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About Jacobus de Villiers
Farmer at Nieuwe Dorp and De Goede Hoop in the Drakenstein district. On 22 Dec 1722 he was appointed as a deacon of the Drakenstein parish of the Church, and in 1724 he married Louisa Joubert.
Extract from DP de Villiers, A History of the De Villiers Family, Nationale Boekhandel Bpk, 1960:
Jacques de Villers' eldest son, Jean, died in infancy. Jacobus, the second son, baptised on 14.09.1699, married Louise Joubert, widow of Jan Lombard.
Nieuwedorp , a farm adjoining Goede Hoop, both Rhodes Fruit Farms at Groot Drakenstein today, was the home of Jacobus and Louise de Villiers. He died in 1734 at the age of 35 years. Why he died so young is not known. His will dated 20.01.1734 states that he was sick and in bed. I have a photo of an early Cape Dutch house, Nieuwedorp. It appears to have been an interim house, H-shaped with simple gables but with thick walls. The wall-cupboard from that house is now in the Lekkerwyn house, home of Mrs Pickstone. It is a beautiful example of early wall cupboards. This house has been demolished, and the Rhodes cottage is now standing approximately where this early de Villiers home once stood.
Jacobus and Louise had a family of four children. The eldest boy, Jacob, married Catherina Booysen, and is the ancestor of Brig JP de Villiers. Tielman Nieuwoudt de Villiers, first mayor of Pretoria, and Commissioner-General for the Transvaal Republic in Paris in 1889, and his brother Paul de Villiers, Treasurer-General of the same Republic, and Senator Bruckner de Villiers, were descendants of this branch.
The youngest son, Pieter, baptised on 23 June 1732 is that ancestor of mine who first owned La Provence in 1756. He married three times and had eighteen children!
Wife Louise Joubert b. b 6 Dec 1699, d. 1764
Children
- Margreta de Villiers+14 b. b 5 Jun 1725
- Jacob de Villiers15 b. b 6 Apr 1727
- Elizabeth de Villiers16 b. b 12 Mar 1730
- Pieter de Villiers17 b. b 22 Jun 1732
Genealogiese/Genealogical #: b5
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S A Geneaologies Volume 14 - suggest that there was a previous child Jacob who died young.
www.stamouers.com do not list this child.
Note: See the earlier Jacob's baptism entry on Jacobus 1 de Villiers, a3b5
Baptism
Baptism record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-W94W-2?i=332
NGK Drakenstein, Cape of Good Hope
1703. 29 ditto [April]. Jacob. d' Vader Jacob Villier, d' Moeder Margariet Gardiol. Getuijgen Estienne Viret, en Elisabet Villiers.
- Drakenstein Heemkring, compilers, Drakenstein I Baptisms., CD-ROM (Paarl) Drakenstein Heemkring, 2006, Baptism Register on http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/index.htm
Inventaris van alle goederen en effecten als ab intestato sijn naargelaaten en met ’er dood ontruijmt door Margaretha Gardiol wed:w wijlen Jacob Villiers d’ oude ten behoeve van haar onder te noemene soo kinderen als kindskinderen, sijnde de meerderjaarige kinderen, gen:t
- David
- Abraham en
- Jan Villiers, mitsgd:rs
- Susanna Villiers getrouwt met den landbouwer Pieter Roux
- Johanna Villiers gehuwt met den landbouwer Jurgen Jansz: Schoeman
- Margaretha Villiers thans wed:w Hendrik Hoppe
- Rachel Villiers getrouwt met den landbouwer Hendrik Moller, voorts
- de naarvolgende kindskinderen, als Margaretha Villiers getrouwt met den landbouwer Pieter de Bruijn
- Jacob
- Pieter en
- Elisabeth Villiers }deese drie thans nog minderjaarig bij representatie van wijlen hun vader Jacob Villiers, en eijndelijk
- Maria Marais gehuwt met den burger Petrus Johannes Bosman
- Jacob bijde reets meerderjaarige, en
- Susanna Marais
- Elisabeth en
- Margaretha Marias, thans nog minderjaarig bij plaatsvullinge van wijlen hun moeder Maria Elisabeth Villiers huijsvr: van den landbouwer Steeven Marais
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Aldus gedaan en g’inventariseert ter Weescamer aan Cabo de Goede Hoop den 21 Junij 1749.
[Inventories of the Orphan Chamber Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference no.: MOOC8/8.16 on http://databases.tanap.net/mooc/]
Franschhoek, West Cape, South Africa noble de Villiers.
Pieter Daniel de Villiers and Johanna Jacoba de Villiers.
This lineage of Pieter de Villiers seem to be the clan of the De Villiers Family of the French Huguenots and Winemaking
Three brothers –
Pierre de Villiers (1657-1720), Jacques de Villiers (1661-1735) and Abraham de Villiers (1659-1720) – arrived in the Cape Colony aboard the Zion in 1689.
The French Huguenots farmed the wineries of these regions, this article below is a fantastic detailed history of these families.
Governor van der Stel enthusiastically greeted the fleet and settled the families in and around Stellenbosch and the Drakenstein valley, with some in an area that quickly became known as Franschhoek (French Corner), and others in nearby regions.[22] It was with the arrival of these refugees that wine making in the Cape Colony received the boost it needed.
From Viticulture to Commemoration: French Huguenot Memory in the Cape Colony (1688-1824)
LINK:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0047.007?view=text;rgn=main
Source:
The Journal of the Western Society for French History
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Jacobus de Villiers's Timeline
| 1685 |
1685
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Paarl, Caap de Goede Hoop, Suid Afrika
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| 1703 |
April 29, 1703
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Drakenstein, Caep de Goede Hoop, South Africa
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April 29, 1703
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Drakenstein, Western Cape, South Africa
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| 1727 |
April 6, 1727
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Paarl, Kaap de Goede Hoop
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1730
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Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
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| 1732 |
May 13, 1732
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Drakenstein Municipality, Cape Winelands, WC, South Africa
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1734
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1734
Age 30
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Drakenstein, Caep de Goede Hoop, South Africa
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| 1947 |
October 9, 1947
Age 31
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