Jean Roux

In addition to the Rousse girls, there were two settlers from Provence named Roux at the Cape: Pierre and Jean. .. The second Roux, Jean, was born about the year 1665 at Lourmarin. In his will, drawn up on February 17, 1705, more than thirty years before his death, he left half of his estate to his father Philippe, then living in Lourmarin at the age of sixty-eight. Philippe was probably the son of Jean Roux of Lourmarin and nephew of Andre Roux, known locally as le mascle, a meridional variant of “little man”. Philippe Roux had brothers Jean, a shoemaker, and Antoine. Jean, the shoemaker, made his way at the revocation to Marseilles, where he abjured on November 3, 1685 before the Recollect, Thomas Croset. Antoine Roux was married to Catherine Cavallier. Christian names are repetitive in these village families; nor was it unusual, in a period of high mortality among women of child-bearing age, for husbands to remarry. There are references to the marriage of a Philippe Roux to Anne Savatiere of Lourmarin and of a second man so named to Honorade Gardiol(le). Jean Roux of Drakenstein seems to have stemmed from one of these marriages; perhaps the latter, as the Gardiol family was also represented at the Cape. Like Pierre Roux, Jean was an early arrival in Table Bay. There was a Jean Roux in Amsterdam in 1686, married to Dauphine Parise. A son Nicolas was born to them there in November 1687.

• 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 p192