Pieter de Villiers

He was a wine farmer at La Provence, Franschhoek which he bought in 1756.

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

Pieter de Villiers, baptised on 23 June 1732 was first married on 27 April 1755 to Susanna du Buisson, by whom he had two sons; secondly on 26 April 1761, to Elisabeth Strydom (whose mother was Rachel Roux). There were thirteen children, five boys and eight girls, born in this second marriage. I am descended from the second son, Pieter Daniel in this Pieter de Villiers - Elisabeth Strydom union. I have a very complete set of documents about this ancestor of mine. He was the grandson of Pierre Joubert and Isabeau Rickard, first owners of La Provence. He acquired the farm in 1756. Pieter died at La Provence on 2 Nov 1797 at 8pm aged 64 years and 5 months. Elisabeth Strydom had pre-deceased him on 27 May 1788, at La Provence, aged 45 years and 10 days. She was buried on 29 May. Elisabeth Strydom was half French, half Dutch, This was the first infusion of Dutch blood in our family i.e. in the third generation, or second South African generation.

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