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* Francois du Toit, (c 1664 - 1734) from Lille, Flandre came to the Cape 23/6/1686 on the 'Vrijheijt', and settled at DeKleine Bosch, Daljosaphat. He married on 12/02/1690 Suzanne Seugnat.
Core profiles
Francois du Toit, SV/PROG x Suzanne Seugnet, SM/Prog
b1Geertruy c 1690 - 19 Nov 1750
b2Andries c 1691 - c 1749
b3Susanna c 1692
b4 Helena bef 8 May 1695
b5 Pierre du Toit bef 9 Mar 1697-16 May 1768
x Elisabeth Rossouwb5c1 Francois du Toit 3.5.1717
x 22.1.1741 Petronella van der Merweb5c1d1 Pieter (Pierre) Edouard Du Toit (13 Oct 1741 -15 Jan 1815)
x 21 April 1765 Maria Catharina Botha (1749 -1810)b5c1d1e5 Christoffel Du Toit (<25 Dec 1773 -13 Sep 1826)
x 1796 Aletta Elizabeth Viljoen (1776 - 1852) (do Jacobus Petrus Viljoen & Hermina Conradie)b5c1d1e5f1 Petrus Jacobus 12 June 1797
b5c1d1e5f2 Christoffel Francois “Stoffel” (25 Dec 1798 - 2 Aug1883)
x 1826 Elizabeth Jacoba van der Merwe (1807 -1827)
b5c1d1e5f2g1 Christoffel Francois Jacobus Du Toit 1826
xx 1828 Martha "Martjie" Johanna Pienaar (1810 1884)
b5c1d1e5f2g2 Johannes Petrus “Jan” Du Toi 1830
b5c1d1e5f2g3 Aletta 1833
b5c1d1e5f2g4 Petrus Johannes “Piet” Du Toit (17 May 1836 - 3 Feb 1912)
x 3 Sep1855 Anna Susanna Catharina du Plessis (1839- 1907)
b5c1d1e5f2g4h1 Christoffel Francois du Toit (07 October 1858 - 07 August 1928)b5c1d1e5f2g4h12 Petrus Johannes Du Toit (15 April 1870 - 15 June 1959)
x 27 March 1899 Rachel Elizabeth Scholtz (1879 -1966)b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i1 Petrus 1900
b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i2 Annalene
b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i3 Jacoba
b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i4 Susanne Corilli (1910 - 2006) x Smith
b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i5 Elsie
b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i6 Estelle
b5c1d1e5f2g4h2i7Aletta 1922xx 13.12.1750 Anna Jordaan, wed. v. Jacobus van Heerden
b5c2 Pieter du Toit b. c 1719
b5c3 Anna du Toit16 b. b 2 Aug 1722
b5c4 Andries du Toit17 b. b 31 Dec 1724
b5c5 Susanna du Toit b. b 10 Aug 1727
x2 May 1745 Willem van der Merwe (so Carel van der Merwe and Geertruy du Toit)
b5c6 Daniel du Toit19 b. b 25 Dec 1729
b5c7Johannes du Toit20 b. b 26 Dec 1731b6Francois bef 28 Jun 1699
b7 Martha du Toit bef 4 Nov 1701
b8 Stephanus bef c 1703
b9 Elisabeth bef 9 Aug 1705 - 5 Jan 1789
b10 Marie bef 21 Sep 1709 - c 1732
Overview of Family History / Progenitor Details
The brothers Guillaume and Francois Dutoit of Lille, who reached the Cape in 1686, both probably on the Vrijheijt which anchored on June 23, were, however, clearly French speakers.
