Family Tree of DAVID McKENZIE GREWAR of South Africa
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DAVID MCKENZIE GREWAR was born on 22:06:1796 and baptized on 25:06:1796 in Linlithgow, West Lothian county, and about 25 km West from Edinburgh, capital of Scotland.
David McKenzie Grewar got married on 01:10:1831 to JOHANNA CATHARINA FREDERIKA MARAIS, daughter of Christoffel Gerhardus MARAIS and Maria Magdalena (born DANNHAUSER) of the farm Wyders River near Albertinia, in the district of Swellendam. Johanna was born on 23:03:1811, baptized on 26:10:1811 and died on 10:04:1874. The couple had 12 children.
Descendants of David McKenzie Grewar and Johanna Catharina Frederika Marais (12k)
b1 Maria Magdalena Rosina Grewar * 22:07:1832 = 23:08:1832 + 21:04:1834 at Uitenhage
b2 JOHN CHARLES GREWAR * 23:10:1833 = 07:11:1833 + 15:10:1835 at Uitenhage
b3 Janet Gertruida Grewar * 02:08:1835 = 24:09:1835 x 15:02:1855 Salomon Ferreira of Gamtoos River
b4 Maria Elizabeth Grewar * 11:05:1837 = 14:06:1837 + 20:06:1841 at Uitenhage
b5 Johanna Catharina Grewar * 10:12:1838 = 14:02:1839 + 20:06:1841 at Uitenhage
b6 CHRISTOFFEL JOHN GREWAR * 28:10:1840 = 04:12:1840 at Uitenhage + 12:08:1928 x 24:01:1867 at Humansdorp to Johanna Dorothea LOURENS * 21:10:1843 at Uitenhage + 21:12:1925. They were buried on the family estate "Hope Valley" near Ficksburg (11k)
c1 Susan (Lilly) Grewar * 09:10:1868 + 08:08:1939 x Peter Truby of Ficksburg
c2 DAVID MCKENZIE GREWAR * 02:03:1870 at Ficksburg = 29:05:1870 + 11:02:1940 x Anna Elizabeth Lindeque * 06:05:1873 + 21:01:1954. (No children)
c3 PETER GEORGE LOUWRENS GREWAR * 20:01:1872 at Clocolan = 10:03:1872 at Clocolan + 20:09:1937 and buried at Clocolan x 15:07:1902 at Clocolan to Ignasina Wilhelmina VAN ROOYEN * 13:10:1872 at "Marakabi", Clocolan + 22:10:1958 and buried at Clocolan. (8k)
d1 Esther Eudora (Grewar) MICHAU * 04:04:1903 at Germiston + 24:07:1985 at Worcester x 10:12:1939 at Merweville to Gerhardus Nicolaas Michau * 12:07:1911 at Caledon + 08:03:1997 at Worcester. They were cremated and their ashes strewn in the Klip River at Henley-on-Klip. (2k)
e2 Gerald Michau * 28:09:1944 at Ceres = Ceres + 10:07:2004 in Johannesburg
d2 CHRISTO LOUWRENS GREWAR * 03:06:1905 at "Skeefkop", Clocolan + 12:12:1983 at Clocolan and buried at Clocolan x 16:01:1935 at Ficksburg to Maria VAN NIEKERK * 09:05:1910 at Ficksburg + 19:11:1959 at Clocolan and buried at Clocolan (3k) xx 18:12:1964 to Elizabeth VAN ZYL (nee Heiberg) * 02:07:1910 at Dealsville + 1986 at Ventersburg and buried at Clocolan. (They had no children)
e3 IGNATIUS (NAAS) MARTHINUS GREWAR * 15:07:1942 at Clocolan + 17:06:1990 at Saaiplaas, Virginia (in the Free State Province of South Africa) and buried on 20:06:1990 at Clocolan (2k)
b6c3d3 PETER GEORGE GREWAR * 16:03:1907 at Clocolan + 09:02:1970 in Pretoria and buried at Petrus Steyn x (date?) 1936 at Edenburg to Anna Johanna VAN ROOYEN * 26:02:1911 at Edenburg + 20:02:1993 at Hoopstad and buried at Petrus Steyn (3k)
e1 PETER GEORGE GREWAR * 21:05:1943 at (place?) + 06:02:1968 at Petrus Steyn and buried at Petrus Steyn (1k)
e3 CORNELIS JOHANNES GREWAR * 12:05:1952 at Petrus Steyn + 06:07:1989 at Lichtenburg (4k)
