De Villiers book complete but incorrect

Finally, the management of the Huguenot Memorial Museum should be told how
much it is appreciated that they entrusted to us a manuscript on which the
museum staff had worked for almost a decade and a half. For that reason it was
decided that any surplus which may result from this publication would be donated
to the Museum as a nest-egg for a fund to continue its genealogical work.
For all our present readers, and those of future decades and even centuries, my
wish is: Become acquainted with your ancestors and enjoy your reading in the
process.
D.P. de Villiers
Chairman
DE VILLIERS TRUST FUND
Stellenbosch, January 1997
Introduction
For many years Dr. Con de Villiers visited the Huguenot Memorial Museum on
Wednesdays to research the de Villiers family in the Museum archives. The
Museum staff who assisted him to obtain the information he required, Mesdames
Annelize Kriel and Rochelle Roux, recall his interesting anecdotes and the
delicious koeksisters which he always brought along.
Dr. Con, who died on 25 November 1978, bequeathed all his research notes (in
Afrikaans) on the de Villiers family to the Huguenot Memorial Museum on
condition that his research be published. This bequest gave the Museum the
opportunity to consolidate the genealogical details of an important Huguenot
family. In 1980 the Board of Trustees of the Museum resolved that the research
be continued by the staff and prepared for publication.
Initially the objective was to finish the manuscript for the Huguenot 300 festivities
in 1988, but it soon became clear that much more would have to be done than
merely check the work of Dr. Con. The two standard genealogical works on the
de Villiers family - C.C. de Villiers and C. Pama's Genealogies of old S.A.
Families and D.P. de Villiers's A History of the De Villiers Family -proved to have
many shortcomings. For the next fifteen years, the members of the staff, in
addition to their museum work, collected, processed, and checked the
information required and typed the manuscript on the computor.
In 1980 the original handwritten manuscript (1 567 pages) was photocopied in
the offices of the Department of Nature Conservation and Environment Affairs in
Cape Town for use as draft copies.
Dr. Con collected his information by corresponding with the members of the de
Villiers family and by visiting cemeteries (in which he had a great interest). He
maintained that church records and the death notices in the Master's Office were
not always reliable and he consequently seldom made use of archival sources.
Our personal experience, however, is that these days people do not have an
intimate knowledge of their families. We therefore deemed it necessary to gather
all the available information from archival sources, which yielded much that was
new.
We came across children of the progenitors not noted in the standard
genealogical works and realised that in some cases the order of the children
should be altered. This also applies to later generations. It is therefore quite
possible that a specific genealogical number given to a person in this publication
may differ from that in previous publications.
All the new information from archival sources and family register forms made it
possible for us to check and rewrite Dr. Con's manuscript, which covered the
years up to and including 1976, and to extend it up to the year 1980 (in some
cases even further). Unfortunately Dr. Con's unique use of the Afrikaans