Jacques Therond ( now spelled Theron) came to SA on board the "Oosterland" as a soldier in 1688.

He became a free "burgher" on 31 May 1688.

He was the owner of the farm "Languerdoc, Heemraad.

Bronne:

Geslagregister van Vroeë Kaapse families - C C de Villiers

Groot Familie Naamboek - Cor Pama

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Transcribed from PROCEEDINGS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF LONDON, Volume 5, No. 1-4, 1894-1896, Printed by Charles T. King, High Street, Lymington, 1898
NOTES ON HUGUENOT FAMILIES AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE BY THE LATE C. C. DE VILLIERS, ESQ. (From Copy Presented by W. J. C. Moens, Esq., F.S.A.), pp. 222-250 http://www.genealogyworld.net/ellen/NotesonHuguenotFamilies.htm

THEROND, Jacques, in Distribution list 1690, and among Drakenstein Burghers 1692. There is a copy of a letter in the Grey Library from Jacques THEROND, dated 2nd April 1719, from Nimes the capital of Languedoc, and addressed to his son Jacques Therond the refugee. The farm owned by the latter at the Cape was called ‘Languedoc.’ Jacques THEROND, the refugee, married Marie Janne DES PREEZ. First child born 1698. Where the wife’s name is given in the Drakenstein Baptismal entries it is written ‘DE PRE’ or DE PRET,’ according to Theal. Numerous descendants still living, writing their name now simply ‘THERON’ without the ‘d.’

Jacques Therond, Van Nimes, Languedoc, Frankryk.

Kom in Kaap aan in 1688 op die skip Oosterland (soldaat). Eienaar van Plaas Languedoc

http://boersfamilie.com/boers/legacy/360.htm

Jacques THERON

(-1739)

Family Links  

Spouses/Children:

Marie Jeanne DES PRES (DU PREEZ)

Maria (DP 990) Marie (DP 971) THERON+

Jacques THERON 1

Born: Nîmes, Languedoc, Frankryk.

Marriage: Marie Jeanne DES PRES (DU PREEZ) 1697

Died: 2 Dec 1739, Drakenstein

 General Notes: 

Aankoms 1688 op die skip "Oosterlandt". Soldaat, burger 31 Mei 1688, eienaar van die plaas "Languedoc". Heemraad.

Arrival 1688 on the "Oosterlandt". Soldier, burger 31 May 1688, owner of the farm "Languedoc". Heemraad.

Jacques married Marie Jeanne DES PRES (DU PREEZ) in 1697. (Marie Jeanne DES PRES (DU PREEZ) was born in Béthune..)

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1 C. C. de Villiers, hersien deur, revised by, C. Parma, p. 971.

http://www.archive.org/stream/frenchrefugeesat00both/frenchrefugees...

The Oosterlandt left Middelburg on the 29th January, 1688,

and reached Table Bay on the 26th April, 1688, after a

most successful voyage of two months and ten days.^ She

was a much larger built ship than the Voorschooten, measuring

one hundred and sixty feet. She brought out twenty-four

Refugees.' One of them was Jacques de Savoye of Aeth,

a wealthy merchant. Jean Prier du Plessis of Poitiers, who

had practised as a surgeon, and Isaac Taillefert of Chateau

Thierry, a hatmaker, were also on board ; they all brought

out their wives and children

Jacques of Nismes. Laiiguedoc, arrived in the

Oosterlandt in 1688 as a soldier in the Company's

service ; on 31st May, 1688, he became a free

burgher. He married Marie Jeanne des Pres

of Bethune, q.v., daughter of the Refugee

Hercule des Pres, and died 2nd December, 1739,

aged 71 years 6 months. Jacques Theron was

a member of the Court of Landdrost and Heem-

raden, and owned the farm Languedoc.

Descendants.

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Jean Imbert, together with his friend Jacques Theron, arrived in the Cape as Huguenot refugees in 1688. Both came from the south of France, not far from the historic city of Montpellier , the birthplace of Jean according to some sources. It is therefore not surprising that Jean Imbert called his farm Montpellier, when the 50 morgen of fertile alluvial land was granted to him in 1714 by the then governor of the Cape, Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes. His friend Jacques Theron was granted the neighboring farm Le Rhône. In those early years, the farm was used exclusively for grazing cattle. The first vineyard was planted soon after a homestead was build by Jean and Jacques Theron, working together. This first vineyard, together with a fruit-tree orchard, was meant for domestic usage. Only in the late 1890's the first commercial vineyards was laid out on the farm.

