, William, not bap
Page 93 and 94: Locher, Frans born Bothen ZH [Boden
Page 95 and 96: was compensated for the loss of a h
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Page 101 and 102: KAB, DO ZK 8/4/1 T dated in favour
Page 103 and 104: Stein, Jean-Gottlieb (de) born TG.
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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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