Jeanne Mouy, b2 SM

Judi Marais-Meyer register

Jeanne Mouy(Moij) arrived in South Africa with her father Pierrre and sister Marie on 20.7.1699 on board the "Donkervliet".

Thanks to Emmerentia J V Rensburg, trained and registered Genealogist registered at the National Archives of Pretoria who did this research for my Mother in law just before she died.

in Boucher

Pierre Mouy sailed on the Donkervliet in 1699. With him in the settlement were Jeanne and Marie Mouy, presumably his daughters.204 Marie, born on May 15, 1685, became the wife of Francois Retif in 1700 and their youngest child, Madeleine, baptized on December 22, 1720, lived to be almost ninety-seven years of age, dying on April 10, 1817.205 C.C. de Villiers spoke of a portrait of her still in existence at Paarl in the later nineteenth century.206 The Mouys were said to have come from Saint-Amant and it has been assumed that this is Saint-Amand on the Scheldt. There are, however, other alternatives in the region: Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, near Valenciennes, Saint-Amand, in the vicinity of Arras, and on the Belgian side of the modern border, Saint-Amand, north-east of Charleroi. The family has not yet been identified in Europe, although the surname has been encountered in Dauphine.207 There are moreover many towns and villages in France named Saint-Amand, Saint-Amant or Saint-Amans, and it is possible that the Mouys came from one of them. Their inclusion in this chapter is therefore somewhat arbitrary. * Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp275-6

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