Francina Bevarnagie, SM/PROG

Francine Bevernagie

Married to Jaques Mouton, 8 October 1700 in Cape Town

Susanna Mouton born 1703 in Drakenstein

Marriage 2. Jacob Friedrich Zoin (1719 -1754) on 12 Sep 1751

AKA Francina de Bevernage

Emigration on the ship "Helmeet" 1700, nederbrakel, Oudenare, Flanders.

Jacques Mouton of Steenkerken [Steenwerck?], Belgium. was divorced from Catherine l'Hermite who was remarried in Europe to Pierre le Roy. He [Mouton] had three children with his first wife, that is Jacques, Antoine and Marie-Jeanne. They remained in Europe with their mother.

He also had three children with Marie de Villiers, of La Rochelle or Guines, France † ca 1699. She is possibly the Marie de Villiers born on 9.11.1673, and baptised on 12.11.1673 at Guines, France as the daughter of Jean de Villiers and Francoise Joing; x Belgium (Flanders) Jacques Mouton of Steenkerken ,Belgium. The children were Madeleine and Marie (who was born in Middelburg, The Netherlands) and Marguerite who was born on board ship. They arrived at the Cape on 20.7.1699 on board the Donkervliet. His wife (Marie de Villiers) died either on board ship or soon after their arrival, because he is described in [official ?] documents as a widower.

He married a third time on 8.10.1700, to Francina Bevernagie. He is the progenitor of the South African Mouton family and was among the early residents of the "Land van Waveren" (Tulbagh). Juna Malherbe and Alet Malan, compiler, Genealogy of the DeVilliers Family in South Africa (Franschoek, South Africa: Board of Trustees, De Villiers Publications Fund, 1999), Page 877 http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5194.htm

The regions of Flemish speech in what is now Belgium, with an overspill into north-eastern France, present particular difficulties. Some settlers from towns and villages here may not have spoken French at all; others were perhaps bilingual. Are we justified in following Botha by including the Bevernagie family among the French speakers, even though closely associated with that group? Joost Bevernagie, born about the year 1680, arrived in 1700 as a colonist on the Helmeet. With him at the Cape was a younger brother Theunis, born about 1691, and an older sister Francina, mentioned earlier in connection with Jacques Mouton [Mouton was married for a third time on October 8, 1700 to Francina Bevernagie]] She was known to the author Otto Friedrich Mentzel before 1740 as a lively old lady in her seventies. The Bevernagies were from Nederbrakel, east of Courtrai, and their names suggest a Flemish background. A https://www.geni.com/people/Jean-Bevernagie/6000000001634145405?through=6000000001634145399 Jan Bevernagie is also listed at the Cape in 1706.

• 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 p263; p275

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Francina Bevernagie was also known as Fransijntir Bevermaase.4 2 September 1703, the name of Francina was written in the record as Francoise Bevernage.5 Between 12 May 1709 and 17 December 1713, the name of Francina was written in the record as Francina van Bevernage.6 11 November 1714, the name of Francina was written in the record as Francina Mitton

Came from Flanders