Abraham Bleuset

Belusé, Bleuset or Bluse Abraham of Calais, born 1665; came in the Schelde in 1688, in 1692 was living in the Cape district unmarried, and in 1700 in Stellenbosch. An agriculturist, he married Elizabeth Posseaux of Paris, q.v., widow of Jacob Bisseux, q.v. He died on 25th July, 1735, and was buried near his wife. In his will, filed in 1735, he signs himself Bleuset, and is described as " compagnon " in farming with Jean Manier, q.v. His wife died in September, 1726, and was buried in the churchyard at Cape Town. She appears to have had children by her first husband only.

The French Refugees at the Cape. Botha Colin, Graham