b6c3d4 FRANCIS MARTIN GREWAR (uncle Rex) * 12:11:1908 at Clocolan + (date?) at Clocolan and buried (date?) at Clocolan x 12:12:1953 at (place?) to Johanna Catharina (Bubbles) de Bruyn * 09:01:1908 at (place?) + (date?) at Clocolan and buried at Clocolan (No children)
b6c3d5 Dorothea Presciosa (Grewar) (Hauptfleisch) Coetzee * 09:05:1910 at Clocolan + in Pretoria. (Her ashes were strewn over the grave of her first husband, Andries Hauptfleisch, on the farm "Hoogstede" in Agter-Paarl x 14:04:1945 to Andries Charl Hauptfleisch * 29:03:1909 at Paarl + 27:03:1951 (he has drowned in the sea at Hermanus) and buried on "Hoogstede" at Agter-Paarl (2k) xx 16:07:1969 in London to Jan Christoffel Coetzee * 10:04:1912 at Graaff-Reinet + 16:09:1999 in Pretoria and buried in Pretoria East (No children)
b6c3d6 Eunicé Phoebé (Grewar) Murray * 16:06:1912 at Clocolan + 22:08:1994 at Humansdorp and buried on 27:08:1994 at Kareedouw x 25:02:1941 at Clocolan to the Rev Samuel Murray * 21:07:1913 at Loxton, died on 18 August 2005 at Humansdorp and buried at Kareedouw (5k)
b6c3d7 DAVID MCKENZIE GREWAR * 03:01:1914 at Clocolan + 09:12:1938 on the farm "Hope Valley", Ficksburg. (He broke his neck while diving in the river on his farm)
b6c3d8 CORNELIUS HELGAARD GREWAR * 12:02:1916 at Clocolan + 17:07:1977 at Somerset West x 20:06:1942 at Somerset West to Helena Aletta Mans * 23:10:1919 at Somerset West (4k)
b6c4 CHRISTOFFEL JOHN (Jack) GREWAR * 14:06:1873 at Clocolan = 27:07:1873 + 21:09:1928 at (place?) x (date?) at (place?) to Mercia Gussie * (date?) at (place?) (any children?)
d1 Major Joyce Grewar * (date?) at (place?) x (date?) at (place?) to Dannaher (?)
b6c5 CORNELIUS GREWAR * 19:12:1875 at (Clocolan?) = 20:02:1876 + 06:10:1897 at Jeppe Hospital, Johannesburg
b6c6 GEORGE FREDERIK GREWAR (Germiston) * 28:03:1878 at (Clocolan?) + 22:12:1928 at Sabie x 23:04:1902 at (place?) to Johanna Catharinna Maria Prinsloo * (date?) at (place?) + 29:08:1959 at (place?) (5k)
d1 GARFIELD LAWRENCE GREWAR (Alberton) * 22:10:1903 at (place?) + 24:02:1966 in Alberton x 27:02:1925 in Alberton to Martha Maria Jacobs * (date?) at (place?) + 19:03:1990 in Richards Bay and buried in Richards Bay (2k)
e1 DAVID MCKENZIE GREWAR (Member of the President's Council, Deputy Administrator of the Orange Free State Province, Chairman of the Orange Free State Agricultural Union, Member of the Executive Committee of the Orange Free State, and owner of the farm "Hope Valley", Ficksburg, after the death of his cousin David Grewar) * 06:08:1927 in (Alberton?) + 14:03:1990 x 24:04:1954 at Fort Beaufort to Johanna Petronella Maree * 14:07:1928 at (place?) (4k)
e2 Elsabé K * 1942 x 1965 to Ernst (2k) (deadonly info removed here)
d2 Christiana Prisiosa Grewar * 16:09:1905 at (place?) x (date?) at (place?) to Fritz Ebert * (date?) at (place?) (3k)
d3 CHRISTOFFEL JOHN GREWAR * 02:12:1911 + (date?) (Unmarried)
d4 LOURENS JOHANNES PRINSLOO GREWAR * 25:06:1913 at (place?) x (date?) at (place?) to Wilhelmina Dry * (date?) at (place?) (2k)
d5 Wilhelmina (Mina or Alma) Grewar * 04:10:1916 at (place?) x 02:07:1937 at (place?) to Harry Ibbertson * (date?) at (place?) + He fall in battle during WW2 on 17:12:1941 xx 17:12:1946 at (place?) to Jerry Ross-Munro (No children)
b6c7 Johanna Dorothea Grewar * 30:05:1830 at (place?) x (date?) at Ladybrand to (first name ?) van Huyssteen (2k)
d1 Doris van Huyssteen * (date?) at (place?)
