Rev. Samuel Rolland

He was the son of a captain of engineers in Napoleon’s army and became a French (Protestant) missionary based at Beersheba in the Freestate. He and his wife Elizabeth (1803-1901) worked amongst the South Sotho people for some 28 years, that is, until during the second Freestate Sotho war (in 1858) President Boshoff and the Freestate Volksraad declared that all missionaries be evicted from the Freestate. The mission station was destroyed and they moved to Aliwal North and it seems spent some time with Joseph and Elise at Avoca. During his time at Beersheba, he started the first translation of the bible into Sesotho.

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Prosper Lemue was a pioneer French Protestant missionary in South Africa. The first French recruit of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS), as recommended by the Reformed pastor Antoine Colani, he left in 1829 for southern Africa with Isaac Bisseux and Samuel Rolland. John Philip, the London Missionary Society (LMS) superintendent at the Cape, first directed Lemue to Caffraria, but he finally settled in Botswana

http://www.dacb.org/stories/southafrica/lemue_prosper.html

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Rev S Rolland of the Paris Missionary Society

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