Dutoits are known to have emigrated to Leyden as early as 1605 .. In September 1678 a Guillaume Dutoit, with his wife and daughter Marguerite, brought an attestation from the Leyden church. Whether this is the Cape settler has not been ascertained, but the Guillaume Dutoit who became a member of the Walloon congregation of Middelburg on December 20, 1684 must certainly have been the future Stellenbosch farmer. Lille records confirm the family ties with Leyden. S.F. du Toit has discovered in the French city the baptismal entry of a Francois Dutoit who was probably the Cape settler. The son of Pierre Dutoit and Marie Rousel(le), he was baptized in the church of the Madeleine on September 15, 1664, with Jean Brian and Catherine Rousel(le) as godparents. However, it must be added that another Francois Dut(h)oit was christened in the church of Saint-Maurice in Lille on April 5, 1665. With reference to the first baptism, a Pierre Dutoi(c)t was christened at Saint-Maurice on October 28, 1639 and two girls Marie Rousel at the Madeleine church on January 19, 1634 and on October 1, 1641. The name Guillaume Dutoit appears in seventeenth-century records for the Lille area, but there is no apparent connection with the exile at Middel- burg and the Cape. The Dutoits evidently had a sister and a brother, Bruno. On March 17, 1693 a Bruno-Joseph Duthoy (sic) was baptized at the Madeleine church." As throughout the Spanish Netherlands, the Calvinists of Lille were compelled to make use of Catholic facilities for the registration of baptisms, marriages and deaths. That Guillaume Dutoit was an older man than Francois is suggested by the fact that he was engaged to the widow Sara Cochet, one of whose sons Abraham came to the Cape in 1688 as a soldier in the company’s service aboard the Oosterland.
- Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp261-2
Queries & Discussion
Possible Parents: Pierre du Toit and Marie du Toit
Provided by Private User Pierre Du Toit; born 28 October 1630, La Madeleine, Lille. Date and place of death unknown, but probably Leyden, Dutch Republic.
Pierre Du Toit married Marie Rousselle (born 19 January 1633 at Lille, died ca 1670 at Lille or Leyden). Pierre and Marie Du Toit had five children (Guillaume, Marie Anne, Marie Suzanne, Bruno and Francois Du Toit).
Pierre and Marie’s son Francois was baptised in La Madeleine Church at Lille on 15 September 1664, or perhaps at the adjacent parish Church of Saint Maurice on 5 April 1665. The likelihood is that the Francois baptised at La Madeleine is our Du Toit ancestor, as his godparents are recorded as being Jean Brian and Catherine Rousselle – perhaps a sister or other relative of Francois’ mother Marie Du Toit (nee Rouselle).
Pierre Du Toit appears to have left Lille, but whether before or after the death of his wife Marie is unknown. Perhaps he and the family were war refugees, fleeing the siege lines around Lille in the Summer of 1667. Alternatively, they may have survived the siege within the walls, and left the city some time after Lille was ceded to France by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668).
What we can say with some certainty is that Pierre Du Toit and family seem to have settled in Leyden (Leiden) for some time. There was a significant and prosperous Protestant community at Leyden, and amongst them were Du Toits who had been there since at least 1605. Whether these Du Toits were relatives of Pierre Du Toit has not been possible to establish with certainty.
There is an attestation dated September 1678 in the Leyden Reformed Church record of a Guillaume Du Toit, his wife and a daughter Marguerite. While this Guillaume Du Toit may be Pierre Du Toit’s son Guillaume, it is perhaps unlikely as he would probably have been born no earlier than about 1655, making him rather young (23) to have been married and had a daughter by 1678.
Though it is the subject of some academic debate amongst Du Toit researchers (cf Prof. Pieter Coertzen: The Huguenots of 1688-1988, Tafelberg Publishers 1988), the Guillaume Du Toit who became a member of the Walloon Congregation at Middelburg Reformed Church on 20 December 1684 is probably Pierre Du Toit’s son, the older brother of Francois Du Toit, and the Guillaume Du Toit who was granted a farm in Stellenbosch at the Cape some years later.
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Resources
- Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp261-2
- http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g7/p7220.htm#c7220.3
- http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/dutoit/I049.html
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