http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g7/p7395.htm

alternate spellings first name: Jacquemine / Jacquemina Alternate birth dates: circa 1679/1680.

MHC Du Preez, p16, The Du Preez Family of South Africa

The fifth child, Jacquemine, born circa 1679/1680 apparently at Menin, France, north of Lille, married Abraham Vivier and thus became the maternal ancestor of all the Viviers in South Africa. They lived on the farm “Schoongezicht” at the present-day Daljosafat between Paarl and Wellington. Jacquemine was only about 35 years old when she died in 1715. By that time her husband and his two unmarried brothers were already deceased. She inherited from all three of them. After Jacquemine’s death her children were cared for by her sister, Marie Jeanne, who also had to deal with the disgrace in the family when Jacquemine’s daughter, Elisabeth, in 1717 gave birth to an illegitimate child fathered by Charl du Plessis. Charl was the husband of Cecilia van Marseveen, who happened to be Elisabeth’s cousin. With the kind of Calvinistic “piety” of that time Elisabeth was forced to give the name of the father while she was in labour. (She probably at first refused to say who he was and by doing so hoped to spare her cousin the embarrassment.)

On 31 January 1717 on page 46 of the Drakenstein baptism register it was recorded in thick black ink so as to warn future sinners who might contemplate similar deeds and with the brand of Calvinism of that time: “Elisabeth, daughter of Elisabeth Vivier and Charl du Plessis, who is a married man and on account of this, a child of fornication and adultery” [Original Dutch: " Elisabeth Doghter van Elisabeth Vievier en Charel Duplici die een getrouwt man is en uyt dien hoofde een kint van hoerery en overspel"].

The name of this unfortunate girl who had been so slandered by this semi-literate church scribe and who apparently was brought up by the Du Plessis family, ended up on her mother’s death notice as “du Plaisir” — from pleasure — instead of Du Plessis. (Would it be possible that someone’s vindictiveness extended to punishing Elisabeth Vivier even in death?). This girl, born illegitimately on 24 November 1716, was only 13 years old when her mother died on 22 August 1730.

-----------

==Des Prez in Boucher== North-west of Ath is Courtrai in Flanders, a town on the Lys associated with the Des Prez family which reached the Cape on the Schelde in 1688. Courtrai was held by the French between 1668 and 1678. ..The Des Prez party consisted of Hercule des Prez, born about the year 1645, his wife Cecile (Cecilia) Datis, some five years his junior, and six children: Hercule, Elisabeth, Jacquemine (Jacomina), Marie-Jeanne, Philippe and Francois-Jean. The place of origin of the Des Prez family is uncertain, but Athis southwest of Mons may provide a clue to the earliest beginnings of the Datis family. Later generations would certainly not have remained confined to the village from which they presumably took their name and it is interesting to find in the church registers of Oostburg in the United Provinces a reference in 1748 to the marriage there of a Marie-Catherine Dathee (sic) from the Saint-Quentin generality of Picardy.

It is, however, certain that the Des Prez family was living in the Courtrai district when the town was a French possession. The daughter Elisabeth was baptized in the Sint-Maartens church there on August 31, 1670, with Charles Loridon and Ludovica (Louise) Pittens as godparents. In the same church on July 4, 1677 Francois-Jean was christened, taking the name of his godfather Francois Loridon. The godmother on that occasion was Jeanne, or Johanna van Neste, of a family well represented in the local church registers. It is probable that, as with other French-speaking settlers from Flanders, the Des Prez party was at home in the Flemish language.

The family must also have lived at some time in Bethune in the province of Artois, since it is known that Marie-Jeanne des Prez was born there. If the date of her birth, 1675, is correct, this would indicate a temporary move there from Courtrai. It is possible that Philippe des Prez was also born in Bethune, as he gave the name Artois to his farm in the Land van Waveren. On the other hand, this could be taken to indicate that the Des Prez family had its origins in that province. It is also evident that Hercule des Prez and his wife were once resident in Lille, where Jacquemine was born. Graham Botha gives Courtrai as the birthplace of both Hercule des Prez and his son of the same name, but no confirmation of this has been discovered.

