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| Nicknames: | "Catherine Marais; Catherine des Ruelle; Tabourdeaux" |
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| Birthplace: | France, Plessis Merle |
| Death: | Died in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa |
| Occupation: | Married 1660 |
| Managed by: | Judith Susanna Hendrika 5 Marais b2c1d6e5f2g7h7i12j2 |
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'n Voorhuwelikse kontrak is om 12H00 op 24 Augustus 1659 tussen Charles Marais en Catherine Tabourdeaux in die huis van die Tabourdeaux-gesin onderteken.
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Judi Marais-Meyer register -MARAIS
D Catryn. Frankryk
Catherine arrived with her husband and 4 children in Cape Town. They first went to Netherland before going to Saldanha Bay and then the Cape.
Ships Carrying Huguenots to South Africa
Ships Passenger List for Huguenot Ship Voorschotten to South Africa 1687
Voorschotten - first ship to leave Holland with French refugees, Part of the autumnal fleet - sailing with this ship were Borssenburg, Oosterland, De Schelde, Berg China, Zuid-Beveland and Wapen van Alkmaar.
Voorschotten - from Delftshaven, Zeeland, NE, December 31, 1687 - flyboat with 3 masts and a rounded hull, 130 Dutch feet long - capable of carrying 150 people, captain Fs. Vellerius (Valerius) April 13, 1688 arrived at Saldanha Bay, transferred to ship Jupiter and April 26, 1688 arrived at Table Bay with 192 people
Anne Souchay
Charles Marais from Plessis, France -
Catharina Taboureux Marais
Claude Marais - 24
Charles Marais - 19
Isaac Marais - 10
Marie Marais - 6
Philippe Fouche
Anne Fouche
Anne Fouche - 6
Esther Fouche - 5
Jacques Fouche - 3
Marguerite Basche Bruere - 23
Estienne Bruere, wagon-builder - 23
Jacques Pinard - 23 - carpenter
Esther Fouche Pinard - 21
Pierre Sabatie, from Marriere - 23
Jean Leroux - 21
Gideon Malherbe - 25
Marie Grillon Malherbe
Jean Paste - 25
Paul Godefroy - 22
Gasper Flouche - 21
Gabriel Le Roux - 17
22 Huguenots
Source:Coertzen, Pieter - "The Huguenots of South Africa 1688-1988", Tafelberg Publishers Limited, Cape Town, 1988
Contributor June 19, 1999 Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden
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August 24, 1659
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France, Plessis Merle
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August 24, 1659
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Rouillon, France
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| 1662 |
December 10, 1662
Age 3
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Plesis Merle, France, Paris
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." |
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| 1668 |
1668
Age 8
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Le Plessis Merle, Hurepoix, France
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| 1677 |
1677
Age 17
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Europe
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| 1681 |
1681
Age 21
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Longvillers, France
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| 1687 |
December 31, 1687
Age 28
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Delftshaven, Netherlands
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December 31, 1687
- April 13, 1688
Age 28
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South Africa
http://www.geni.com/projects/South-African-Stamouers-Progenitors-Ma... The VOORSCHOTEN sailed from Delft (Delfthaven) on 31 December 1687 and arrived at Saldanha Bay, South Africa on 13 April 1688.
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| 1690 |
1690
Age 30
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Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa
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| 1729 |
1729
Age 69
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Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa
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