Since the death of Jean Imbert in 1723, Montpellier had for a time many owners. In 1778 it was acquired by Jan Theron, a descendant of Jacques Theron. It later passed out of the Theron family's hands, but was reacquired in the 1880's by three Theron brothers, Hendrik, Jan and Gawie. The farm stayed in the Theron family for the next 100 years

(source: http://www.montpellier.co.za/about.htm)

Nicola Sophie Theron related in her Memoirs that: Jacques Therond came from Nismus in Lanquedoc, France. He frled from France on account of his religion. He first went to Holland and from there to Middleburg, South Africa. He sailed in the ship Oosterlandt, one of a convoy of three ships which left on 20th January 1688 and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 26th April 1699. This was the arrival of the first Hugenots.

Jacques was in the military service of the East India Company. On 21st May (year unknown) he was made a free citizen (vrye burger) at Klein Drakenstein. He married Marie Jeanne des Press (now du Preez). She was from Bethune in France and a daughter of Herculas du Preez and Cecilia D'Calis.

He died 2nd December 1739 on his farm Lanquedoc at the age of 70 years. They had 7 children. He was a Landdrost (member of the Heemraads Hof) as they called it in those days. He was also a steward in the Church of Drakenstein.

He arrived in the Cape on the ship Oosterland'. He was a farmer and owned the farms Langedoc and le Rhone in the Stellenbosch district.

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The Huguenot Heritage. The story of the Huguenots at the Cape by Lynne BRYER and Francois THERON. Chameleon Press. 1987. ISBN 0 620 11390 1

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3 Oosterland

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Sailed from Middelburg 29 January 1688

Arrived Table Bay 26 April 1688

THEROND, Jacques (Languedoc)

(Sailed as a soldier on the ship)

[THERON]

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Theronds in Boucher

Also apparently from Nimes was the Cape burgher Jacques Therond, who reached the Cape as a soldier aboard the Oosterland in 1688. No certain information has been learned about his departure from France or his arrival in the United Provinces, but he must have been in Middel- burg prior to embarkation. A merchant Jacques Therond from Montpellier settled in Amsterdam in 1687and there was a Calvinist of that name at Boisseron, between Montpellier and Nimes, before the revocation. He not only farmed there, but also traded in oil and other merchandise out of Frontignan to Messina in Sicily.There may be a family connection here, although the name Therond is frequently encountered in the region. Another possible reference to the Cape settler in the Netherlands appears in the records of the ’s-Hertogenbosch church, where a Jacob Touron (sic), a soldier in the Walloon regiment, brought an attestation from Saint-Antonin, presumably the Calvinist centre of that name north-east of Montauban This is at a considerable distance from Nimes, but the entry does not entirely rule out the possibility that we are dealing here with the Cape refugee, despite the variation in names.

We do, however, have some knowledge of the Cape Theronds and their background from a manuscript account drawn up by Pieter Francois Theron in 1827, a descendant who has rightly been described by A.M. Hugo as the first Afrikaner genealogist.116 This document not only contains material on the colonial branch of the family, but also the Dutch translation of a letter written at Nimes on April 2, 1719 by Jacques Therond’s father. Although the original has not come to light, there can be no doubt about the authenticity of this communication. Franken has suggested that the date may have been incorrectly transcribed, but he misinterprets the evidence on which he bases this assumption. A remark in the letter about the outbreak of war between France and Spain does in fact accord with the contemporary political situation. The reference is to the brief struggle to curb Alberoni’s expansionist policies, fruit of a new Anglo-French understanding which emerged after the close of the long Spanish succession struggle.

