“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly moulded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.” David Brooks

The Story Teller

(We Are The Chosen)

My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors.

To put flesh on their bones and make them live again,

To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve.

To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead,

Breathing life into all who have gone before.

We are the story tellers of the tribe.

We have been called as it were by our genes.

Those who have gone before cry out to us:

"Tell our story."

So we do.

In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.

How many graves have I stood before now and cried.

I have lost count.

How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us.

How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me.

I cannot say.

It goes beyond just documenting facts.

It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do.

It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can’t let this happen.

The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

It goes to doing something about it.

It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish.

How they contributed to what we are today.

It goes to respecting their hardships and losses,

their never giving in or giving up.

Their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family.

It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation.

It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us

That we might be born who we are.

That we might remember them.

So we do.

With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence,

Because we are them and they are us.

So, as scribe called, I tell the story of my family.

It is up to that one called in the next generation,

To answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers.

That is why I do my family genealogy,

And that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.

~ by Della M. Cummings Wright and re-written by her grand daughter, Della JoAnn McGinnis Johnson~

___________________

Surnames at 4 Generations:

• Anderson (Scotland)
• Bode/ Botha (Lower Saxony, Germany)
• Dadswell (Surrey/Sussex/Kent, England)
• Doubell (Kent, England)
• Hawkins (Oxfordshire, England)
• Hulley (Yorkshire, England)
• Jones (St Helena)
• McBride (Tipperary, Ireland)
• O’Conner (Limerick, Ireland)
• Peebles (Scotland?)
• Pienaar/ Pinnard (Nantes, France)
• Smuts (Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands)
• Theron/d (Languedoc, France)
• Weidemann (Copenhagen,Denmark)

Surnames at 6 Generations:

• Abrahamse Van de Cust * Brangan * Brink * Burger * De Lange * Dippenaar * Doig * Fairweather * Fleet * Hemsley * Hine * Howard * Jacobs * Lombard * Lubbe * Merry * Nel * Nienaber * Nieuwoudt * Overbeek * Robins *Sharpe *Smith * Steenberg * Viljoen * Wallendorf * Wheatley * Willemse * Woodward * Wright

Surnames at 8 Generations:

• Aldridge * Aris * Beetge * Bode * Burchill * Campher * Coetzer * Cornelisz * Delport * De Kock * De Mauragnault * Du Plessis * Du Toit * Ferreyn * Fourie * Gouche * Gouws * Griesel * Grove * Gunckler * Heath * Hitchman * Hubner * Immens * Janssen * Johansen * Jordaan * Launchberry * Malan * Mare * Martindale * Meisnard * Minnaar * Mouy * Nauta * Otto * Pelser * Rauchfuss * Rijkvoet * Russell * Scholtz * Siek * Smit * Steenkamp * Taylor * Turner * Van Eck * Van Ellewee * Vorster * Van Heerden * Van Wyk * Van de Caab * Van de Merwe * Von Wielligh * Watkins * Whittle

1820 Settler Progenitors:

via Rev. Patrick Arthur Turner McBride

• Richard William Hulley. SV/PROG‎ – 2nd great grandfather - Richardson's Party
• x Sarah Ann Brangan Hulley SM/PROG – 2nd great grandmother - Richardson's Party
  • Francis Turner Hulley– great grandfather - Richardson's Party
• Joseph Wright, SV/PROG‎ – 2nd great grandfather - Calton's Party
• x Elizabeth "Betsy" Wright, SM/PROG– 2nd great grandmother - Calton's Party

via Joel Michael Doubell

• Michael George Doubell, SV/PROG - great grandfather
• William Howard – 2nd great grandfather - Howard's Party

French Huguenot Progenitors:

Surnames:
Buisset Cochet Cordier Courbonne d'Atis de la Batte de la Porte de Savoye de Vos des Pres du Plessis du Rand du Toit Fouche Fourie Gauch Jacobs Jourdaan le Clercq le Febre le Long Marais Mare Martinet Menentau Mesnard Nel Pinard Prevot Retief Rousseau Seugnat Souchay Tabourdeaux Terrier Therond Viljoen Vitu Vivier

via Joel Michael Doubell

• Louis Cordier, Snr‎ – 8th great grandfather
  • Louis Cordier, SV/PROG‎ – 7th great grandfather
  • x Francoise Martinet, SM/PROG – 7th great grandmother
    • Suzanne Fourie, SM‎ – 6th great grandmother
    • x Louis Fourie, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• Sarah Barentsz Cochet, SM/PROG – 7th great grandmother*
  • Jannetje de Clercq, SM‎ – 6th great grandmother
  • x Andrè Gauch, SV/PROG‎ – 6th great grandfather
• Guillaume Nel, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• x Jeanne de la Batte SM/PROG– 6th great grandmother

