http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g11/p11675.htm

Gournai or de Gournay, Salomon, came in the Zuid Beveland in 1688, an agriculturist at Drakenstein; in 1694 was granted by Governor van der Stel the farm Salomon's Valley at Drakenstein. He married Anna Martin, widow of Jean du Puis (du Puys), and had a child in 1693. His eldest brother, Jean de Gournay, was living in 1712 in London, where Salomon returned in 1718. He held the office of elder in the Drakenstein congregation. Signed himself as de Gournay.

- Colin Graham Botha, The French Refugees at the Cape. Published 1921 on http://debuys.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html

Distribution List 18 - 19 April 1690

Cape of Good Hope

'Salomon Gournai [with other bachelors] each .......f130'

'Salomons Valleij' granted

1692

Drakenstein, Cape of Good Hope

Old Stellenbosch Freehold, Volume 1:379 de Gournay, Salomon. Salomons Vallei, on Wilde Paarde River (40) 21.10.1694. Granted 1692.

- Botha, C Graham: The French Refugees at the Cape, 2nd Ed 1921 on http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/4364/

Monsterrol 1695

't District Drakenstein

p 151 'Salomon Gouverne & Anna Martijn 1 k.'

Monsterrol van de vrije luijden opgemaaket 23 Januarij 1702

't District Drakenstein

p 8 'Salomon de Gorne & Anna Dupuij'

Monsterrol 1712

't District Drakenstein

p 253 'Salomon de Gourne' no wife

Monsterrol 31 Dec 1713

't District Drakenstein

• p 275 'Steven Bruere & Susanna du Pui' [last line on page, then at the top of the next page]
• p 276 'Salomon de Gourne' no wife

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Request ... omme te repatrieeren

1718 11 Jan

Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

Dingsdagh den 11e Januarij 1718, voormiddags. - In overweginge genomen zijnde 't versoek bij den landbouwer Salamon de Gournaij, [3] in 't volgende request gedaan: [4]

Aan - - - Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes - - - benevens den E. Achtbe. Politicquen Raad.

Wel Edele Gestrenge Heer en E. Agtbe. Heeren,

Geeft met schuldige eerbiedigheijd te kennen Uwe Wel Edele Gestr. en E. Achtbe. schultpligtigen dienaar, Salamon de Gournee, hoe hij supplt. in den jaare 1688 met het schip Beeverland voor vrijman alhier aangeland wesende, sigh sedert dien tijd als landbouwer aan Drakensteijn g'erneert heeft, dan als nu genegen sijnde omme te repatrieeren; soo keert den supplt. sigh tot Uwe Wel Edele Gestr. en E. Achtbe., seer ootmoedigh versoekende dat hem magh werden toegestaan omme met een der scheepen van de aanstaande retourvloot naar het vaderland te mogen keeren, en in de constapels camer gelogeert te werden.

(Onderstond) 't Welk doende &a.

Is goedgevonden denselven bij deesen t' accordeeren met een der aanstaande retourscheepen naar 't vaderland te mogen navigeeren, onder betalinge van behoorlijke transport en kostgebd.

- Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa Reference code: C. 44, pp. 78-105. on http://databases.tanap.net/cgh/

Met attestatie na Londen

20 Jan 1718

Cape of Good Hope

'Salomon De Gorne met attestatie den 20ste jan: 1718 vertrokken na Londen

- Botha, C Graham: The French Refugees at the Cape, 2nd Ed 1921 Drakenstein Congregation - Membership Register p112

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Named in

• Reference no.: MOOC10/1.60 Testator(s): Gideon le Gran 4 October 1710
• Reference no.: MOOC10/1.69 Testator(s): Anna Fouche Philip Fouche 11 Meij 1711

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de Gournays in Boucher

Coastal Normandy provided the Cape settlement with several colonists. Among those on the Suijdbeveland was Salomon de Gournay. He came from the port and textile manufacturing town of Dieppe and would seem to have been resident there after the revocation. A schoolmaster Abraham de Gournay was also still in Dieppe after October 1685 and it is possible that he was the Cape settler’s father. p121

• Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 5: Cape settlers I: from the Loire to the Channel