The family immigrated to South Africa in 1858 under the British Immigration Scheme (Agricultural settlers) to British Kaffraria. Boarding the "La Rochelle" at Hamburg and sailing for South Africa on the 31 May 1858, arriving at (Panmure) East London on the 28 August 1858 and the family took up their allotted 35 acres of land at Ohlsen, near Stutterheim, in the Eastern Cape.

The La Rochelle (named after the French city from which the Huguenot Godeffroy family had fled to Berlin before settling in Hamburg in 1737) was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built by Godeffroy at Reiherstieg, Hamburg; Bielbrief 21 May 1855 350 Commerzlasten/738 net register tons; 52,44 x 9,22 x 6,35 meters (length x beam x depth of hold).

From: Altheim, Baden, Germany

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