Pierre Jourdan “Cavalier” de La Roque d'Antheron; *ca.1620 La Roque d'Antheron x Susanna Pascal *ca.1637. The couple lived in Cabrières d'Aigues in Provence, France by 1661.

• i. Pierre Jourdan de Cabrière d'Aigues; *Cabrières d'Aigues 1661; Arrived on the ship “China” on 4 August 1688. Later owner of the farm Cabrière, church deacon, †28.10.1723.x Anna Fauche (Fouché), †1713 xx Maria Verdot, daughter of Hercule Verdot of La Roque d'Antheron, * ii. Anthoine *1669. Our best information is that he remained with his parents in France in 1687.

SOURCES

• Pierre was born ca. 1620 in La Roque d'Anthéron as son of Jehan Jourdan from La Roque and Jeanne Crespin ◦ SOURCE: Calculated from his age given at his 1685 abjuration below.
• Pierre married Susanne Pascal in 1659 in Cabrières d'Aigues ◦ SOURCE: The records of Notary Enjoubert of Pertuis; reference 3E 56/264 – folio 397.
• Pierre (then 65), his wife Susanne Pascal (then 48) and their two children Pierre (24) and Anthoine (16) abjured in Cabrières d'Aigues on 22 October 1685 in front of Notary Lafourest. ◦ SOURCE: The records of Notary Enjoubert of Pertuis; reference 3E 56/299.

* Son Anthoine married in 1695. In the marriage act dated 27 November 1695, Susanne Pascal, who was then already widowed, named Anthoine her heir. She documented the condition that, should her other son Pierre,who had been in the king's service for many years, still be alive and return home; then the inheritance was to be shared equally between her two sons. (Susanne would likely not have wanted to tell the authorities that son Pierre had fled to the Cape under the Protestant Dutch flag. The Luberon Protestants believed that Louis XIV would soon change his mind and they therefore saw exile as temporary. They expected those who fled to return home before long - Private communication, Virginia Belz Chomat)

◦ SOURCE: The records of Notary Enjoubert of Pertuis; reference 3E 56/302.

Sources

• 'Pierre de Cabrières and Pierre de Belle Etoile' by Harry Booyens