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Pierre Lombard farmer (1709) 1 of Drakenstein 2 born circa 1658, Pointais in the Dauphiné 3 died 1714 4 will dated 8 January 1709 Notes: His place of birth was given in his will as Pointais in Dauphiné. Maurice Boucher, in his book French Speakers at the Cape, 1981, gives the place name as Pontaix in Dauphiné, 'a picturesque little town on the right bank of the Drôme below Die'. Pierre Lombard and his wife, Marie Couteau, were apparently members of the Amsterdam congregation of the Walloon Church in 1687 when they were part of a small group of refugees from Dauphiné who took leave of that congregation on 21 December 1687, before sailing for the Cape, possibly on the Borssenburg, a ship which left Texel for the Cape on 6 January 1688. This note of their leaving in the church register says that they were accompanied by 'their mother, Eve', but it does not say which of the couple's mother she was and no surname is mentioned. Eve, however, does not seem to have arrived at the Cape. If they did indeed travel on the Borssenburg she may have stayed behind, since there were, most unusually, no deaths recorded on that voyage to the Cape. Boucher suggests that Pierre Lombard may have been the son of Antoine Lombard, a farm worker at Aurel, south of Pontaix across the river, who remained in the district after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The above information from: French Speakers at the Cape, by M. Boucher, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 1981.) Both Pieter Lombart and his wife Maria Coutau signed their will of 1709 by making their marks. One assumes, therefore, that they were unable to write.

married Maria Couteau circa 1659-1718

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

children of Pierre Lombard and Maria Couteau Pieter Lombard 5 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 6 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 7 1699-circa 1755 of Droogevalley in the Paardeberg Mariane Lombard 8 born 1695 born 1695 9 baptized September 1695, Drakenstein 10 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 11 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 12 Louise Jubert Eva Lombard born 1699 baptized 3 May 1699, Drakenstein 13 Notes: She is not mentioned in the 1709 will of her parents and had presumably died before that date.

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