Settles at Drakenstein on the immigrant terms
1691 · family · Drakenstein
[SRC-097] SAG has him established at DRAKENSTEIN in 1691 as a free immigrant on the same conditions offered to the French Huguenots: SIXTY MORGEN RENT-FREE, passage paid, on condition that all produce - wheat, vegetables, wine - was sold to the Company, and that he stayed at least five years. So the family's own '1691' and the muster's '1690' are not in conflict at all: burgher in August 1690, on the ground in 1691. The Huguenot terms are not yet verified for him personally [TO VERIFY].
Who is on record here
Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.
Sources
- Suid-Afrikaanse Geslagregisters (SAG), Vol 7 (O-Ph), pp. 136-182 - OOSTHUYZEN, with the family biography and the 1946 coat of arms SAG Vol 7, pp. 136-182
Told in
- subject The muster roll