d2 Johannes van Huyssteen * (date?) at (place?)
b6c8 JACOBUS HERCULES GREWAR (Uncle Kotie of Ermelo) * 15:07:1882 at (place?) + 30:03:1969 at Ermelo x (date?) at (place?) to Carolina Dippenaar (how many children?)
d1 Helena Lavina Grewar * 05:01:1916 at (place?) + 27:05:1984 and buried at Ficksburg x (date?) at (place?) to (first name?) Groenewald (1k) xx (date?) at (place?) to Davy Moore
e1 Cornelius Groenewald
b6c9 Maria Elizabeth Grewar * 14:10:1885 (place?) + 11:01:1959 x David (Paddy) Moore of Ficksburg
d1 Doreen Moore * (date?) at (place?) x Eaton ?
d2 David (Davy) Moore * (date?) at (place?) x (date?) at (place?) to Helena Lavina Groenewald (born Grewar)
d3 James Carson Moore
b6c10 Jeanetta Presiosa Grewar * 02:05:1887 + 19:07:1957 x Pieter Bierman (Zwartruggens)
d1 David Bierman
d2 Pieter Bierman
b6c11 THOMAS GREWAR * 1889 + 1889 (?)
b7 JOHN WILLIAM GREWAR * 01:07:1842 at Cuyler Street, Uitenhage = 14:09:1842 + 31:05:1929 x 23:06:1874 at Uitenhage to Margaret Louisa Rens * 30:01:1851 at Witteklip, Uitenhage + 14:09:1923 (11k)
b7c1 DAVID (Fixie) GREWAR (Kruisrivier, Port Elizabeth) * 21:03:1875 at Cuyler street, Uitenhage = 09:05:1875 x Susan Frances Rich (4k)
d1 Nancy Elaine Rich * 12:01:1916 x 02:04:1938 to J.A.B. van Zyl Visser * 16:04:1903 + 05:06:1965 (any children?)
d2 Ruth Valerie Rich * 27:05:1925 + unmarried
d3 Pamela Rich + (died as a child)
d4 Carmen Pamela Rich
b7c2 Catherine (Katy) Wilhelmina Grewar * 29:08:1876 at Uitenhage x Dreyer
d1 Jock Dreyer
d2 Graham Dreyer
d3 Shirley Dreyer
b7c3 Johanna Louisa (Jeannie) Grewar * 12:01:1878 at Schanskraal, Richmond
b7c4 Margaret Hendrika (Maggie) Grewar * 25:02:1879 at Wonderheuwel, Hannover + 23:02:1884
b7c5 Wilhelmina (Minnie) Grewar * 21:11:1880 at Wonderheuwel, Hannover x Patterson (2k)
d1 George Patterson
d2 Margaret Patterson
b7c6 Gertrude Janet (Gertie) Grewar * 24:03:1882 at Wonderheuwel, Hannover + 1975 x Matthews (children?)
d1 Connie Matthews x Reynolds
b7c7 IGNATIUS (Nato) GREWAR * 12:08:1883 at Wonderheuwel, Hannover x Fraces Emily Metlerkamp * 29:03:1885 at Hankey + 03:05:1967 at "Zingara".
