Fundamina 2008 Volume 14 Issue 1
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2024-03-28T22:43:50Z“Memories of over eighty years" : remiminisces
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“Memories of over eighty years" : remiminisces
Schulze, W.G.
I was born at the Paarl on the fifth day of September 1849 and baptised in the
Dutch Reformed Church at that place on the thirtieth day of that month.3 I
cannot, of course, assert these facts from my own knowledge but for their
correctness have to depend upon a baptismal certificate. I had several
godparents, only one of whom I ever knew; but as none of them thereafter ever
apparently concerned themselves about me I need not further advert to them.
2008-01-01T00:00:00ZMelius de Villiers : a biographical sketch
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Melius de Villiers : a biographical sketch
Schulze, W.G.
The cradle of the extended De Villiers family in South Africa was an estate near
La Rochelle, France. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685
meant that freedom of religion came under siege in France.1 Among the many
French Huguenots who felt compelled to flee from their beloved France in order
to secure their right to worship their God as they chose, were three De Villiers
brothers. They first went to Holland (the then Dutch Republic), before they
came to the Cape in 1689. The De Villiers family in South Africa descended
from these three brothers.
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