Rachel de Villiers

Rachel married Antoine Alexandre Faure on 30 Aug 1716. Antoine (son of Pierre Faure and Justina Pointy) was born on 2 Feb 1685 in Orange, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 25 Jul 1736 in Stellenberg, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Abraham married Anna Maria Wium on 29 Aug 1756 in Stellenberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Anna (daughter of Pieter Wium and Anna de Hasse) was born on 30 Sep 1731 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 14 Aug 1811 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacobus married Aletta Hendrina Blankenberg on 30 Aug 1793 in South Africa. Aletta (daughter of Johannes Gysbert Blankenberg and Maria Cornelia van Niekerk) was born on 27 Nov 1772 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; died on 8 Nov 1839 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]