Pieter Marais

Added his daughter thx to Daan Botes..

Aletta Johanna de Bruyn

Baptism 1730

Civil death registration

INCORRECT DVN

"b2c2d5" “SA Genealogies” vol 5, Genealogical Institute of SA, Stellenbosch, 1999” page 432

CORRECTED DVN b1c1d5 see document attached to his father http://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000024725638250 CJB

This baptism 26 December 1726 belongs to an earlier sibling not him ; all very confusing dates here : Today baptism (25/03/1726) at Drakenstein [Paarl] of Pieter (Petrus) MARAIS (1726-1775) A descendant of French Protestant refugees that fled Louis XIVs France & unceremoniously dumped (1688) by the Dutch Republic at the Cape of Good Hope …

His own great-grandfather Charles Marais Sr. (from Le Plessis-Marly [Longvilliers, Hurepoix Isle de France] was the 1st Huguenot to die (1689) at the Cape … an iconic moment … murdered in a shower of stones by the indigenes (Hottentots / Khoikhoi) of the land where he had sought refuge on his farm "Le Plessis-Marly" [now Plaisir-de- Merle] - named after the estate where he was born & belonging to the great freedom fighter Seigneur du Plessis-Marly - Philippe de Mornay aka Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623), outspoken French diplomat & well-known publicist for the Protestant cause during the French Wars of Religion (1562–98) & thought to have authored (1579) “Vindiciae contra tyrannos (“A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants”) ...

Notwithstanding his ancestors brutal killing, he mastered the Khoi (Hottentot) language undertaking a key exploratory expedition as interpreter into the African interior in the years 1761/1762 … He farmed at the historic farm "Kunnenburg" serving as heemraad & deacon at Drakenstein dying (1776) in the Netherlands while making representations to the Classis in Amsterdam concerning a serious long-standing rift within the Drakenstein congregation …

Otto F. Mentzel writes (1787) the following about him: “The Commando or expedition sent out in the years 1761/62, to obtain information about and look for a people called Damroquas or Birinas that wore clothes and had long hair and beards, was more suitable for this purpose than all previous expeditions, for besides the fact that they went farthest North, they had an African-born colonist with them called Peter Marais, who could speak both Dutch and the Hottentot language fluently and as a result, could speak to these tribes himself without an interpreter and inquire about everything.” [Mansell Upham]

Baptism 1730

Marriage 1755

Pieter Marais

SEE baptism of his daughter 1768 !!!

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-W9WT-N?cc=147...