| In our patriarchal
society, our family trees always follow the male line and often we don't
know a lot about the origins of our ancestresses. Let's have a look at
some of the women who married DU PLOOY men:
Our
DU PLOOY
heritage starts with
Ary
LECREVENT and Marie De LANOY, a Huguenot couple whose
great-granddaughter married Cornelis DU PLOOY.
First
generation
Ary (or
Hary) LECREVENT was
one of the French Huguenots who came to the Cape to start a new life,
little knowing that his new life would end in murder.
He married Marie,
who had arrived at the Cape in 1688 with her parents Nicolas and
Marguerite DE LANOY, her three brothers Nicolas, Matthieu and
Francois and her sister Suzanne. The family came from Guines by way of
Calais.
In
1690 he settled on a property in the French Hoek district of Groot
Drakenstein, built a gabled house and planted fruit orchards. He called
his farm Lecrevent, but it soon became known as Lekkerwyn
(Dutch for delicious wine).
Ary and Marie's
neighbour, on the farm Delta, was a certain SILBERBACH, a
German immigrant of dubious background. SILBERBACH had had a
rather chequered career but seemed to settle down to family life in
Fransch Hoek. His wife was a widow, Ansela, who had four
children from her previous marriage to Lorenz CAMPHER.
She was a former slave, known as Ansela of the Cape and owned by
Campher until he freed and married her. Marrying SILBERBACH as a
second husband probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
Ansela of
the Cape is the ancestress of
the CAMPHER family of South Africa, and our family is also
descended from her, through her grandson Frans Hendrik Campher, as you
will see below.
In the
course of a violent disagreement, SILBERBACH beat Ary to
death with a piece of wood and fled to escape punishment. He was
declared an outlaw and banished in absentia. No trace of him was
ever found. And serve him jolly well right.
Return to Anna
Sophia CAMPHER
Second
generation
Ary
LECREVENT and Marie LANOY's
eldest son,
Nicolas
LECREVENT
(baptised
18 June 1696) was a burger at Drakenstein and married
Johanna
GERRITS,
the widow of Hendrik WEYERS.
Third
generation
Nicolas and
Johanna had two children, a son, Adriaan (1739), and a
daughter, baptised on 17 Nov 1743: Jeanne
Marguerite LECREVENT, or as she was known in the Dutch form of
her name,
Johanna Margaretha LEKKERWYN.
She married
Frans Hendrik CAMPHER.
Fourth
generation
Their
daughter,
Anna Sophia CAMPHER, married
Cornelis DU PLOOY, a son of
Simon Ploijers of Krommenie.
Fifth
generation
Click
HERE to continue with the 5th Generation
The
French Refugees at the Cape : Colin G. Botha
Cape Dutch Houses and Farms : C. de Bosdari
Geslachtregisters der Oude Kaapsche Familien : De
Villiers and Pama
www.geocities.com/sa_stamouers
www.familysearch.org
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