via Johanna Elizabeth Doubell

• Louis Cordier, Snr‎ – 7th great grandfather
  • Louis Cordier, SV/PROG‎ – 6th great grandfather
  • x Francoise Martinet, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
    • Louisa Cordier – 5th great grandmother
• Pierre Jacobs, SV/PROG‎ – 6th great grandfather
• x Suzanne de Vos, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
  • Sara Jacob – 7th great grandmother
  • x Daniel Jan Terrier, SV/PROG‎ – 7th great grandfather
• Sarah Barentsz Cochet, SM/PROG, SM/PROG‎ – 7th great grandmother
  • Jannetje de Clercq, SM‎ – 6th great grandmother
• Charles Prevot SV/PROG – 7th great grandfather
• x Marie le Fébre SM/PROG – 7th great grandmother
  • Anne Prévost – 6th great grandmother
• Philippe Foucher, SV/PROG – 7th great grandfather
• x Anne Souchay, SM/PROG – 7th great grandmother
  • Anne Jourdan, SM - 6th great grandmother
  • x Pierre Jourdan, de Cabrières SV/PROG 3‎ – 6th great grandfather
• Charles Marais, SV/PROG‎ – 7th great grandfather
• x Catherine Marais, SM/PROG‎ – 7th great grandmother
  • Marie-Madeleine Marais, b4 SM – 6th great grandmother
  • x Estienne Niel, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• Jacques Pinard, SV/PROG‎ – 6th great grandfather
• x Esther "Hester" Foucher, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
• Dr. Jean Prieur du Plessis, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• x Madeleine Menanteau, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
• xx Marie Buisset, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
• Francois Viljoen – 6th great grandfather
• Jacques de Savoye, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• x Marguerite -Thérèse de Savoye, b4 PROG1 – 5th great grandmother
• Jean Jourdan, de Belle Etoile SV/PROG I – 6th great grandfather
• x Isabeau 'Elizabeth' le Long, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
• Hercules des Prez, SV/PROG‎ – 6th great grandfather
• x Cecilia d'Atis, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
  • Marie-Jeanne des Prez, b4 SM – 5th great grandmother
  • x Jacques Therond, SV/PROG – 5th great grandfather
  • Jacquemine Vivier– 6th great grandmother
  • x Abraham Vivier II. SV/PROG, – 6th great grandfather
• Francois du Toit, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• x Suzanne Seugnet, SM/Prog – 6th great grandmother
• Pierre Rousseau, SV/PROG – 6th great grandfather
• x Anne Retif, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
• Jacques De la Porte, SV/PROG‎ – 5th great grandfather
• x Sara Vitu, SM/PROG‎ – 5th great grandmother
• Jean Mesnard, SV/PROG – 5th great grandfather
• x Louise Courbonne, SM/PROG – 5th great grandmother
  • Philippe Mesnard – 4th great grandmother
• Jean Durand, SV/PROG – 5th great grandfather
• Louis Fourie, SV/PROG – 5th great grandfather
• Ignatius Maré, SV/PROG – 5th great grandfather

Slave Progenitors

via Joel Michael Doubell

• Lijsbeth Arabus, SM/PROG – 8th great grandmother
  • Lijsbeth Sandersz van de Kaap, SM – 7th great grandmother
  • x Louis van Bengale– 7th great grandfather
    • Maria Louisz, SM – 6th great grandmother
• Catharina (Catrijn) van Malabar, SM/PROG – 5th great grandmother
• Jan Abrahamse van de Cust, SV/PROG‎ – 3rd great grandfather
• x Rosina van de Caab, SM– 3rd great grandmother

via Johanna Elizabeth Doubell

• 'Maaij' Claesje van Angola – 7th great grandmother
  • Sara van Gijselen, SM – 6th great grandmother
• Ansela van de Caap, SM/PROG – 6th great grandmother
  • Cornelis Campher, b1‎ – 5th great grandfather

https://www.geni.com/projects/Scratchpad-French-Huguenot-Ancestry/38266

Biography

Sharon Lee Doubell was born on December 26, 1964 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her parents were Dion Andre Doubell and Patricia Thelma McBride Doubell. She was a Psychologist, specialising in children & teenagers, and a High School English Head of Department.

Sharon married Michael David Robins on December 8, 1984 in Edenvale, Johannesburg, South Africa and they divorced in April 2005. Together they had the following children: Shaylene Tricia Doubell-Robins Palmeira; Dayne Michael Robins.

Sharon married Anthony Robert Leach, a mining engineer & geologist on September 1, 2006 in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa. Together they had 6 grandkids: Amelia Isabella Weyers, Olivia Sandy Robins, Niklaus Victor Doubell-Robins Rodrigues Palmeira, Ethan Lucas Weyers, Alexa Lee Robins and Eléna Rey Doubell-Robins Rodrigues Palmeira. Tony died from an aggressive Melanoma on 2 Nov 2021.

My Gedmatch Kit No:

• Sharon Doubell - HQ1521900

Parents' Gedmatch Kit Nos:

• Dion Doubell - T432826
• Patricia Doubell - T390202

Husband's Gedmatch Kit No:

• Tony Leach - T169859

Children's Gedmatch Kit Nos:

• Shay Palmeira - LA2207653
• Dayne Robins - UU1096916

Grandchildren's Gedmatch Kit Nos:

• Niklaus Palmeira - HM7424015
• Olivia Robins - BX1204100

  ---

https://www.geni.com/code-of-conduct