Jean Blignaut

Pierre Blignaut

If his father died at the Cape he was not a SV/PROG

Date of birth and baptism needs research!

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https://www.geni.com/photo/view?album_type=photos_of_me&id=6000000000535519408&photo_id=6000000181616317023&position=0

Judi Marais-Meyer register MRIN 284

Eie boedel MOOC8/8.5

Jan Blignaut het as ryk man gesterf, Hy het heelwat plase besit. Volgens sy boedel die volgende:

1. Op 10 Mei word die akte van Bethel, geleë aan Drakenstein uit die boedel van die erfgename van Daniel Hugo. aan hom oorgedra.

2.DIe transport van Drie FOnteine, Drakenstein word op 16 Maart 1731 uitgereik en voldaan op 24 Nov 1747

3. Op 'n uijtwijsens transport op 27 Aug 1742 word hy eienaar van Nabygelegen, distrik Drakenstein.

4. Leeukuil geleë in Swartland word

blijkens erfgrondbrief sub dato 12 November 1720 ten behoeve van des oveleedens voorsaat voorn: verleent

5.Sion word uijtwijsens erfgrondbrief sub dato 1 Augs: 1691 aan meer gem: Daniel Hugot in eijgendom gegeeven

6. Vleeschbank, distrik Drakenstein word - laatste transport op den 12 November 1744 aan den overleedene gedaan

7. een opstal gen:t de Harmonie geleegen over de Hexerivier in de Thesie

Volgens die boedel was die egpaar woonagtig te Bethel ten tye van sy dood.

Hy laat ook 5 meerjarige kinders agter.

Reference no.: MOOC8/8.5

Testator(s):

Jan Blignault

18 April 1752

Inventaris van alle soodanige goederen, roerende en onroerende, actien en crediten, als ab intestato sijn naargelaaten en met ’er dood ontruijmt door den oudheemraad Jan Blignault ten voordeele van sijn bij sijn voor overleedene huijsvrouw Anna Rossouw in huwelijk verwekte en naargelaatene vijf kinderen

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Jean(Jan) Blignaut arrived in South Africa in 1723 as Cadet on board "Huis Ten Assenburg". Jean was a schoolmaster for the children of Daniël Hugo and Anne Rossouw.After the death of Daniel he married his widow. Jean was also the owner of the farm Zion.

================================sic: Geslagsregister van Vroeë Kaapse Families"=================================

Jan(Jean) Blignaut (a1) kom in 1723 as soldaat op die skip "Huis ten Assenburg" aan die Kaap. Hy het waarskynlik ook sy ouers Pieter B en Elisabeth Desordes uit Europa laat oorkom aangesien sy moeder as getuie van sy oudste dogter geteken het. Hy was onder andere besitter van die pragtige plaas "Zion".

Verwysings:

Geslagsregister van Vroeë Kaapse families.

German Personlia in South Africa.

Cor Pama: Groot Afrikaanse Familie Naamboek

Judi Marais-Meyer register

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Was born in Amsterdam. Emigrated to South Africa in 1723.

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'The Huguenot Story' by Juliet Marais Louw

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"Jean Blignault (Blignaut) arrived in 1723, long after the bigger parties of refugees. He was in the Company's service. It is said that Daniel Hugot had known him in Europe and had sent for him to teach his children. After Daniel Hugot's death, Blignault married his widow Anna Rossouw and so acquired seven farms."

Parents: Pieter B. & Elisabeth Desordes is ook uit Europa laat oorkom; sy moeder is getuie by die doop van sy oudste dogter.
Hy was o.a. besitter van die pragtige plaas “Zion”

x 4.11.1725 Anna Rossouw, wed.v. Daniel HIugo

Juna Malherbe, "Jean Blignaut," e-mail message from e-mail address (Paarl) to SA-Gen, 17 mar 2006, Mnr Blignaut se navorsers het die volgende inskrywing in die plaaslike kerk se rekords in Monthelon gevind: "20 September 1686, doop van Jean, seun van Pierre Bleignot en Elisabeth Desbordes. Peetpa Jean de Villiers en peetma Nicole Thibault".. Hereinafter cited as "Jean Blignaut."http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g6/p6099.htm

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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Het in 1726 in die Kaap gewoon, Besit pragplaas "Zion"</p>

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Construction: gebouwd in 1718 voor de Kamer van Amsterdam op een werf in Amsterdam
Term: in gebruik bij de VOC vanaf 1718 tot 17/09/1735 (OPGELEGD, Batavia) Length: 145 voet Breadth: Depth: Loading capacity: 400 last (800 ton) Crew: 180-250 koppen Flag: Chamber of Amsterdam

Date of departure:09/01/1723 Port of departure: Texel Final destination:Batavia Date of arrival in the Cape:12/04/1723 Captain: Jacob Thoorn

http://houliston.lisaandroger.com/getperson.php?personID=I12&tree=R...:

Onderwyser deur haar eerste man gehuur. Vanaf Amsterdam of Monthelon Champagne. Arriveer in 1723 as adelbors, word later onderwyser in diens van Daniel Hugo. Hy boer op Zion in Groot Drakenstein en besit ook verskeie ander plase.

