1685 - 1736 (51 years)
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Name |
Antoine Alexandre Faure |
Birth |
2 Feb 1685 |
Orange, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
25 Jul 1736 |
Stellenberg, Western Cape, South Africa |
Death |
1763 |
Notes |
- He is the progenitor of the FAURE’s of South Africa and elsewhere (as some members emigrated from South Africa).
He was born in 1685, the year of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in the town of Orange, Principality of Orange, France. He fled Orange with his parents in 1686, returned with them later, only to flee again to the Netherlands, from where he emigrated to South Africa in 1714. He was a Teacher and married the daughter of another French Protestant refugee to South Africa, Rachel DE VILLIERS (1694-1773)
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Person ID |
I66 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
Last Modified |
3 Feb 2018 |
Father |
Pierre Faure, b. Jan 1636, Orange, France d. 1697, Orbe, Switzerland (Age 60 years) |
Mother |
Justina Pointy, b. 1 Aug 1653, Courthézon, Orange, France d. Overleden |
Marriage |
Jan 1683 |
Courthézon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
Family ID |
F197 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Rachel de Villiers, b. 8 Jul 1694, Franschhoek, South Africa d. 2 Sep 1773, Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 79 years) |
Marriage |
30 Aug 1716 |
Children |
| 1. Abraham Faure, b. 17 Aug 1717, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa d. 22 Jul 1792, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 74 years) |
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Family ID |
F15 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
9 Jul 2017 |
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