There are other details in the letter which lend credibility to its contents: family history and the evident advanced age of Jacques’s father; the fact that another son was living in the Prescheurs suburb, easily identifiable from a map of the period; comment on the private devotions of Calvinists; the mention of galley-slaves; a probable reference to the former Protestant centre of Calvisson, where worship was banned in August 1685 and the great temple demolished after the revocation, to rise again in modern times on the same site.12" If, as seems likely, it is this place-name which is disguised by a faulty spelling, there is no reason to accept Franken’s suggestion that the Theronds might have had aristocratic connections. Finally there is the Fisquet who brought news to Languedoc of the Theronds in exile at the Cape. Is this not perhaps Jean Fisquet of the Cevennes, a corporal in the service of the Dutch East India Company there in 1715?

The contents of this letter enable us to make a cautious evaluation of the Therond entries in Protestant registers at Nimes and Calvisson. Jacques Therond had a brother Moise and an uncle of the same name; another uncle was Pierre. There were also nephews Moise and Daniel. Jacques’s father was spending his declining years in Daniel's house, where the letter was written. However, the abundance of Theronds in the Nimes and Calvisson registers, the incomplete nature of the entries and the existence of other temples in the neighbourhood of Nimes where family details might have been recorded make positive identification difficult. Moreover we are confronted by other problems. Pieter Francois Theron has indicated that Jacques’s father was also named Jacques. If this is so the extant registers at Nimes and Calvisson reveal little. Secondly we have it on record that Jacques Therond of the Cape was born in mid-May 1668. This cannot be confirmed from the baptismal entries at Nimes.

Nevertheless a tentative approach to the Therond relationships will at least serve to place the family in social context. A preliminary remark will not be out of place at this stage. Botha was aware that two forms of surnames sometimes existed among Cape settlers from France, but he did not appreciate the significance of the variations. In the seventeenth century it was customary in the southern regions of France to add a feminine suffix to the surnames of women and girls. Thus Therond became Theronde, Imbert, Imberte and Vidau, Vidalle. Other examples from the Calvinist registers of Languedoc and Provence include Rey and the feminine Reyne, Soulier and Souliere, Roux and Rousse, Martin and Martine, and Jourdan and Jourdanne, or even Jo(u)rdanesse.

The closest entry of the birth of a Jacques Therond in the baptismal registers of Nimes was made exactly a year before the date recorded at the Cape, namely on May 18, 1667. This was the child of a travalheur Sauvaire Therond and his wife Isabeau Contesse, whose marriage had taken place on October 22, 1663. Sauvaire (Saviour) is a Christian name of local usage. The child was presented at baptism by a silk- mercer Jean Martin, acting for his son Jacques. It seems possible that Sauvaire Therond was the son of Jacques Therond, whose wife Marie Imberte died in January 1676.This would bring the Theronds and the Imberts, represented at the Cape, into a close relationship.

Here is a family in which the Christian names Moise, Pierre and Daniel are to be found and one moreover with a clear link with Calvisson. On April 27, 1659 Moise Therond of Nimes married Marie Vidalle of Calvisson. They settled in the wife’s birthplace, where a son Sauvaire was born to them in June 1670.Members of the Therond family were mainly agricultural workers and artisans, although there was a Jean Therond practising medicine in Calvisson. A Pierre Therond, possibly the brother of Sauvaire Therond of Nimes, was a shoemaker, but of sufficient standing in local society to be chosen as consul, or municipal officer. Another Moise Therond was married to Isabeau Massipe. Like Sauvaire a labourer, he and his wife chose as godfather to their daughter Sara in 1685 a gardener Pierre Martin, another link perhaps with the godfather of 1667. A son Daniel was born to this couple in March 1683. Further investigation of contemporary documents, particularly in the legal field, will doubtless reveal more about these involved family relationships, but much suggests that we are at least dealing with the family of the Cape settler.

A Jacques Therond, son of a father of the same name, has, however, been identified elsewhere and again we have a connection with the Martins of Languedoc. The child’s date of birth is close to that recorded at the Cape, but not sufficiently so to make identification certain. This Jacques Therond was born on January 16, 1669 and was christened at Uzes, within easy reach of Nimes to the north. His father was a merchant, married to Jeanne Martine. It is possible that the Theronds were not natives of Uzes, where the name is of rare occurrence. Was this family then related to the Theronds of Nimes and Calvisson?
. ..A connection between Theronds and Martins has already been noted and it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Jacques Therond and Antoine Martin were related.

