{geni:event_description} According to the Passenger List in Cape Town, Claude was 21 when he was on board the Voorschoten with his parents which makes his birth year 1667. The year ca 1662 is a date according to "Vroeë Geslagsregister van Kaapse families."
Arrived 1688. Owned the farms Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Plessi s Marle, Wel van Pas and a house in Cape Town.
Arrived 1688. Owned the farms Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Plessi s Marle, Wel van Pas and a house in Cape Town.
Arrived 1688. Owned the farms Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Plessi s Marle, Wel van Pas and a house in Cape Town.
Claude was 'n sukesvolle boer en gesiene man. Hy was reeds 22 jaar lank 'n wewenaar voordat hy met Suzanne Gardiol trou. Claude was in 1691 een van 3 ouderlinge van die Drakensteinse gemeente.
{geni:about_me} b1 “SA Genealogies” vol 5, Genealogical Institute of SA, Stellenbosch, 1999” page 424
Arrived in South Africa on board "Voorschoten" with his parents brothers and sister on 13 april 1688 at the age of 24, according to the Passenger list. The ship left in Dec 1687 and arrived in April 1688, therefore he would have been born in 1663.
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/sahug01.shtml
Claude was the owner of the farms Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Wel van Pas and owned a house in Cape Town.
Volgens die inventaris MOOC8/5.51 wat op 12/9/1729 opgeskryf is na die afsterwe van Susanna Gardiol, was haar man, burger Glaude Marais, en haar ses kinders met Abraham De Villiers haar erfgename.
Hy het toe gewoon in die huijs en erff gelegen in die Tafelvalleij.
Dan het hy ook 'n plaas negelaat Meerlust asook Lekkerwijn wat beide moeten aan de soon Jacob volgens huewelijkse voorwarde overgalaten werden.
Die plaas Plessi Marli gaan aan soons van Claude Marais genaamt Chales en Stefan(us) Marais en die plaas Wel van Pas en die huis in Tafelvalleij aan sy nagelate eggenoot.
Judi Marais-Meyer register.
Professionele navorser - Emerentia v Rensburg
Geslagregister van Vroeë Kaapse families - C C De Villiers.
Groot Afrikaanse familie Naamboek - Cor Pama.
Foto's by die Hugenote Sentrum.
Passasierslyste - Hugenote Sentrum
Plaas " Plaisir Merle" , Drakenstein Kaap.
Weesc K d GH verw no. MOOC8/5.51
Pegasis
Blignaut Navorsing
Privaat Navorsing
Pegisis Databasis
Claude was the owner of the following farms: Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Plessis merle, Wel van Pas and owned a house in Cape town. All his children was from his first marriage with Maria Avicè.
Claudes Estate Papers can be found in KAB MOOC Vol no 6/9/864 System 01, Part 1 Begin and ending 1917
His testamant is filed at KAB Source CJ Vol 2601 System 01, Ref 14 Part 1 Begin and end 1721.
Claude Marais owned Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Le Plessis Marle in Drakenstein; Wel van Pas inWagenmakersvallei, and Kykuit in Daljosafat (Paarl).
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Claude(24) ? arrived at Saldanha Bay with his family on the Voorschoten 13.4.1688. He married Marie Avice from Chateaudun, Orleans in 1690. On 13.10.1721 he married Suzanne Gardiolle from La Coste, Provence, in Cape Town. He owned a house in Cape Town in addition to the wine farms Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Le Plessis Marle and Wel-van-Pas.
He had 2 sons, Charles * 1694, who remained unmarried, Estienne (Stephanus) * 1696 who married Marie-Isabeau De Villiers 15.8.1718 at Paarl, and a daughter Marie * 1692 who married Pierre Taillefert
He and Isabeau de Villiers witnessed the baptism of Rachel Jùbert on 16 April 1730 Drakenstein, therefore he could not have died in 1929.
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'''French Refugees at the Cape, C.G.Botha, Cape Town, Cape Times Ltd, 1919'''
C416, Inkomende Brieven: Kamer Delft, Dec 19 1687, f.1013
Met dit schip’ staen mede van hier te gaen de volgende persoonen, die om de vervolginge tegens de waere gereformeerde Religie in Vrankrijk bij ons sijn overgekomen, die nu volgens Resolutie van de vergaderingh der Heeren 17 en ‘t reglement aen de Caep moeten werden geplaetst en als vrije luijden tot den lantbouw en andere hantwercken gebruijkt, wij recommandeeren U : E : deselve in alles behulpsaem te wesen waer aen de Compc in ‘t particulier en de kercks godsdienst sal geschieden-namentlijk
* Charles Marais uijt plessis in Vrankrijk
* Catarina Taboureux sijn huijsvrouw
* Claude Marais out 24 jaeren
* Charles Marais 19 jaeren
* Isaac Marais 10 laeren
* Marie Marais 6 jaeren
* der selver kinderen
Slaven
* 1 jonge gen:t Alie van Mallabaar
* 1 jonge gen:t Septemb:r van Mallabar
* 1 jonge gen:t Nero van Mallabar
* 1 jonge gen:t Alexander van Mallabar
* 1 jonge gen:t Jan van Batavia
* 1 jonge gen:t Andries van Bougis
* 1 jonge gen:t Salomon van Maccasser
* 1 jonge gen:t Pieter van Maccasser
* 1 jonge gen:t April van Bengalen
* 1 meijt gen:t Sara van Rio de La Goa
besit plase Meerlust, Lekkerwyn, Plessis Marle, Wel van Pas en 'n huis in Kaapstad
1715 proposed as Heemraad for Drakenstein and deacon of local church. Elder 1723. 1691 one of first deacons of French church. French army officer who helped Huguenots to escape. Continued farming La Plessis Marle after father's death. Also owned Lekkerwyn and Meerlust in Groot-Drakenstein, and Wel-van-Pas in Wamakersvallei, 28/2/1699. 1725 moved to Cape Town.
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