Richard Ball - notes

"Botha, C.G. - The French Refugees at the Cape page 65 des Pres, Elizabeth, of Courtrai. She was sponsor on 24th May, 1688, to Charles Prevot, baptised on the Schelde."

Richard Ball names him as Charles, 6th child

"He is not mentioned as one of the three surviving children of Charles Prevot in the Inventory drawn up on 26th January 1697, after the death of Louis de Peronne, Maria le Febre's third husband, so he had presumably died before that date."

whereas

SAG Vol. 8 pi-Q pp 449 list him as b6 Jacques. CJB

Geslagsregisters van ou Kaapse Familieslists him as b5 Jacob CJB

Prevost in Boucher

Charles Prevost was born about the year 1650 to Henri Prevost and Jeanne de Fief. He came from a village described in the Guines registers as Dombroy, probably Dombrie, near Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, south-east of Lille towards Valenciennes. In 1673 he was working in Dunkirk as a master wheelwright and on October 8 of that year married Marie le Fevre, a year his junior and the daughter of David le Fevre and Elisabeth le Bleu of Marck. As all their children from France were born near Calais, it seems likely that their father left Dunkirk soon after his marriage.

The Prevosts were accompanied on the voyage to the Cape by a son Abraham, who celebrated his ninth birthday at sea, and by two younger daughters, Anne and Elisabeth. A second son Jacob was born on shipboard on May 29, 1688. Abraham was born at Marck on May 24, 1679, Anne in the same village on February 18, 1681 and Elisabeth. in the hamlet of Les Attaques, south of Marck, on October 31, 1683. Two other children died before the departure for the Cape: David, born at Marck on March 10, 1675, and Marie, born at lower Marck on February 10, 1678 and baptized in Calais a week later. Marie’s death is not recorded in the Guines registers, but David died at Marck on February 9, 1685, shortly before his tenth birthday.

Although Charles Prevost came from the Lille region, it would seem that the family was originally from the Calaisis, perhaps from Hames- Boucres, north-west of Guines. There were certainly branches there and in Calais itself. ..

• 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 pp253-4

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Birth ===::Date: 29 MAY 1688<ref name="text-85">added by Dina Vermaak May 5, 2013</ref>

Baptism ===::Date: 1688-05-24 [http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town..., Den 24 Maij is op 't schip de Schelde gedoopt en is genaamdt Jacob. De vader is Carel Provo de moeder is Mi de Febere, de getuijgen AarnoutSchrijteruit schipper, op voorn' schip, en Elisabeth du Pre.] <ref name="text-2">"The Genealogical Society of South Africa: eGSSA branch, South African Records Transcribed. A selection of historical records transcriptions. (http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/church-registers/cape-town...: accessed May 07, 2015) Cape Archives Verbatim Copies VC 603, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, baptisms 1665 to 1696. VC 603 is a photocopy made during the 1980s of the original, made for the Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and a copy was donated to the South African Archives, a copy going to the Cape Town repository and to the Pretoria Repository (where it is part of the FC series).The original register is now housed in the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, as G1 1/1.The transcription was originally made in 2006 by Richard Ball. Corrections were received from Delia Robertson and Alwyn Smit and Corney Keller had now completely revised and amended the original transcript (February 2012). Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier May 05, 2015.</ref>::Place: On Route<ref name="text-1">"The French refugees at the Cape": Graham Botha 1921 eddition: Provided by Jan Van Jaarsveld.Canberra: Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier May 07, 2015.

</ref>:: Place: In Table Bay aboard the ship De Schelde [South Africa]<ref name="text-85">added by Dina Vermaak May 5, 2013</ref><ref name="text-1">"The French refugees at the Cape": Graham Botha 1921 eddition: Provided by Jan Van Jaarsveld.Canberra: Seen andentered by Ronel Olivier May 07, 2015.</ref>

Events ===::Charles of Calais, his wife Marie le Fevre, born 1651, with their three children Abraham, Anne and Elizabeth Prevot, arrived from Amsterdam in 1688 in the Schelde. On the arrival of the latter in Table Bay a son (baptised on board Charles) was born, one of his sponsors being Elizabeth des Pres.

::Charles Prevot was deceased by July,1688, as there is an entry then of the widow of " Carel Provo." (Charles moes waarskynlik gedurende die vaart van Nederland na die Kaap of baie kort na sy aankoms gesterf het. Volges die DAS besonderhede vir die Schelde in 1688 het die skip Wielingen op 19 Februarie 1688 verlaat en eers byna 4 maande later op 5Junie 1688 in die Kaap arriveer) In 1690 his widow, remarried in 1688to Hendrik Eekhoff of Essen, received assistance for herself and fourchildren. She married for the third time Louis de Perrone, q.v., by whom she had two children.<ref name="text-1">""The French refugees at the Cape": Graham Botha 1921 eddition: Provided by Jan Van Jaarsveld.Canberra: Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier May 07,2015 </ref> ::Botha referrers to this child as Charles. I added Baptismal to the information In Table Bay aboard the ship 'De Schelde' South Africa. He was born somewhere on route, if the birth date was May 1688 because the arival date for the " Schelde" was 5 Junie 1688. He was then baptized in Tabel bay on board the "Schelde."<ref name="text-335">Ronel Olivier </ref>

Sources

* WikiTree profile Prévot-27 through the import of Vermaak Family Site - 05 May 2013.GED on May 5, 2013 by Dina Vermaak .Record : ID Number: MH:I4090. User : ID: 4E1D7F97-DD21-418A-80E0-8806C3EB31EE. UPD : 28 JUL 2010 16:12:57 GMT+2.

See Provo-51 for pre-merge edit of the bio. Van der Walt-440 15:26, 11 August 2016 (EDT)

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