• M. Boucher (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 6: Cape settlers II: from the Rhone to the Atlantic p152 -6

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VOORTREKKERAFSTAMMELINGE

Voortrekkerstamouers 1835 - 1845 deur Jan C. VISAGIE (Afrikaans). Protea Uitgewers, Pretoria, 2011. Tweede uitgawe, derde druk 2011. ISBN 978-1-86919-372-0.

Bladsy 496 - 497

THERON, Thomas Francois - b4c7d1e4 neem deel aan die Groot Trek met sy broer Jacobus Arnoldus e7 en sy 2 seuns Hendrik Schalk f3 en Petrus Jacobus f4. Hulle het hulle in die Winburg distrik gevestig.

Bygevoeg deur Y. DROST, 6 JAN 2017

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{{Huguenot Ancestor|name= Jacques Therond|addinfo=
He found refuge in the Dutch Cape Colony. }} Category: France, Needs Birth Category: France, Needs More Records

Biography

Name ===:: Jacques Therond <ref name=JUDY>WikiTree profile Therond-1 created through the import of My Family.Pretorius.Van_Wyk.DeWaal.Potgieter.2011.ged on Sep 19, 2011 by Pretorius-12 | Judy Potgieter. * Source: Title: Communicated by Helmine Lock of the farm Lokenburg in the Nieuwoudtville district (see Repository/Comments). </ref><ref name=ARRIE>WikiTree profile Therond-2 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Klopper-13 | Arrie Klopper.</ref><ref name=PIETER>WikiTree profile Therond-3 created byMeyer-2493|Pieter Meyer 21 May 2013. Source: * Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Jacques Therond.</ref> / Jacques Therod <ref name=AMANDA/> / Jacques Theron <ref name=AMANDA>WikiTree profile Theron-157 created by Olivier-378|Amanda Calitz 28 June 2013. Source: Geneanet.org Jacques Theron</ref>

Birth ===:: Date: Jun 1668 <ref name=JUDY/><ref name=PIETER/> / 11/15 May 1668 <ref name=ARRIE/>:: Place: Nismes, Langquedoc, France <ref name=JUDY/> / Nimes, Languedoc, Frankryk <ref name=AMANDA/> / Languedoc <ref name=PIETER/> / Frankryk <ref name=ARRIE/>

Immigration ===:: On 29 January 1688 Elisabeth Taillefert, Madeleine Menanteau, Charles Prieur du Plessis, Jean Prieur du Plessis, Jacques de Savoye, Antoinette Carnoy, Marie-Madeleine le Clercq, Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye, Barbe-Thérèse de Savoye, Jacques de Savoye, Daniel Nourtier, Jacques Nourtier, Jean Nourtier, Marie Vitu, Isaac Taillefert, Suzanne Briet, Jean Taillefert, Jean-Isaac Taillefert, Pierre Taillefert, SuzanneTaillefert, Marie Taillefert and Jacques Therond sailed on the Oosterland <ref name=ARRIE/> from Middelburg to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 26 Apr 1688.<ref name=ARRIE/><ref name=PIETER/><ref name=AMANDA/><ref>Oosterland - 3rd ship to leave Netherlands, 160 feet long, could carry 275 passeners. Belonged to the Chamber of Zeeland. Captain Carel van Marseveen. Left Middelburg on 29 January 1688, and Goereeon 3 February 1688; no deaths on board and nobody sick when the ship arrived in Table Bay, 2 months & 22 days, arrived Table Bay April 25, 1688. Among those mentioned: Jacques Therond (1688-1739) Sources: mostly Appendix 2 of "Hugenotebloed in ons are" by J.G. le Roux (1992; ISBN 0-7969-0566-5) and "French speakers at the Cape" by M. Boucher(1981, ISBN 0-86981-222-X) - Contributor Lesley Robertson. Seen on: Ships Passenger List for Huguenot Ship Oosterland to South Africa 1688. See also: Ships Carrying Huguenots to South Africa Ships Passenger - List for Huguenot Ship Oosterlandt to South Africa 1688 Source: Coertzen, Pieter - "The Huguenots of South Africa 1688-1988", Tafelberg Publishers Limited, Cape Town, 1988 (Contributor June 19, 1999 Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden). Seen and added by Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt Oct 11, 2015.</ref>

