Pierre Roux

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There was a Pierre Roux at Cabrieres after the revocation whose wife was Madeleine Goirande.[Registre des naissances, mariages et deces, Cabrieres-d’Aigues, 1686-1718 (AC Cabrieres-d’Aigues). The baptism of Pierre, son of Pierre Roux and Madeleine Goirande, took place on July 12, 1686.] [file:///C:/Users/Sharon/Downloads/Boucher__M__086981222X__Section6%20(3).pdf M Boucher 'French speakers at the Cape p186]

...In addition to the Rousse girls, there were two settlers from Provence named Roux at the Cape: Pierre and Jean. The former came from Cabrieres-d'Aigues, or possibly from nearby La Motte. He was the son of another Pierre Roux who had died before 1684 and on October 21 of that year began an apprenticeship with Jacques Rippert as a wool carder. Roux was known as Gay and it is this sobriquet which serves to identify him as the Drakenstein agriculturalist, for he used it to sign a testimonial of 1691 drawn up on behalf of the minister Pierre Simond.191 We have already mentioned one Pierre Roux of Cabrieres in connection with the Goirand family; there were others in the region and, significantly, Daniel and Antoine, sons of a Pierre Roux of La Motte, by trade faisseurs a toille (sic), or cloth workers. The Ripperts were allied with both the Roux and Jourdan families. It is not known on which ship Pierre travelled to the Cape, although he was an early arrival. He was perhaps the Pierre Roux who was received by the Walloon church in Amsterdam on March 21, 1688.• 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