Family tree Jurrien Hoove » Jacques / Jacob de Villiers (1661-1735)

Personal data Jacques / Jacob de Villiers 

• He was born in the year 1661 in St Jean d' Angely, La Rochelle, France.
• Immigrated in the year 1685 vanuit France.

  to South Africa via the Netherland. Travelled with free passage on the Zion to the South African Cape by the Dutch East India Company.

• Profession: Wingerdboer. (Wine Farmer).
• Nationality: French.
• Religion: Protestant.
• He died on May 17, 1735 in Boschendal, Paarl, South Africa, he was 74 years old.
• He is buried on May 17, 1735 in Boschendal, Paarl, South Africa.
• A child of Pierre de Villiers and Elizabeth Secault

Household of Jacques / Jacob de Villiers

He is married to Marguerite Gardiol.

They got married about 1690.

Child(ren):

1. Suzanne / Susanna de Villiers  1693-1770 
2. Marie Elisabeth de Villiers  1695-1731 
3. Johanna de Villiers  1697-1763 
4. Jacobus de Villiers  1703-????
5. David de Villiers  1704-1770
6. Margaretha / Margarite de Villiers  1705-1776 
7. Abraham de Villiers  1707-1763 
8. Rachel de Villiers  1710-1762 
9. Isaac de Villiers  1712-????
10. Jan de Villiers  1717-1796 

Notes about Jacques / Jacob de Villiers

STAMVADER: Jacques (Jacob) de VILLIERS, gebore omstreeks 1661, van La Rochelle, daar word gereken dat hulle oorspronklik eintlik van Boergondië gekom het. Met ander woorde hulle het toe via La Rochelle gevlug. Hulle was Franse Hugenote wat in 1689 op die Zion uitgekom het saam met sy broers Abraham (wat net dogters nagelaat het) en Pierre. Jacob was getroud met Marguerite GARDIOL van Provence, en is op 17 May 1735 oorlede. Hy was gevestig te La Brie (1694), Franschoek, en later Boschendal (1717). Hy het 6 seuns en 5 dogters nagelaat.

1. Jan, jonk+

2. Susanna x 9 Jan 1718 Pieter Roux. Op 22 Oct 1735 koop hy La Brie uit sy skoonpa se boedel, en Bourgogne na die dood van die stamvader Pierre.

3. Marie Elisabeth ~ 14 Nov 1695 x 15 Aug 1718 Stephanus Marais

4. Janne ~ 6 Oct 1695 x 11 Dec 1729 Willem Adolph Krige

5. Jacobus * 14 Sep 1699 + 1735, plase Nieuwedorp en De Goede Hoop x 1724/5 Louise Joubert weduwee van Jan Lombard

6. David + 1770, boer Vrede en Lust, La Motte en Zion x 17 Nov 1726 Madeleine (Magdalena) de Villiers xx 17 May 1750 Elisabeth Hugo

7. Margaretha ~ 9 Aug 1705 x 25 Feb 1725 Gideon Joubert xx 9 Oct 1740 Heinrich Hoppe van Hamburg

8. Abraham ~ 2 Oct 1707 + 5 Jun 1763 boer De Goede Hoop en Rhenosterrug x 29 May 1735 Susanna Joubert xx 31 Nov 1737 Johanna Lombard

9. Rachel x 9 Oct 1729 Jacob Hugo xx 22 Sep 1748 Hendrik Francois Moller

10. Jean (Jan) ~ 21 March 1717 +1796 erf Bosch en Dal, besit ook Dwars in de Weg, Stellenbosch en Normandie x 16 March 1738 Elisabeth Joubert xx 5 Dec 1762 Gertruida du Toit

11. Izaak ~ 12 March 1719

Bron: SA Stamouer webwerf (AM van Rensburg)

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Pierre Abraham and Jacques were the founders of the de Villiers clan in South Africa.

They fled France to escape religious persecution after the revocation of the Edit of Nantes in 1685.

They fled their family wine farm at Niort, near La Rochelle in France, for the Netherlands leaving behind their parents, Pierre (de) Villiers and Elizabeth Secault, and younger brother Paul. The three brothers were given free passage to South Africa on the Dutch East India Company ship the ZION arriving at the Cape in 1686 when Jacques (the youngest of the three brothers) was 25 years old.

Jacques, who started signing his name Jacob soon after his arrival at the Cape, married Marguerite Gardiol, who also started signing her name as Margaretha. She was born at La Coste, Provence in France on 2.10.1670 and arrived at the Cape with her sister Susanne, and her mother Maguerite Perodette in 1689.

Initially the three de Villiers brothers shared a 60 morgen farm at Franche Hoek (or French Corner, so called because of the number of other French Huguenots already settled there).

Five years after their arrival their dilligence came to the notice of the Governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel and they were each granted their own farm. Jacques (Jacob named his La Brie.

By 1716 the brothers were prosperous farmers and had between them reared 20 children. They started looking for additional properties and Abraham acquired the farm Boschendaal, the spelling of which was later changed to Boschendal. Abraham only had two sons, one of whom died in infancy and the other was a cripple, who also died young. This decided him to bequeath Boschendal to his brothewr Jacques (Jacob)) our forebear.

Jacques fathered 12 children His youngest child Jean, who called himself Jan inherited Boschendal

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