Family ===:: Stamvader Abraham Vivier en sy vrou Jacquemine des Pres is in 1713 en 1715 oorlede. Hulle dogters is deur hul tante, Marie Jeanne des Pres en haar man Jacques Therond groot gemaak. 'n Skandaal is in 1716 in Drakenstein veroorsaak deur Elisabeth Vivier se aantuiging dat Charl du Plessis,die vader van haar buite egtelike kind is. (Elisabeth Vivieren Cecilia van Marseveen die vrou van Charl du Plessis, was niggies).<ref name=AMANDA/>

:: a Jacques THERON(D) x April 1697 met Marie Jeanne DES PRES <ref name=AMANDA/>:::b2 Jacques THERON, gebore 7.7.1699, oorlede 1756; x met Elisabeth DU TOIT, gedoop 9.8.1705, oorlede Tulbagh 5.1.1789, dogter van François du Toit en Susanne Seugnet <ref name=AMANDA/>::::c4 Jacobus THERON, gedoop Drakenstein 3.4.1728, oorlede 1806; x 23.3.1749 met Hester BLIGNAUT, gedoop 7.8.1729, oorlede Tulbagh 16.3.1771, dogter van Jean Blignaut en Anna Rousseau; xx Tulbagh 3.11.1771 metAnna Sophia DE VOD, gedoop 26.5.1748, oorlede Oude Kloof Tulbagh 28.2.1818, dogter van Pieter de Vos en Maria Susanna du Toit <ref name=AMANDA/>:::::d18 Thomas Arnoldus THERON, gedoop Tulbagh 3.10.1789; x Tulbagh 5.11.1809 Catharina Cecilia VAN HEERDEN, gebore 27.10.1793, dogter van Izaak van Heerden en Elsie Myburg; xx Tulbagh 6.6.1812 Louisa Jacoba MEYER, gebore 23.1.1794, gedoop Tulbagh 8.2.1795, oorlede Wolvenkop distrik Graaff-Reinet 26.11.1855, dogter van Jan Abraham Meyer en Louisa Jacoba de Bruyn <ref name=AMANDA/>:: Two of his sons were elders of the Roodezandt congregation (Jacquesand Pierre). <ref name=ROBIN/>

Occupation

:: Soldaat, boer <ref name=ARRIE/>:: Soldaat, burger 31 May 1688, eienaar van die plaas Languedoc, Heemraad. <ref name=AMANDA/>:: Appointed caretaker of the district roads in ~1713. Le Rhone had 23000 vines planted and they farmed wheat and livestock. <ref name=ROBIN/>