Hercule des Prez and his family were at Flushing in Zeeland by 1686, together with his wife’s brother Nicolas Datis. On August 29 of that year the two men applied to the municipal authorities to join the Sint- Jans guild of tailors without payment of the usual charges. The request points to the necessity of guild membership for obtaining remunerative employment as an artisan, as well as to the financial difficulties in which so many refugee families found themselves. It also provides evidence of the trade followed by the Cape settler, an occupation in keeping with his background in the textile centres of the north-east. The Flushing authorities were prepared to accept the applicants as paying members and to admit them to citizenship when they had taken the required oath.

The refuge in Flushing enabled Hercule des Prez and his wife to practise openly the Calvinist faith and on February 11, 1688, eight days before they sailed with their children on the Schelde, they were given an attestation of membership by the minister and elders of the Walloon church in Flushing. They had, in the words of the document, “fait ouverte profession de la Religion Reformee, et vescu avec edification au milieu de nous, frequentant les sainctes assemblies et participant au Sacrement de la saincte Cene du Seigneur”. The attestation was signed by the pastor Andre Lombard and, in the name of his colleagues, by the church elder Daniel de Groot.

… The voyage to the Cape on the Schelde brought the Des Prez and Prevost families close. Elisabeth des Prez stood godmother at the shipboard baptism of Jacob Prevost, with the ship’s captain as godfather; Philippe des Prez was later to marry Charles Prevost’s daughter Elisabeth.

• Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp269-271

  ---

GEDCOM Note

Category:Cape of Good Hope Stamouer-Progenitor Category:Cape_of_Good_Hope_Project_Needs_Validation

Category:Huguenot_Migration

Biography

Suffix

:: b5

Name ===:: Jacquemina /Du Preez/ <ref>Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. Source: #S5 Page: Ancestry Family Tree</ref>

Birth ===:: Date: Jacquemine des Prez was born about 1670 <ref>Entered by Pieter Meyer, May 3, 2013.</ref> / [in] 1679 <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref> / bef. Nov 1716 <ref name="text-12">Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar</ref> <1716<ref>Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.</ref>:: Place: Lille, France <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref>

Death ===:: Date: 1715 <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref>:: Place: Cape Town, South Africa <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref>

Sources

<references />* WikiTree profile Du Preez-184 through the import of Vermaak Family Site - 05 May 2013.GED on May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak. User ID: 3A4CE51D-8BE3-48E5-BF51-F9076D61EEE5 : Record ID Number: MH:I2301 : UPD 19 JUL 2010 21:11:37 GMT+2* Source: Author: derick opperman Title: Derick Opperman familie boek Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Jacquemina du Preez * Source: Author: Jan Engelbrecht Title: Engelbrecht Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Jacomina (Jaquemina) du Prez* Source: Author: Dries Strydom Title: Dries Strydom Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Jacquemina (Jaquemine) Du Preez (Des Prez) (Des Pres)

---

* WikiTree profile Du Prees-1 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar. User ID: 8872A753-FA39-4DDA-8290-6B4E7B8284E9 : Record IDNumber: MH:I1498 : UPD 28 JAN 2012 22:59:09 GMT+2

---

* WikiTree profile Du Preez-68 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper. User ID:3D90139AE3EDA941A6A1A02832037B8C7F44 Prior to import, this record was last changed 14 Sep 2009.

---

* WikiTree profile Du Preez-521 was created through the import of Venter_2013_2015-01-12_2015-01-1402.ged on Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. * Source: S5 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R2

• Repository: R2 Name: Ancestry.com

  ---

  * WikiTree profile Du Preez-76 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper. User ID:A17FF013FD6C4648B04222F61EEEBD9C899C Prior to import, this record was last changed 16 Nov 2009.

  ---

GEDCOM Note

---

GEDCOM Source

@R1200312375@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=106302622&pi...

