Louise Lombard, de Villiers

Louise Joubert (1699-1764) was the daughter of Pierre Joubert and Isabeau Ricarde and married twice, and the direct line to the Roux family was via her daughter, Johanna Lombard. Louise's first marriage was to Jean (Jan) Lombard in 1718. Johanna Lombard (1721-?), married Abraham de Villiers. Their daughter Margaretha (1741-1806) married Paul LII Roux (1722-1784). I hope this helps you. The full story is available via Ancestry24.co.za, under Roux. It is complex tracing these loose ends, due to the many children and marriages of our forebears. (Brian Vaughan Kenealy 15-9-2009). The second marriage was to Jacobus de Villiers.

Extract from DP de Villiers, A History of the De Villiers Family, Nationale Boekhandel Bpk, 1960:

Jacques de Villers' eldest son, Jean, died in infancy. Jacobus, the second son, baptised on 14.09.1699, married Louise Joubert, widow of Jan Lombard.

Nieuwedorp , a farm adjoining Goede Hoop, both Rhodes Fruit Farms at Groot Drakenstein today, was the home of Jacobus and Louise de Villiers. He died in 1734 at the age of 35 years. Why he died so young is not known. His will dated 20.01.1734 states that he was sick and in bed. I have a photo of an early Cape Dutch house, Nieuwedorp. It appears to have been an interim house, H-shaped with simple gables but with thick walls. The wall-cupboard from that house is now in the Lekkerwyn house, home of Mrs Pickstone. It is a beautiful example of early wall cupboards. This house has been demolished, and the Rhodes cottage is now standing approximately where this early de Villiers home once stood.

Jacobus and Louise had a family of four children. The eldest boy, Jacob, married Catherina Booysen, and is the ancestor of Brig JP de Villiers. Tielman Nieuwoudt de Villiers, first mayor of Pretoria, and Commissioner-General for the Transvaal Republic in Paris in 1889, and his brother Paul de Villiers, Treasurer-General of the same Republic, and Senator Bruckner de Villiers, were descendants of this branch.

The youngest son, Pieter, baptised on 23 June 1732 is that ancestor of mine who first owned La Provence in 1756. He married three times and had eighteen children!

Louise Joubert's will, and an inventory of what she possessed at Nieuwedorp, exists.
She left a slave girl, Catherine of Rio de la Goa, to her daughter Margaretha, and one called Clara van de Kaap, to her daughter Elisabeth. Johanna Lombard (daughter by her first husband Jan Lombard, and then married to her brother-in-law, Abraham de Villiers), was left a slave boy, called June van de Kaap. Her eldest son, Jacob, had a slave, called April van de Kaap bequeathed to him; and my ancestor, Pieter de Villiers, was willed a boy, Cupido van de Kaap. I wonder whether Cupido was the first slave labourer or house servant of the family at :La Provence since the earliest De Villiers ownership of the old farm?

Slaves born at the Cape was all given the "Surname" Van de Kaap" and not "Of the Cape" as originally stated here.

The size of Nieuwedorp was 300 morgen, and it was bequeathed to her eldest son, Jacob.

Louise died in 1764. The inventory of her belongings, dated 10 October 1764, indicates that she was comfortably off for those days.

Franschhoek, West Cape, South Africa noble de Villiers.

Pieter Daniel de Villiers and Johanna Jacoba de Villiers.

This lineage of Pieter de Villiers seem to be the clan of the De Villiers Family of the French Huguenots and Winemaking
Three brothers –

Pierre de Villiers (1657-1720), Jacques de Villiers (1661-1735) and Abraham de Villiers (1659-1720) – arrived in the Cape Colony aboard the Zion in 1689.

The French Huguenots farmed the wineries of these regions, this article below is a fantastic detailed history of these families.

Governor van der Stel enthusiastically greeted the fleet and settled the families in and around Stellenbosch and the Drakenstein valley, with some in an area that quickly became known as Franschhoek (French Corner), and others in nearby regions.[22] It was with the arrival of these refugees that wine making in the Cape Colony received the boost it needed.

From Viticulture to Commemoration: French Huguenot Memory in the Cape Colony (1688-1824)

LINK:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0047.007?view=text;rgn=main
Source:
The Journal of the Western Society for French History

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