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Pieter La Grange 1 born circa 1664, Cabriere in Provence 2 died between 1725 and 1736 3 Notes: According to the opgaaf return for 1719 they lived in Cape Town, owning four slaves, had no animals or crops, and at that date they still had two sons and one daughter living with them. In 1721 there was just one slave, but otherwise the family was the same. In the muster roll of 1725 he and Margaretha Kool are still listed, living in the Cape District. (VC 49, page 543) H UGENOTE-VER EN IGI NG VAN SU I D-AFRI KA HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA BULLETIN 19 1981 pages 12-15 FRANKFURT AM MAIN AND THE CAPE REFUGEES M. Boucher GOIRAND. Pierre Goirand and Francoke Rousse of Cabrieres-d’ Aigues travelled through Switzerland and reached Frankfurt in October 1687. GRANGE. Pierre Grange of Cabrieres was at Frankfurt with Goirand and his wife. He was evidently travelling with his cousin, Louis Courbon. COURBON. Louis Courbon of Cabrikresd’Aigues was a mason and so destitute at Frankfurt that he had no shoes. FERRAND. Two men named Jean H UGENOTE-VER EN IGI NG VAN SU I D-AFRI KA HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA BULLETIN 22 1984 - 1985 page 47 THE LA GRANGE FAMILY The La Grange family was one of the earliest families in France to be converted to Protestantism. With the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 Pierre la Grange left his home town Cabrieres in Provence and fled as a Huguenot refugee from France. Pierre was from a family that practised masonry as a trade in Cabrieres.’’ He was not schooled in the art of writing and could only sign with a mark.3’ Evidently Pierre and his cousin Louis Courbon - a mason ‘I - like many of their Calvinist countrymen from the south of France, followed the route over Switzerland and northwards up the Rhine Valley to Frankfurt am Main, situated near the confluence of the Rhine and Main Rivers (in the present West Germany). Here he shared company with his friends, Pierre Goirand and his wife Francoise Rousse (who arrived at Frankfurt in October 1687 from Cabrieres). Their dire straits at Frankfurt are reflected in the fact that his cousin had no shoes.’, From there Pierre and his cousin travelled together to the Netherlands. On March 20, 1688 they embarked at Rotterdam on the vessel “Berg China” that was bound for the Cape. After a hazardous voyage they reached the Cape later that year.’’ Apart from his own resources and livestock possibly presented to him by the Company, Pierre also received 30 or 50 guldens at his departure from the Netherlands, as well as 100 guldens in 1690.’) On December 1, 1702 he became the owner of an erf in Table Valley (Block LL, no. 12 - at the corner of the present-day Wale and Long Streets). His neighbours were the Free Blacks Jacob from the Coast of Coromandel, facing Wale Street, and Jacob Cornelisz from Malabar, facing Long Street (today the Homes Trust Building occupies this spot). He evidently erected a house on this site, because within two years, on 16 November 1704, he married Margaretha Kool of Amsterdam, born approximately 1690, daughter of Cornelis Kool who li\sd a short distance away (Block NN, no. - 9: Their onl! child. Jan (Bl), married Johmnj. Contsrman. widow of Andries Gous. This soupls had onl- two sons, namely (Cl) Johanna Petrus. - 27.1.1737, x 26.3.1758 Annd Fourie and (C2) Marthinus - 3 1 3.1-3. burgher Swellendam, x 22.3.1761 \Idria Fourie. sister of the above mentioned .Anna. Sources: 1. BOUCHER: French Speakers at the Cuye 2 . Deeds Office, C. T.: OCF 444 -3. FRANKEN 1. Huguenot Society Bulletin no. I9 J P Louw 47 -------------- BULLETIN 35 1998 page 33 PRE-VOYAGE RECORDS OF THE HUGUENOT REFUGEES ON THE BERG CHINA Viginia Belz Chomat Edited and translated by Randolph Vigne “On 31 October 1687 50 Protestant refugees from the Luberon arrived in Frankfurtam-Main. The following six people were part of a group of nine from Cabri2re.Y d’Aigues. They were in Geneva and Lausanne in August and September before reaching Frankjurt. Pierre Goirand (Gouiran), 30, son of Jacques, and his wife Franqoise Roux, 28. They abjured at Cabribres d’Aigues on 26 October 1685. They did not arrive at the Cape. Louis Courbon, 20. On 22 October 1685 Louis abjured at Cabribres d’Aigues with his parents Andr6 Courbon and Jeanne Roux and his brothers and sisters AndrC, Daniel, Pierre, Catherine and Isabeau. Pierre Grange, 23, cousin of Louis Courbon. On 22 October, Franqois Grange, 50, abjured at Cabribres with his wife Margarite, 50, and their children Pierre, 24, and Daniel, 12. Margarite was the sister of AndrC Courbon and hence Louis’s aunt. Pierre Jourdan, 24. The consistory of the Amsterdam Walloon church noted that he had left for the Cape on 20 March 1688. It was noted that one Pierre Jourdan, 65, abjured at Cabribres with his wife Suzanne Pascal, 48, and their children Pierre, 24, and Antoine, 16. At the marriage of Antoine in 1695, Suzanne Pascal, widow, made Antoine her heir ‘with this condition that in the event that her other son Pierre, who has been in the King’s service for some years, is still alive and returns home, he will inherit half.’ This probably refers to the Pierre Jourdan cited below. The ,following I7 people were originally

married 16 November 1704 at Stellenbosch 4 Margarita Cornelisz Kool circa 1690-1771

Margareta b.1707 Pieter b.1709 Jan b.1712 children

children of Pieter La Grange and Margarita Cornelisz Kool Margareta La Grange 5 born 1707 born 1707 6 baptized 20 February 1707, Cape Town 7  married  9 Carel Christiaan Becker 8 Pieter La Grange born 1709 born 1709 10 baptized 10 February 1709, Cape Town 11 Notes: He was presumably still living in 1721 when his father's opgaaf return lists two sons and one daughter. Jan La Grange born 1712 baptized 23 October 1712, Cape Town  married between 1735 and 1736 (assumed) Johanna Conterman 12

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