---

GEDCOM Note

{geni:about_me} alternate spellings first name: Jacquemine / Jacquemina Alternate birth dates: 1666, 1670, 1679

MHC Du Preez, p16, The Du Preez Family of South Africa

The fifth child, Jacquemine, born ca. 1679 apparently at Menin, France, north of Lille, married Abraham Vivier and thus became the maternal ancestor of all the Viviers in South Africa. They lived on the farm “Schoongezicht” at the present-day Daljosafat between Paarl and Wellington. Jacquemine was only about 35 years old when she died in 1715. By that time her husband and his two unmarried brothers were already deceased. She inherited from all three of them. After Jacquemine’s death her children were cared for by her sister, Marie Jeanne, who also had to deal with the disgrace in the family when Jacquemine’s daughter, Elisabeth, in 1717gave birth to an illegitimate child fathered by Charl du Plessis. Charl was the husband of Cecilia van Marseveen, who happened to be Elisabeth’s cousin. With the kind of Calvinistic “piety” of that time Elisabeth was forced togive the name of the father while she was in labour. (She probably at first refused to say who he was and by doing so hoped to spare her cousin the embarrassment.)

On 31 January 1717 on page 46 of the Drakenstein baptism register it was recorded in thick black ink so as to warn future sinners who might contemplate similar deeds and with the brand of Calvinism of that time: “Elisabeth, daughter of Elisabeth Vivier and Charl du Plessis, who is a married man and on account of this, a child of fornication and adultery” [Original Dutch: " Elisabeth Doghter van Elisabeth Vievier en Charel Duplici die een getrouwt man is en uyt dien hoofde een kint van hoerery en overspel"].

The name of this unfortunate girl who had been so slandered by this semi-literate church scribe and who apparently was brought up by the Du Plessis family, ended up on her mother’s death notice as “du Plaisir” — from pleasure — instead of Du Plessis. (Would it be possible that someone’s vindictiveness extended to punishing Elisabeth Vivier even in death?). This girl, born illegitimately on 24 November 1716, was only 13 years old when her mother died on 22 August 1730.

---

Des Prez in Boucher

North-west of Ath is Courtrai in Flanders, a town on the Lys associated with the Des Prez family which reached the Cape on the Schelde in 1688. Courtrai was held by the French between 1668 and 1678. ..The Des Prez party consistedof Hercule des Prez, born about the year 1645, his wife Cecile (Cecilia) Datis, some five years his junior, and six children: Hercule, Elisabeth, Jacquemine (Jacomina), Marie-Jeanne, Philippe and Francois-Jean. The place of origin of the Des Prez family is uncertain, but Athis southwest of Mons may provide a clue to the earliest beginnings of the Datis family. Later generations would certainly not have remained confined to the village from which they presumablytook their name and it is interesting to find in the church registers of Oostburg in the United Provinces a reference in 1748 to the marriage there of a Marie-Catherine Dathee (sic) from the Saint-Quentin generality of Picardy.

It is, however, certain that the Des Prez family was living in the Courtrai district when the town was a French possession. The daughter Elisabeth was baptized in the Sint-Maartens church there on August 31, 1670, with Charles Loridon and Ludovica (Louise) Pittens as godparents. In the same church on July 4, 1677 Francois-Jean was christened, taking the name of his godfather Francois Loridon. The godmother on that occasion was Jeanne, or Johanna van Neste, of a family well represented in the local church registers. It is probable that, as with other French-speaking settlers from Flanders, the Des Prez party was at home in the Flemish language.

The family must also have lived at some time in Bethune in the province of Artois, since it is known that Marie-Jeanne des Prez was born there. If the date of her birth, 1675, is correct, this would indicate a temporary move there from Courtrai. It is possible that Philippe des Prez was also born in Bethune, as he gave the name Artois to his farm in the Land van Waveren. On the other hand, this could be taken to indicate that the Des Prez family had its origins in that province. It is also evident that Hercule des Prez and his wife were once resident in Lille, where Jacquemine was born. Graham Botha gives Courtrai as the birthplace of both Hercule des Prez and his son of the same name, but no confirmation of this has been discovered.

Hercule des Prez and his family were at Flushing in Zeeland by 1686, together with his wife’s brother Nicolas Datis. On August 29 of that year the two men applied to the municipal authorities to join the Sint- Jans guild of tailors without payment of the usual charges. The request points to the necessity of guild membership for obtaining remunerative employment as an artisan, as well as to the financial difficulties in which so many refugee families found themselves. It also provides evidenceof the trade followed by the Cape settler, an occupation in keeping with his background in the textile centres of the north-east. The Flushing authorities were prepared to accept the applicants as paying members and to admit themto citizenship when they had taken the required oath.

