William Frederick Hertzog Purcell

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• Departure: Southampton, Hampshire
• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Residence: California, USA
• Arrival: 15 Sep 1936, New York, USA
• Occupation: 1937; Architect
• Departure: Aug 1937, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Arrival: 20 Sep 1937, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 30 Sep 1937, New York, USA
• NaturalizationPetition: 15 Feb 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Naturalization: 9 Feb 1951, California, USA
• Residence: 1985, Cambridge, MA

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Family/Spouse: Elizabeth "Betty" Runkle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne Cambier Purcell was born on 20 Aug 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; died on 21 May 1987 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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• Education: 1894, Frederich Wilhelm University, Berlin; 1894 Doctoral thesis in zoology - obtained his doctorate on Arachnida 1895 completed degree of D.Phil
• Residence: 1885-1896, Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa; Lived in Tulana, charming Victorian mansion in Upper Wynberg
• Occupation: 1896-1905, South Africa; Zoologist and assistant director of the SA Museum, specialized on arachnids, retired 1905 and spent the rest of his life collecting arachnids and other insects, and making a collection of flora of the area around his farm
• Occupation: 1913-1919; Led Restoration of the Koopmans-de Wet house
• Occupation: 1902-1919, Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa; Managed Bergvliet estate belonging to his mother Mrs S.W. Purcell & her sister Mrs A M Jeffcoat until his death, then Rev W Jeffcoat assumed stewartship

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Died:
died at his home Bergvliet, in Constantia

William married Anna Cambier Faure on 24 Mar 1897 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Anna (daughter of Jan Gysbertus Reynier Cambier Faure and Johanna Catharina Paulina Deneys) was born on 3 Oct 1870 in Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 28 Aug 1943 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried on 30 Aug 1943 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Jul 1943, Dauphine, Main Rd, Wynberg

Walter married Sophia Wilhelmina Jonasina Hertzog. Sophia was born on 21 Jun 1839 in South Africa; died on 5 Dec 1931. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jan Gysbert Reynier Cambier Faure

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Clerk to Res Magistrate Beaufort West. Served in Magistrates Office,Hopetown (1866). Calvinia. R.M. ladysmith 1876. Interpretor for H.E. Sir Garnet Wolsley in Transvaal in 1874. R.M.Aberdeen, Victoria West, Calvinia, Graaff-Reinet and Cape Town 1894. Kept a mistress.

Jan married Johanna Catharina Paulina Deneys on 15 Sep 1869 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Johanna (daughter of Dirk Gysbert Deneys and Anna Catharina Eksteen) was born on 10 May 1851 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 26 Mar 1947 in Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Age: 95

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Dr. Philip Eduard Faure (February 1, 1811, Stellenbosch - December 7, 1882) was the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church Wynberg, where he worked for 48 years, four times moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church's Cape Synod and six times actuator or assessor of the same body. Wynberg was his only congregation.

Faure left in 1828 after Utrecht for theological study. On December 7, 1834, he was confirmed as Wynberg's first teacher and served the congregation until his death on December 7, 1882. It was his eldest brother, Dr. Abraham Faure, who founded the congregation five years earlier on September 20, 1829, when he led the first religious practice on the farm De Onder Schuur, later the state president's home Westbrooke (currently Genadendal).

The Church gives him and dr. William Robertson commissioned in 1848 to visit the Voortrekkers in the Transgariep and to strengthen them spiritually. The two church leaders lie about 3,000 miles (4,800 km). On November 25, 1848, they founded the congregation of Smithfield as the third congregation in the later Free State, and the congregation in Bloemfontein continued to emerge the same year. The successful journey has done much to improve the tense relationship between the Voortrekkers and the Mother Church in the Cape Colony. The Free State town of Fauresmith, where the NG congregation Fauresmith was also founded in 1848, was named after Faure and Governor Sir Harry Smith when it was founded in 1850.

From 1850 on, Faure appeared as editor of the annual Church Almanac. He also founded the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch in 1859.

At Wynberg he strives for the spiritual processing and education of the colored population. This leads to the establishment of a separate missionary congregation, which merged with the Wynberg congregation in 2008.

Faure has held numerous leadership positions in the church thanks to his ingenuity, versatility and business acumen. His sermons, speeches and writings have also been published. He was the first moderator of the Cape Synod in 1847, when he was only 36 years old. In 1857, 1863 and 1873 he held this post again.



Personal life and origin
Faure was the eleventh and last child of Jacobus Christiaan Faure and Aletta Hendrina (born Blanckenberg). Four of their children died young. Their second child and first son were dr. Abraham Faure, who was a teacher of the Dutch Reformed Church Cape Town for 45 years. The latter linked his youngest brother on January 12, 1835 at Wynberg to Anna Wilhelmina Cambier (whose mother was also a Blanckenberg). Eight children were born from marriage: Wilhelmina Hendrina (born 1835), Jacobus Christiaan (1837), Aletta Hendrina (1839), Jan Gijsbertus Reijnier Cambier (1841), Philibert Carel Gerard (1844), Maria Cornelia (1845), Abraham Iodocus Heringa (1847) and Philip Carel Dirk (1849).

Abraham and Philip Eduard's grandfather, Abraham, was the son of the ancestor of the family in South Africa. He was born on 17 August 1717 and died on 22 July 1792 in Stellenbosch. From his marriage to Anna Maria Wium (September 30, 1731 to 1811, Philip Eduard's birth year), seven children were born, of which Abraham and Philip Eduard's father, Jacobus Christiaan, was sixth.

Faures' ancestor, Antoine Alexandre, was born in Orange on 2 February 1685 and died in 1736 in Stellenbosch. He fled to Prussia in 1703 because of his persecution because his grandfather Phillipe accepted the Reformed faith. From Prussia he settled in the Cape. His wife and the father-in-law of the Faures were Rachel de Villiers (1694 to 1773). They had seven children, of which Abraham sr. was the oldest.

Philip married Anna Wilhelmina Maria Cambier on 12 Jan 1835 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Anna (daughter of Jean (Jan) Cambier and Wilhelmina Hendrina Blankenberg) was born on 17 Apr 1815 in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 30 Aug 1875 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 17 Apr 1815, Netherlands

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• Baptism: 1 Aug 1813, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 1849, South Africa

Dirk married Anna Catharina Eksteen. Anna (daughter of Dirk Gysbertus Eksteen and Anna Catharina Cloete) was born on 5 Nov 1818 in Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 4 Feb 1891 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 13 Dec 1818, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Birth: 27 Sep 1820, Good Hope, Eastern Cape, South Africa