Ancestors

 

The Huguenot monument in Franschhoek (the Huguenots fled religious persecution in France, and many settled in the Cape). Today, many Afrikaner names show their French origins…and I’m one of  those “many” South Africans! I’m busy with  a family-history-study of my ancestors….and this is what I’ve found so far… this post will get updated as I find more information. Most links in this post will open in a new window.

 

Read HERE MORE about the French Huguenots that settled in South Africa.

Jan.09 update: Please follow this link if your surname is Celliers/Cilliers/Cillie…etc.

http://www.myheritage.com/site-33834231/cilliers-family-web-site

Josue Cellier, b. 1667, Orleans, France

Another record…Josube Cellier, b 1676, Orleans, France..

Click on THIS LINK to use the search facility to find ancestors…..
On Olivetree HERE you can see more passenger-lists…Please click HERE for more information on the France Huguenots that came to South Africa.
And on THIS LINK you can read  more about the Religion War and French Huguenots…
This LINK HERE is a passenger ship-list of Huguenots that arrived in South Africa between 1683 and 1756.

Ships that arrived at Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa in 1852

SearchTHIS SITE for more information on these records.

 

 

The REYGERSDAL arrived at Table Bay in 1700…passengers on the ship, click on the image for a clear, larger view.

NOTES:
1. Married (2) Paul Roux in 1722

2.Brother of Elizabeth Couvret. He returned to Europe in 1712 with his wife and 4 children.

 

image….  stellendrift.co.za..

Huguenot ships that arrived in South Africa between 1686 and 1726
Search THIS LINK for Huguenots from Holland.

Ships Carrying Huguenots to South Africa

Ships Passenger List for Huguenot Ship Reijgersdaal to South Africa 1700

Belonged to the Chamber of Delft. Captain Martin de Jeught, arrived in 1700.

• Paul Couvret and Anne Valette
• daughter Couvret
• Josué Cellier and Elisabeth Couvret
• Elisabeth Pochot

Sources: mostly Appendix 2 of “Hugenotebloed in ons are” by J.G. le Roux (1992; ISBN 0-7969-0566-5) and “French speakers at the Cape” by M. Boucher (1981, ISBN 0-86981-222-X)
Source: olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/sahug19.shtml

 

This wooden three-master of 744 tons, built in New Brunswick in 1849, was not of course a Byrne ship but the replacement for the Pallas, the vessel chartered by Henry Boast for his Yorkshire party and condemned as unseaworthy on the eve of sailing. This unsuspected setback threw a number of the poorer emigrants on Henry Boast’s hands, since they had committed themselves by disposing of their homes etc. From April until July they waited in Hull until J. Rylands the shipowner supplied his new ship Haidee for the voyage to Natal. Boast was found liable by a magistrate’s court for their maintenance and bravely faced this commitment from his own funds which, unfortunately, were soon exhausted. The vexation and worry caused his death in May from brain-fever before the Haidee sailed, but his wife Mary, a new widow with three little girls, bravely took over her husband’s task and accompanied the party of 246 emigrants to Natal. Only eight or nine of the original party backed out. On 10 July 1850 the Haidee sailed, with a send-off from many Hull well-wishers. She arrived off the Bluff on 7 October 1850 after a pleasant voyage. The Haidee’s end was a tragic but not unusual one for the ships of her day. On 19 April 1863 she was lost in mid-ocean.
Read on THIS LINK more about Haidee….
If you have a similar surname, please click HERE to join this project! You should be a male only! sad..I can’t join…