Pierre Lombard

farmer of Drakenstein

Notes:

His place of birth was given in his will as Pointais in Dauphiné.

Maurice Boucher, in his book French Speakers at the Cape, 1981,

gives the place name as Pontaix in Dauphiné, 'a picturesque little

town on the right bank of the Drôme below Die'.

Pierre Lombard and his wife, Marie Couteau, were apparently

members of the Amsterdam congregation of the Walloon Church

in 1687 when they were part of a small group of refugees from

Dauphiné who took leave of that congregation on 21 December

1687, before sailing for the Cape, possibly on the Borssenburg, a

ship which left Texel for the Cape on 6 January 1688.

This note of their leaving in the church register says that they

were accompanied by 'their mother, Eve', but it does not say which

of the couple's mother she was and no surname is mentioned. Eve,

however, does not seem to have arrived at the Cape. If they did

indeed travel on the Borssenburg she may have stayed behind,

since there were, most unusually, no deaths recorded on that

voyage to the Cape.

Boucher suggests that Pierre Lombard may have been the son of

Antoine Lombard, a farm worker at Aurel, south of Pontaix across

the river, who remained in the district after the revocation of the

Edict of Nantes in 1685.

(The above information from: French Speakers at the Cape,