Louis Almorò Pisani reaches the Cape
1781 · local
[SRC-078] A Venetian of about fourteen, in the service of the Dutch East India Company - said to be the first Italian immigrant to the Cape. Five years later he stood godfather to an Oosthuizen child and gave the family a name it still uses.
Who is on record here
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Sources
- Louis Almora (Alviso Louis) Pisani - Geneanet tree of Marietjie Pienaar gw.geneanet.org/marietjie?p=louis+almora+alviso+louis&n=pisani
Told in
- setting Almero