Matthieu Frachas

A mere handful of miles west of Cabrières d'Aigues is Lourmarin. Here we find .. the Frachasse family. Our interest is in two brothers. The first is the unmarried Mathieu; the second is Pierre. Pierre will enter our story as a married man, his wife being Marguerite Barrale.

By 31 October 1687, when this main refugee group arrives at Frankfurt.. The Frachasse family of two brothers and the wife of one of them probably traveled totally separately from all the others and have arrived on the 18th of the month, nine days before

Mathieu Frachasse, Pierre Frachasse & his wife Marguerite Barrale Lourmarin in Church Records: Genève 20.09.1687 Schaffhausen 05.10.1687 Frankfurt 18.10.1687. Only Mathieu Frachasse (26) is on the Dec 1687 proposed China ship list in Rotterdam. Matthieu arrives in the Cape, however the name.. Frachasse.. will not survive past the 18th century. http://members.shaw.ca/cliffwoodfogge/Documents/China4thEdition.pdf

Fracasse, Matthieu of Provence, born 1662, agriculturist at Drakenstein, arrived 1688 in Berg China ; married Jeanne Cordier, daughter of the Refugee Louis Cordier, q.v. He had a son Jean Fracasse, baptized 27th July, 1698, and a daughter Elizabeth, baptized 15th May, 1701 (probably died young). His third child was Susanna, who was living in Amsterdam in 1718, having been left a legacy by Matthieu Arniel, q.v. Matthieu Fracasse must have returned to Europe before 17 13, as his brother-in-law Jacques Cordier refers to him as being in Holland. https://archive.org/stream/frenchrefugeesat00both/frenchrefugeesat0...

Mathieu Frachas in Boucher

The settler Mathieu Frachas has been touched upon in connection with the Cordier family at the Cape. A man of twenty-six when he decided to emigrate to the Cape on the Berg China, his place of origin in Provence remains uncertain. It could have been Lourmarin, where an agriculturalist Antoine Frachas lived until his death in 1672. His daughter Susanne Frachasse was married at Velaux in April 1675 to Joseph Audi- bert of Merindol.1 • M. Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 7: Cape Settlers III: from South-Eastern France and Adjoining Territories p189