Goeiemiddag Blignaut- kenners,

Ek het 'n brief van mnr CL Blignaut van die VSA ontvang waarin hy meld dat hy, met die hulp van 'n familielid, navorsing in Monthelon in Frankryk laat doen het oor stamvader Jean BLIGNAUT.

Volgens M Boucher se French Speakers at the Cape: the European background 1983 bl.231 is daar vyf kinders vir Pierre Blignaut en Elisabeth Desbordes in Fankryk gebore voor die herroeping van die Edik van Nantes en voordat die gesin na Amsterdam uitgewyk het. Die oudste was Jean, gedoop 3.6.1677. Prof Boucher meld: "the Jean Blignaut who came to the Cape cannot have been the son christened at Chaltrait in 1677. He was evidently born in Amsterdam, where the baptisms of two of his brothers are recorded".

Mnr Blignaut se navorsers het die volgende inskrywing in die plaaslike kerk se rekords in Monthelon gevind: "20 September 1686, doop van Jean, seun van Pierre Bleignot en Elisabeth Desbordes. Peetpa Jean de Villiers 'n peetma Nicole Thibault". Hy vermoed dat die eerste seuntjie Jean jonk oorlede is en dat hierdie Jean wat in 1686 gedoop is die Blignaut-stamvader in SA is.

Vriendelike groete,

Juna Malherbe

Jean Blignaut het lank na die aankoms van die eerste Hugenote in Suid Afrika aangekom. Sy naam kom egter voor onder die Franse vlugtelinge wat behandel word in "Huguenot Famlies at the Cape of Good Hope". Nadat Jean Holland bereik het, het hy in diens getree van die Oos-Indiese Kompanjie. Toe hy in 1723 hier aangeland het, was hy adelborst op die skip Huis ten Assenburg. Daar word beweer dat Daniël Hugo vir Jean genader het as onderwyser vir sy kinders. Jean was egter nie lank skoolmeester nie, want Daniël is sowat 'n jaar na Jean se aankoms oorlede. Jean is toe kort daarna met die weduwee Hugo getroud en het besitter van verskeie plase geword, onder andere die pragtige plaas Zion. Jean het waarskynlik sy ouers ook uit Europa laat kom want sy moeder was getuie met die doop van Jean se oudste dogter. Volgens een van die bronne waaruit inligting aangaande Jean en sy vrou se eerste man, Daniël Hugo, blyk dit dat Daniël, Jan se ouma, se broer was. Daniël was 40 toe hy getroud is met Anna, terwyl sy 'n meisie van 14 was.

Arrived at the Cape in 1723 as midshipman on the "Huis ten Assenburg". In 1726 he applied for citizenship, as a result of his marriage be became the owner of a farm. He was a teacher and cashier from Drakenstein.

Binne een week is beide man en vrou oorlede.

Met sy dood 1752 besit hy 7 plase. Hy was 'n adelbors, kry vrybriewe, en was onderwyser van Daniel Hugo se kinders. Hy trou met Hugo se weduwee

MOOC 8/8 Inventarissen 1752-1757 no 5 MOOC 13/3 Boedelrekening 1737-1757 no 117

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Cape Colony marriage in perspective by Jeanne Cilliers. Thesis presented to the University of Stellenbosch in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master's of Commerce in Economics. Supervisor: Johan Fourie. University of Stellenbosch Department of Economics. March 2013.

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In the early period (from settlement until at least 1750) as a result of the large age differential between men and women upon first marriage, widowhood was almost a certainty for women in the Cape. This presented a unique opportunity for men to accumulate wealth through

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strategic marriage to wealthy widows. Guelke and Shell (1983) note that a similar situation unfolded in the colonial settlement of Virginia in North America:

In Virginia, the death rate produced such a rapid turnover of husbands and wives that widowhood became a principal means for the concentration of wealth...The man who needed capital could get it most easily by marrying a widow. And she was likely to get it back again, with whatever he had added to it, when he died (Morgan quoted in Guelke & Shell, 1983:279).

Unions of this nature are reported frequently enough at the Cape to look like conscious strategy rather than repeated coincidence. Notorious widow-marrier and one of the richest men at the Cape during the eighteenth century, Martin Melck, allegedly made his fortune by strategically marrying wealthy Cape widows. Melck came from humble beginnings as a farm labourer for one John Philip Giebler, but upon Giebler's death, Melck married his widow by the name of Anna Margeretha Hop and in doing so became owner of two of the most prestigious farms in the Stellenbosch district namely Elsenburg and Muldersvlei. Upon his first wife's death, he quickly remarried the widow of Hercules Malan, one Maria Rosina Loubser, once again increasing his estate. Guelke and Shell (1983:280) report a number of the Cape's wealthiest men to have been so-called widow-marriers, including Adam Tas, Jan Cloete, Jan Blignaut and Henning Viljoen.

At the heart of the matter, though, is the fact that the role fulfilled by widows in the Cape made them conduits for the accumulation and transmission of property and slaves from one generation to the next. While land may have changed hands regularly at the Cape, the resulting owners were regularly related by marriage. Families were not necessarily tied to specific estates but were frequently confined to specific localities. Women were therefore central to ensuring the preservation of wealth (Hall, 1994), and marriage within relatively limited geographical boundaries helped limit the destructive effects of partible inheritance system (Dooling, 2005:159).

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