The refuge in Flushing enabled Hercule des Prez and his wife to practise openly the Calvinist faith and on February 11, 1688, eight days before they sailed with their children on the Schelde, they were given an attestation of membership by the minister and elders of the Walloon church in Flushing. They had, in the words of the document, “fait ouverte profession de la Religion Reformee, et vescu avec edification au milieu de nous, frequentant les sainctes assemblies et participant au Sacrement de la saincte Cene du Seigneur”. The attestation was signed by the pastor Andre Lombard and, in the name of his colleagues, by the church elder Daniel de Groot.

… The voyage to the Cape on the Schelde brought the Des Prez and Prevost families close. Elisabeth des Prez stood godmother at the shipboard baptism of Jacob Prevost, with the ship’s captain as godfather; Philippe des Prez was later to marry Charles Prevost’s daughter Elisabeth.

• Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp269-271

  ---

GEDCOM Note

Category:Cape of Good Hope Stamouer-Progenitor Category:Cape_of_Good_Hope_Project_Needs_Validation

Category:Huguenot_Migration

Biography

Suffix

:: b5

Name ===:: Jacquemina /Du Preez/ <ref>Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. Source: #S5 Page: Ancestry Family Tree</ref>

Birth ===:: Date: Jacquemine des Prez was born about 1670 <ref>Entered by Pieter Meyer, May 3, 2013.</ref> / [in] 1679 <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref> / bef. Nov 1716 <ref name="text-12">Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar</ref> <1716<ref>Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.</ref>:: Place: Lille, France <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref>

Death ===:: Date: 1715 <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref>:: Place: Cape Town, South Africa <ref name="text-85">May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak.</ref>

Sources

<references />* WikiTree profile Du Preez-184 through the import of Vermaak Family Site - 05 May 2013.GED on May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak. User ID: 3A4CE51D-8BE3-48E5-BF51-F9076D61EEE5 : Record ID Number: MH:I2301 : UPD 19 JUL 2010 21:11:37 GMT+2* Source: Author: derick opperman Title: Derick Opperman familie boek Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Jacquemina du Preez * Source: Author: Jan Engelbrecht Title: Engelbrecht Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Jacomina (Jaquemina) du Prez* Source: Author: Dries Strydom Title: Dries Strydom Text: MyHeritage.com Page: Jacquemina (Jaquemine) Du Preez (Des Prez) (Des Pres)

---

* WikiTree profile Du Prees-1 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar. User ID: 8872A753-FA39-4DDA-8290-6B4E7B8284E9 : Record IDNumber: MH:I1498 : UPD 28 JAN 2012 22:59:09 GMT+2

---

* WikiTree profile Du Preez-68 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper. User ID:3D90139AE3EDA941A6A1A02832037B8C7F44 Prior to import, this record was last changed 14Sep 2009.

---

* WikiTree profile Du Preez-521 was created through the import of Venter_2013_2015-01-12_2015-01-1402.ged on Jan 14, 2015 by Wilhelm Venter. * Source: S5 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R2

• Repository: R2 Name: Ancestry.com

  ---

  * WikiTree profile Du Preez-76 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper. User ID:A17FF013FD6C4648B04222F61EEEBD9C899C Prior to import, this record was last changed 16Nov 2009.

  ---

GEDCOM Note

---

GEDCOM Source

@R1200312375@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=106302622&pi...

GEDCOM Note

Haar van ook gespel DU PRES (DU PREEZ).
---

GEDCOM Note

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> b5

EVEN TYPE Comment (2) DATE 24 JUN 1949 EVEN TYPE Comment (3) DATE 13 JUL 1949 EVEN TYPE Comment (4) DATE 16 MAR 19501. Records in possession of J.P.Hansie Brummer 2. Name also spelt Du Pre 3. Ordinances also performed Bap. 25 Sep.1928 End. 6 Jan.1932

EVEN TYPE Comment (2) DATE 24 JUN 1949 EVEN TYPE Comment (3) DATE 13 JUL 1949 EVEN TYPE Comment (4) DATE 16 MAR 19501. Records in possession of J.P.Hansie Brummer 2. Name also spelt Du Pre 3. Ordinances also performed Bap. 25 Sep.1928 End. 6 Jan.1932