Events ===:: Between 1690 and 1724, 54 Huguenots signed documents. These signatures were published by Graham Botha in his book The French Refugees at the Cape and includes those of De_Berault-1|Louis de Berault, Simond-19|Pierre Simond, Delporte-2|Jacques Delporte, Durand-69|Jean Durand, De_Savoye-15|Jacques de Savoye, Nortier-10|Jacques Nourtier,Gauch-1|André Gauch, Rétif-13|François Retif, Néel-502|Guillaume Néel, Roux-42|Paul Roux, Hùgo-118|Daniel Hùgo, Sénéchal-4|David Senecal, Du_Plessis-144|Jean Prieur du Plessis, Du_Toit-133|Guillaume du Toit, Du_Toit-82|François du Toit, Le_Roux-124|Jean le Roux (or Le_Roux-132|Jean le Roux de Normandie?), Therond-1|Jacques Therond, Du_Preez-433|Hercules desPrez, De_Villiers-208|Abraham de Villiers, Gardiol-28|Jean Gardiol, De_Villiers-114|Jacques de Villiers, De_Villiers-198|Pierre de Villiers, Taillefert-2|Isaac Taillefert (or Taillefer-164|Isaac Taillefer-164)), Taillefert-8|Jean Taillefert, Garde-13|Jean Gardé, Marais-159|Claude Marais, Bruére-6|Estienne Bruére, Des_Ruelles-9|Daniel des Ruelles, Rousseau-476|PierreRousseau, Pineau-51|Jacques Pinard, Cronier-51|Estienne Cronje, Malan-49|Jacques Malan, Le_Roux-205|Gabriel le Roux, Du_Buisson-5|David du Buisson, Nortier-9|Daniel Nourtier, Niel-8|Estienne Niel, Fouche-22|Philippe Fouché, Le_Grand-23|Gideonle Grand, Cronje-25|Pierre Cronjé, Couvret-21|Paul Couvret, Le_Febvre-26|Paul le Febvre, De_Gournay-61|Salomon de Gournay, Vivier-39|Pierre Vivier, Jourdan-22|Pierre Jourdan, Viret-6|Estienne Viret, Costeux-3|Esaias Engelbert Caucheteux and Du_Buis-15|Jean de Buijs. <ref>Entered by Meyer-2493|Pieter Meyer25 April, 2013. Source: Colin Graham Botha, The French Refugees at the Cape (Cape Town: Cape Times Limited, 1921), p. 74. Also see Geni.com > French Huguenots who emigrated to South Africa. </ref> These signatures were almost certainly also some of those of the240 burghers who signed the petition headed by Tas-2|Adam Tas <ref>Also see: Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/ Page: Adam Tas & Adam Tas, Dagboek (eds. Leo Fouché, A.J. Böeseken, vert. J.P. Smuts). Van Riebeeck-Vereniging, Kaapstad 1970 2011 dbnl / erven Leo Fouché / A.J. Böeseken / J. Smuts. Seen and entered by Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt Apr 3, 2017.</ref> against corruption and cronyism by the Government of Vander_Stel-6|Willem Adriaan van der stel. <ref> Vander_Stel-6|Willem Adriaan van der stel succeeded his father, Van_der_Stel-28|Simon van der Stel, as Governor of the Cape in 1699; Willem van der Stel abused his official position to corner an over-supplied market in farm produce. Van der Stel was jealous of Tas-2|Adam Tas's wealth and easy going life, and in 1706 he usedhis legal powers to arrest and imprison him. Tas became a Stellenbosch legend when he had this petition drawn up against incumbent GovernorW.A. van der Stel and other farming officials. Tas and his fellow free burghers were protesting against the corruption and extravagant lifestyle of Van der Stel and the fact that abuse of power by officials led to unfair competition with burghers. The Tas petition was submitted to the Lords Seventeen, thegoverning body of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in Amsterdam. The petition was rejected and on Sunday, 28 February 1706 Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas. From documents in the desk of Tas, Van der Stel established the nature of complaints against him and also the names of the dissatisfied burghers. Though several more burghers were arrested and punished, they were victorious at the end, when the Lords Seventeen in October 1706 categorically prohibited officials to own land or to trade. His wife Van_Braackell-1|Elizabeth van Brakel tried hard to get him released; when Adam Tas was finally freed after thirteen months, he named his farm 'Libertas' (liberty). Vander Stel was recalled to the Netherlands in 1707. Sources: http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/adam-tas-arrested; http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2005-05/... (seen and added by Van der Walt-440|Philip van der Walt with the kind help of Kruger-4160|Maria Labuschagne on Apr 3, 2017.)</ref>

Property ===:: La Rhone (initially Le Rhone) was one of the first nine farmsgiven out as loan farms to the first settlers who started farming in the “The Land of Waveren” in the early 1700’s, the first freehold owner being a certain Jacques Theron, who received the farm in 1714.Theron, who farmed with vines, cattle and sheep, originated from Nimes in the Languedoc, watered by the Rhone, hence probably the name of this farm! <ref name="text-48zx">Rhone webwerf. With premission of Trudene. Adress: La Rhone Farm ,Tulbagh, 6820, SOUTH AFRICA. Seen and entered Febr 15, 2018 by Coetsee-48|Susanna de Bruyn.</ref>

:: Jacques was given La Rhone in Waveren in tenure, on his death, the farm was transferred to his son, Pieter for 5000 gulden. The farm was 60 morgen in size. <ref name=ROBIN>Reference: Old Stellenbosch Freehold, Volume.2:14Grantee. Theron, Jacques. Description or Name of Farm (the latter designated by a number on the map). Land on Palmiet River, next to Jan Imbert, Jan Roux of Provence and Paul Godefroy. farm called Lanquedoc. Grant. 43 8.11.1710 Remarks. surveyed 1690 Added by Swanepoel-604|Robin Swanepoel 19 June 2016. Sources: * Oocities.org > Huguenot* Rev. MJN van Zyl. 2010. Tulbagh, Roodezandt, Het land van Waveren.350 year commemorative book. pg 27, 41-43</ref>