d1 Arnold William Sydney * 07:01:1911 (+ somewhere in the 1990's) x Mary Sinclair McKay * 01:10:1910 Kruisrivier
d2 Napier Edward * 18:07:1913 + (in the 1990's) x Elsie McNicol (no children)
d3 Beryl * 08:03:1916 + 30:09:1971 x Thomas Ellis + 05:07:1985
d4 Alethea * 08:01:1918 x Jan Weitz + 1982 (2c)
d5 Sydney Gordon * 25:07:1924 Humansdorp x 06:03:1954 at Grahamstown to Sylvia Doreen Bowles (2k)
b7c8 JOHN BAIRD (Jack) GREWAR Kleinpoort, Uitenhage * 05:04:1885 + 24:08:1960 x Grace Milton Patrick * 10:02:1894 + 24:07:1949
d1 JOHN WILLIAM GREWAR * 20:02:1916 x Lorna Jenvy * 30:03:1916 (3k)
d2 PATRICK GREWAR * 20:07:1917 + 1994 (killed by three black men on his farm) x 1945 Eileen * 1931 xx Austen (4k) (deadonly info removed here)
b7c9 SYDNEY GEORGE GREWAR * 17:07:1887 Kleinpoort + 14:05:1915 (He died in an accident in Swakopmund, Namibia )
b7c10 GODFREY THOMAS GREWAR (He was farming on the family estate "Kleinpoort" near Uitenhage) * 19:11:1889 + 21:03:1933 x Jose Owen (1k)
d1 Peggy x Siebörger
b7c11 DOUGLAS GREWAR * 17:07:1894 + 17:11:1894 on Kleinpoort, Uitenhage
b8 DAVID GREWAR (He was a farmer at Wepener and Marquard) * 27:03:1844 at Cuyler Street, Uitenhage + 07:07:1914 in Johannesburg x Johanna Catharina van Rooyen of Dwarsrivier, Uitenhage * 10:10:1846 + 25:03:1904 (10k)
c1 Carolina Frederika * 18:11:1869 (unmarried) + October 1919
c2 Johanna Engelbertha (Daisy) * 11:09:1871 = 22:10:1871 (died very young)
c3 GEORGE FREDERIK GREWAR * 17:04:1873 at Uitenhage = 01:06:1873 (died very young)
c4 MARTHINUS GREWAR * 1875 at Uitenhage + 1884
c5 Johanna Catharina * 1876 + 1887
c6 DAVID GEORGE GREWAR (He was farming near Ermelo) * 05:12:1877 at Ermelo + 28:05:1966 and buried at Ermelo x 24:12:1907 to Alida Susanna Alberts * 16:05:1885 at the farm "Waterval", Johannesburg + 06:12:1959 at Ermelo and buried in grave number 426 at Ermelo (3k)
d1 DAVID (Dave) GREWAR (he was a school inspector) * 02:10:1908 at Waterval, Johannesburg + 07:07:1977 at Levanger, Norway (He was cremated and his ashes stewn in the garden of Rebecca Street Crematorium, Pretoria) x 19:12:1933 to Gertruida (Gerty) Jacoba Elizabeth Puren at Ermelo * 22:08:1914 at Bloemhof + 24:09:1992 at Pretoria (cremated at Rebecca Street Crematorium and ashes strewn in the Memorial Gardens, Pretoria) (2k)
d2 ANDRIES JOHANNES GREWAR (teacher at Krugersdorp) * 12:03:1910 at Waterval, Johannesburg + 07:12:2002 x 10:12:1938 at Springs to Lovina Elizabeth Swart * 08:11:1915 at Benoni + 01:02:1999 in Pretoria and buried at Heatherdale, D138, Acasia Cemetery. (4k)
d3 Sophia Catharina (bookkeeper) * 13:04:1916 at Johannesburg + 23:01:1993 in Pretoria and cremated in Rebecca Street Crematorium, Pretoria and ashe strewn on the Magalies Mountains x 14:12:1940 at Ermelo to Abraham Petrus van den Berg * 31:12:1909 + 25:06:1973 and cremated in the Rebecca Street Crematorium, Pretoria (1k)
c7 GERT THOMAS GREWAR (Parys) * 03:12:1880 + 1971 x ?
