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Maria Couteau 1 born circa 1659, Soudiere in the Dauphine 2 died 1 April 1718 3 will dated 18 December 1717 Notes: Her place of birth was given in her will as Soudiere in Dauphine. Maurice Boucher, in his book French Speakers at the Cape, 1981, describes this as 'an inaccurate transcription in the Dutch East India Company Records' but the place name is as written down by the notary Jan Mahieu, presumably writing down what he heard from the lips of Marie Couteau herself as she lay on her sick bed in her house in Drakenstein that afternoon in January 1709, when she and her husband made their joint will. One assumes it was rather a mishearing - spoken d and b are easily confused. Boucher suggests that it was most likley 'Soubiera, the old form of the modern Soubeyran, near Crest in the strongly Calvinist Drôme valley region ... north-west of Valdrôme. Marie Coutau made a later will on 18th Decmber 1717 when she is described as the widow of Pieter Lombart and once again sick. She died possibly in 1718 for, although this will, number 97, contains no filing date, the wills filed on either side of it were made in 1718 and therefore cannot have been filed earlier than 1718 and will number 123 in the same file was filed in June 1720. C.G.Botha, in French Refugees, states that she died 1st April, 1718 but does not give a source for this information. LOMBARD. Pierre Lombard of Pontaix in Dauphine and his wife Marie Couteau (listed here as Contaux) were at Frankfurt in November 1687. They were accompanied by a child and by Pierre’s sister Madeleine {Magdelaine). There is no mention of the mother Eve mentioned in Dutch records, but the Lombards were evidently travelling with a member of the wife’s family, Barthelemy Couteau, and his four children. The Couteaus came from La Chaudiere South of Pontaix, from which place the brothers Daniel and Pierre Couteau, wool carders, reached Frankfurt in September 1687. The Lombards and Barthelemy Couteau brought attestations from Morges, the Swiss town on Lake Geneva, that they were in good standing with the Reformed Church. (FRANKFURT AM MAIN AND THE CAPE REFUGEES M. Boucher, IN HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA BULLETIN 19, 1981, page 12)

married Pierre Lombard circa 1658-1714 farmer (1709) 4 of Drakenstein 5

Pieter b. c1689 Claudine c1690 - c1749 children Anthonij c1693 - c1750 children Mariane b.1695 Jean b. c1698 Eva b.1699

children of Maria Couteau and Pierre Lombard Pieter Lombard 6 born circa 1689 Notes: His aged was given as 20 years in his parents' will dated the 8th January 1709. Claudine Lombard circa 1690-circa 1749 born circa 1690 died circa 1749, (date of Inventory)  married (1) David du Buisson 7 died circa 1722  married (2) 15 August 1728 Drakenstein Gerrit van Hoeting died circa 1752 of Drakenstein Anthonij Lombard circa 1693-circa 1750 born circa 1693 died circa 1750  married 7 February 1717 Drakenstein Johanna Snijman 8 1699-circa 1755 of Droogevalley in the Paardeberg Mariane Lombard 9 born 1695 born 1695 10 baptized September 1695, Drakenstein 11 Notes: Her age was given as 13 years in her parents' will dated the 8th January 1709. A child named Anne was baptised at Drakenstein in September 1695. I have assumed that this was the same child called Mariane in her parents will. On 1st July 1714 she was a witness to the baptism of her niece Maria du Busson at Stellenbosch. Around 1715 she and her sister Claudine were listed among the members of the Drakenstein Congregation. On the 5th May 1748 Maria Anna Lombard married Jan George Schreuder, widower of Grisella Sweetmans. They made a joint will in 1750 but there is no clue therein as to her age. I assume that she was Mariane marrying for the first time late in life. Jean Lombard 12 born circa 1698 Notes: His age was given as 11 years in his parents' will dated the 8th January 1709.  married 10 October 1718 Drakenstein 13 Louise Jubert Eva Lombard born 1699 baptized 3 May 1699, Drakenstein 14 Notes: She is not mentioned in the 1709 will of her parents and had presumably died before that date.

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