Death ===:: Date: Dec 2, 1739 <ref name=JUDY/><ref name=ARRIE/> (1739 <ref name=PIETER/>) (Dec 1739 <ref name=AMANDA/>):: Place: Drakenstein, Cape [South Africa] <ref name=JUDY/><ref name=ARRIE/><ref name=AMANDA/>

Sources

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GEDCOM Note

Jacques was the progenitor (stamvader) of the Theron family in South Afri ca. He arrived in the Cape from Niemes on 12 May 1688 on the ship "Ooster land" as a soldier. The ship belonged to the Chamber of Zeeland and its c aptain was Carel van Marseveen. It left Middelburg on 29 Jan 1688, and Go eree on 3 Feb 1688, arriving at the Cape on 26 April, 1688. On 31 May 1688 he settled in Klein Drakenstein in the Paarl. He settled on the farm "Sondernaam" in Klein Drakenstein, south-west of t he farm "Languedoc", which he obtained in 1711. He was a member of the College of Magistrates and the Heemrade. When his sister-in-law Jacqemina's husband, Abraham, died he cared for he r daughters.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 14 2018, 21:33:01 UTC

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Bio notes: Came to the Cape as a soldier in 1688 on the "Oosterlandt",
Settled Klein Drakenstein; free burger 31.5.1688; owned 'Languedoc'; heemraad x 1697 Marie Jeanne des Pres

Die stamvader Jacques THEROND het die volgende brief van sy vader Jaques(sonder die c) THEROND ontvang:

"My liewe kind, Was ek nie bly om van Mnr. Fisquet te hoor dat jy onder die sorg van dir Liewe Heer aan die Kaap woon, getroud is en 'n gesin het nie. Dink net watter vreugde dit vir my op my oudag was. My bede is dat ons Liewe Vader my genadig wil wees om voor my dood van jouself te mag verneem aangaande jou welsyn. Ek glo dat die Heer deur Sy goedheid aan hierdie wens sal voldoen mits jy my brief ontvang. Jou broer Moyze(Moses) en sy gesin stuur groete, hulle is almal fris en gesond.

Hy is na jou vertrek getroud en sy vrou het twee seuns en 'n dogter. Hul oudste seun, jou nefie, is ook al getroud en het 'n seuntjie. Ook jou ooms Moyze en Pierre Therond met hul vrouens en kinders is almal wel en stuur hartlike groete. Die seuns van jou neef Moyze wens jou met vrou en kinders net die beste toe. Ek woon nou by jou nefie (broerskind) Daniel waar ek volgens Gods wil waarin ek my berus, my laaste dae slyt en ook hierdie brief skryf. Vier van jou ooms Moyze en Pierre se dogters is getroud.

Ook hulle stuur groete. Jou neef wat in Calvisson woon en sy hele gesin groet jou. Sy vader, my oudste broer, is sowat agt jaar gelede oorlede, maar sy weduwee is gesond en stuur groete. Dit, my liewe kind, is al wat ek nou het om te skryf. Ek bid onse Liewe Heer om jou in alles te seen wanneer jy hierdie brief ontvang. Rig jou antwoord aan die adres van jou broer Moyze in die voorstad Prescheurs. Aangaande die landsnuus--Dit is op 3 Desember 1718 met tamboer en trompetgeskal in Nimes aangekondig dat Frankryk en Spanje in oorlog verkeer-- Die eerste keer wat dit so gedoen word.

Daar word nie meer iets oor ons Godsdiens gese nie. Ons bid in ons huise, maar word fyn dopgehou om te verseker dat ons geen samekomste hou nie. Die oorspronklike galeislawe is vrygelaat, maar twee jaar gelede is nuwes ingesit. Jou liefhebbende Vader, Jaques Therond Nimes Languedoc 2 April 1719"

(Die Mnr.Fisquet na wie verwys word, is waarskynlik Jean Fisquet van die Cevennes, 'n korporaal in diens van die Kompanjie, wat Kaapstad in 1715 besoek het).