d1 Johlene x Van Reenen
c8 Lydia Johanna * 1882 at Middelburg + 21:01:1905
c9 Jeanetta Engelbertha (Bethlehem) * 24:08:1884 + 1969 x Hunger (2k)
d1 Theodore
d2 Dudley
c10 Baby boy * 1886 + died at birth
b9 GEORGE FREDERIK GREWAR (Kimberley) * 18:12:1845 + 10:12:1871
b10 Johanna Catharina Frederika Grewar * 26:07:1847 at Cuyler Street, Uitenhage = 24:10:1847 + 26:10:1848
b11 Carolina Frederika Grewar * 06:01:1850 + 1923 in Johannesburg
b12 THOMAS JONES PATERSON GREWAR * 11:08:1851 at Uitenhage = 26:10:1851 + 1930 (?) x 24:03:1875 to Maria Johanna Wilhelmina Janse van Vuuren * 12:08:1854 at Kruisrivier (13k)
c1 DAVID GEORGE GREWAR * 28:12:1875 at Kruisrivier + 20:12:1878 at Graaff-Reinet (unmarried)
c2 Anna (Nan) * 14:03:1877 at Kruisrivier + 08:06:1967 at Vaalwater, Nylstroom x 11:08:1903 at Uitenhage to John Rens
d1 Norman Stanley Rens * 24:06:1904 + 04:11:1904
c3 JOHN (Jack) GREWAR (He was a Pastor at Green Bushes, Port Elizabeth) * 24:10:1878 at Holfontein, Richmond (Eastern Cape) + 1962 in Port Elizabeth x 12:02:1906 at Middelburg (Eastern Cape) to Alice Frances Eckard (7k)
d1 CECIL JAMES GREWAR (Doonside N) * 01:10:1906 x in 1947 to Joan Giney in Engeland
e2 ALLAN GREWAR
d2 Aubrey (one of a twin) * 01:10:1906 + 15:10:1906
d3 Margery * 08:10:1907 + 16:07:1912
d4 Died as a baby
d5 Died as a baby
d6 Alice * ? x 1936 to Anthony Davenport Warton (Rhodesia) (3k)
d7 Nancy * 21:10:1921 x H.O. Barnard of Green Bushes, Port Elizabeth * 25:01:1920 (8k)
b12c4 THOMAS BERTIE GREWAR (Nylstroom) * 23:09:1880 at Holfontein, Richmond + 17:11:1968 at Vaalwater, Nylstroom x 27:04:1911 in Johannesburg to Annie Caroline Armstrong, d/o Robert Armstrong and Anna Carolina AURET + 12:02:1973 (Bertie went to school in Grahanstown where he matriculated in 1898. In 1901 he obtained a certificate in land surveying. In the meantime he was a surveyor at the Limpopo River from 1905 till 1915. He then went to the farm "Zandrivier", near Vaalwater in the Waterberg Mountains where he became a full time farmer. He died there on his farm). (3k)
d1 ROBERT ALAN GREWAR * 03:06:1912 at Randfontein. (Robert first went to Mrs Farrant's farm school togethers with her children, Rupert and Kay, and after that to the Rosebank High School in Johannesburg. After school he joined his father on the farm Zandrivier (Sand River) where they were farming with tabacco, maize and other crops. He died on 15:07:19et Dix on 16 December 1947 at Winterton, Natal. She was born on 28:08:1917 at Winterton as the youngest daughter of Arthur Ernest Dix, who was born in London in 1874, and Emily Jeffreys English, who was born on 30 September 1877 on the farm Byrne Valley, Richmond, Natal. (3k)
d2 Joyce Alison Grewar * 23:10:1914 x 25:09:1940 in Johannesburg to Ernest Coetzee * 17:05:1906 + (?) Administrative Officer in the MOII in Johannesburg's department of Health xx to Bernard (Bernie) Lambert
d3 ERIC GREWAR (Barclays Bank) * 24:11:1917. (He took part in World War II, captured in North Africa, and became prisoner of war in Italy and Germany. After the war he worked for Barclays Bank).
+ 1987 x Daphny Minnaar * 05:01:1926 (Her mother was related to General Andries Pretorius, famous Boer leader of South Africa)
c5 Johanna Wilhelmina Grewar * 24:11:1881 at Holfontein, Richmond, Eastern Cape x 03:07:1906 to John Frederick Dolley (4k)
d1 Elaine Dolley * 30:12:1906
d2 John Frederick Dolley * 19:08:1908
d3 Iris Dolley * 28:11:1911 x Dick Wait
d4 Norman Dolley * 21:07:1913
c6 Maria Grewar * 21:10:1883 at Schutz Rama, Griqualand West, North Cape Province x 17:08:1917 in Johannesburg to Joe Gubb (7k)
d1 Marian Edna (Meg) Gubb * 27:01:1909
d2 Nancy Grewar Gubb * 11:12:1910
d3 Joseph Gauntlet Gubb * 05:05:1912 (South African Air Force, Voortrekkerhoogte, Pretoria) x (?) (2 daughters)
d4 Jean Gubb * 06:12:1914
d5 Tommy Grewar Gubb * ?
