Antoine Gros

Antoine Gros - a French Huguenot from Soubeyran, Dauphine, France - arrives in the Cape on 'de Schelde' on 5/6/1688. No further information

• http://www.huguenot.co.za/heritage/voc-ships/
• http://huguenots-france.org/france/refuge/afrique_sud/embarques.htm

Antoine Gros in Boucher

... the refugee Antoine Gros, whose departure for the Cape is also noted at Amsterdam on December 21, 1687. He is probably the refugee of that name who brought an attestation to the Walloon church there from Geneva on May 26, 1683.83 Did he have a wife who followed later from France, or who fell sick on the way? The wife of an Antoine Gros was helped by the Genevan authorities on August 24, 1687.84 If the Cape settler were indeed her husband she must have died before he left Europe. There were members of this family at Pontaix and an Antoine Gros, father of a family, at Valdrome in the Gapencais colloquy.The needy refugee at Geneva, however, did not come from either of these places, but from a locality which, although difficult to decipher, is probably Soubeira (Soubeyran) *.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 p180