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• Roepnaam is François Rétif.
• Hij is geboren op 2 februari 1663 in Loir-et-CherMer, Blois, France.

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (73) toen kind (Anna Rossouw) werd geboren (??-??-1736).

• Hij is gedoopt op 2 februari 1663 in Route de BloisLoir-et-Cher, Centre, France.
• Hij is overleden op 24 september 1721, hij was toen 58 jaar oudDrakenstein, Kaap.

  Let op: Was 9 maanden voor de geboorte (??-??-1736) van kind (Anna Rossouw) al overleden (24 september 1721).

• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1721.

  Let op: Was 9 maanden voor de geboorte (??-??-1736) van kind (Anna Rossouw) al begraven (??-??-1721).

• Een kind van Jacques Retief en Debora Joubert
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 6 oktober 2015.

Gezin van Francois /Retif "François Rétif" SV SV/PROG

Hij is getrouwd met Marie Mouy.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 2 mei 1700 te , hij was toen 37 jaar oudCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

Kind(eren):

1. Maria Retief  1702-1738 
2. Anna Retief  1704-> 1763 
3. Jacques Retief  ± 1706-????
4. Francois Retief  1708-1789 
5. Pierre Retief  < 1710-????
6. Paul Retief  1714-???? 
7. Pierre Retief  ± 1716-1800
8. Hester Retief  1719-1805 
9. Magdalena Retief  1720-1817 
10. Hugo Retief  
11. Anna Rossouw  1736-????

Notities over Francois /Retif "François Rétif" SV SV/PROG

{geni:occupation} Farmer- Wamakersvallei- La Paris Klein Drakenstein

{geni:about_me} Jacobus Retief was a farmer near Wellington, his original farm was called “Soetendal”. He also bought the farm “Welvanpas”, formerly known as “De Krakeelhoek” which belonged to his grandmother Maria Mouij, of whom presently. He had eleven children. His father, Francois Retief, was the eldest son of the founding father of the Retief clan in South Africa, Hugenot emigrant '''Francois Retif Snr. (1663-1721). This Francois Retief fled Mer in Blois, France during the recriminations of King Louis XIV with his young sister to Holland. Since the Dutch were looking for settlers for the Cape, they joined and arrived in Cape Town in 1688. He bought a farm and called it “Le Paris” on the northern banks of the Berg River near Wemmershoek. He married Maria Mouij, (1685-?, daughter of Pierre Mouij, also of France.), 23 years his junior.'''
http://ancestry24.com/henning-pretorius/

'''1st Gen. Stamouer Francois RETIF'''

Francois Retif was born 2 February 1663 in Mer, along the Loire river in France Mer is a small tow about 15kms from Blois, a major centre in the Loire valley. When the Edict of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685 the persecution of Protestant Huguenots intensified and Francois and his siSter Anne fled first to Holland and then to the Cape.They probably came via Switzerland, because he was recorded on arrival at the Cape as 'francois retijff d’Switser'.

When Francois and his sister Anne left France they would have been 17 and 13 respectively at the tie. As refugees, an invitation to emigrate to the Cape with a Mediterranean climate and the prospect of their own land would have been attractive, and they undertook the perilous journey to the Cape. They embarked on the fluteship Borssenburg at Texel, an island off Holland on a bitter 6 January in 1688, and arrived at the Cape about 4 months later on 12 May, a beautiful autumn day. Governor Simon van der Stel allocated farms of 60 morgen (3) in the Drakenstein valley. A year earlier land was allocated in that area to Dutch locals and the French refugees received what was left, which was not good for farming. Much of the land was rocky or swampy and of the 60 morgen often only about six could be tilled. Being unmarried Francois received less assistance than married couples – he had to share a plough, an iron pot, lead, rifles and shot for hunting and basics for the kitchen. He erected a basic structure of wattle and daub with a thatch roof and no glass for windows. The land had to be cleared for crops and they had to contend with marauding locusts, baboons, hippos, trampling crops at night and ‘wolves’(hyenas) raiding livestock. Life was not easy. About a year after their arrival, Anne Retif married Pierre Rousseau who had also been a passenger on the Borssenburg and who came from Mer or a neighbouring town, Menars-la-Ville. The new minister, dominie Simond took up the plight of the Huguenots with the governor, and they were allocated new and better land on both sides of the Berg River. Francois and his sister Anne and her husband had adjoining farms, which they called La Paris and L’Arc d’Orleans. Nostalgic and somewhat grand names for what was at that stage very humble settlements. In 1699, eleven years after Francois and Anne came to the Cape, Pierre Mouy and his two young daughters, Marié 14, and Jeanne 13, arrived in the Donkervliet in Table Bay. Pierre looked for a place of his own and, as a relatively late‐comer, had to move deeper into the mountain valley where, close to the Val du Charron, or Wagenmakersvallei he found suitable land watered by a constant stream from the Hawequa Mountains. Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel allocated the land but soon Pierre was in strife with a counter claim from neighbour Jan Lourens of Rostock. The dispute was eventually settled and Pierre named his farm De Krakeelhoek . (At a later stage the Retief family acquired this farm, which by then was called Welvanpas.)

http://family.morkel.net/wp-content/uploads/Retief-pt-1-reconstructed-pdf.pdf

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RETIEF

Francois RETIEF or RETIF, fr. Mer, nr, Blois (France), b. 2.2.1683. Arr. 1688, later farmer in Wagenmakersvalley (now Wellington), d. 24.9.1721. Marr. 2.5.1700 Maria MOUY, b. 15.5.1685, d. 21.9.1758 (9 children).

Source: Heraldry of South African Families / Coats of arms, crests, ancestry. C. PAMA and A. A. BALKEMA. Pg. 248.

Added by Y. DROST, 17 JAN 2013.

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http://www.welvanpas.co.za/index.php/history/a-brief-history
http://www.archivalplatform.org/blog/entry/helene_retief/

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