c7 GEORGE FREDERICK GREWAR * 14:05:1886 at Sanddrift, Griqualand West + 03:09:1888 in Johannesburg
c8 HENRY LESLIE GREWAR * 29:10:1887 at Gemsbokfontein, Johannesburg + (he was murdered) on 20:08:1927 at Tu Rewa, Colesberg x 1912 to Sophie Eckard (4k)
d1 Sophie
d2 Alice
d3 Mary
d4 DOUGLAS GREWAR
c9 STEPHANUS GREWAR * 1887 + 1904
c10 LESLIE JANSE VAN VUUREN GREWAR * 10:07:1889 at Kruisrivier + 31:08:1906 at Randfontein
c11 NORMAN NEVILLE GREWAR * 18:07:1891 at Kruisrivier + 01:10:1958 in Bulawayo, South Rhodesia x 23:06:1919 to Sarah J. Dorothea Schnetler * 06:08:1891 + 08:11:1971 in Port Elizabeth (5k)
d1 Phyllis Doreen Grewar * 03:03:1920 in Port Elizabeth x in Port Elizabeth to Arthur Morris (4k)
d2 WALLACE ALBERT GREWAR * 31:01:1922 in Port Elizabeth x Dolly du Toit
d3 NORMAN MCKENZIE GREWAR * 1924 in Port Elizabeth x Julia Bubb (or Gubb?) (2k)
d4 GORDON GRAHAM GREWAR (Phalaborwa) * 1926 x Heila van Greunen
d5 ERIC DAVID GREWAR (Salisbury) * 1928 x Faitk (?) (1k)
c12 DONALD MACDONALD GREWAR * 15:08:1894 at Kruisrivier, Uitenhage + 30:01:1973 in Germiston x 13:05:1916 in Port Elizabeth to Anna Schnetler * 16:04:1893 + 10:10:1966 in Germiston (6k) xx 1974 in Bulawayo to Rotsie (?)
d1 Madge Grewar * 15:10:1916 + 24:11:1984 x Charles Frost in Uitenhage * (?) + 22:07:1982 (no children)
d2 THOMAS JONES PATERSON (Tommy) GREWAR * 22:04:1919 (Phalaborwa copper mine) + 06:09:1982 at Phalaborwa x Helen Christina Fraser * in Springs (4k) xx Benn (they live in Fairlands)
b12c12d3 Marjorie Grewar * 1921 + 1970 x Meyer de Villiers (2k)
d4 Dulcie Grewar * (?) x Alan Lundberg (6k)
d5 Joan Grewar x Neville Todd (2k)
b12c12d6 SYDNEY MAURICE GREWAR (Phalaborwa) * 21:06:1929 at Uitenhage + 14 January 2004 at Munster, South Coast, Natal x 26:05:1951 at Boksburg to Joyce Fay Tutt (parents were Gladys Otelia Paech and John Bertram Tutt, both of Uitenhage) * 21:04:1932 at Uitenhage (3k)
b12c13 Grace Grewar * 1895 + 1987 x Owen Leslie (?) in Uitenhage (?) (4k)
d1 Keith Leslie * 1920 (?) x Dolly (?) (South African Air Force pilot in World War II)
d2 Patrick Leslie * 1920 (?) (Twin brother of Keith) x Maureen (?)
d3 Peggy (Margaret?) Leslie * (?) x (?) Naudé
d4 Derick Leslie (architect in Durban) * (?)
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Please remember, the more you postpone, the more you will loose valuable information, because every time when somebody dies, he/she takes information with him/her to the grave. After death, there is no way to discover the secrets of the past.
I am also working on the family tree of the MARAIS family of South Africa. Our Grewar progenitor was married to Johanna Catharina Frederika MARAIS. Her Marais progenitor was Charles Marais, who came from the farm - Le Plessis Marly - a protestant estate near the town of Longvilliers, about 45 km south west of Paris, France. He migrated as part of the French Hugenots in 1688 to South Africa.
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