Richard Ball - notes

"Botha, C.G. - The French Refugees at the Cape page 81 David Pruvost, born at Marcq, March, 1675, died 1685

Boucher, M -The Cape Huguenots from the Calaisis, in Familia p. 15 The son David, born at Marck on March 10, 1675 died there ... on February 9, 1685. (I assume that this fact came from the Guines registers)"

SAG Volume 8 pi-Q pp 449 lists him as b1

Geslagsregisters van ou Kaapse Families list him as b1

Prevost in Boucher

Charles Prevost was born about the year 1650 to Henri Prevost and Jeanne de Fief. He came from a village described in the Guines registers as Dombroy, probably Dombrie, near Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, south-east of Lille towards Valenciennes. In 1673 he was working in Dunkirk as a master wheelwright and on October 8 of that year married Marie le Fevre, a year his junior and the daughter of David le Fevre and Elisabeth le Bleu of Marck. As all their children from France were born near Calais, it seems likely that their father left Dunkirk soon after his marriage.

The Prevosts were accompanied on the voyage to the Cape by a son Abraham, who celebrated his ninth birthday at sea, and by two younger daughters, Anne and Elisabeth. A second son Jacob was born on shipboard on May 29, 1688. Abraham was born at Marck on May 24, 1679, Anne in the same village on February 18, 1681 and Elisabeth. in the hamlet of Les Attaques, south of Marck, on October 31, 1683. Two other children died before the departure for the Cape: David, born at Marck on March 10, 1675, and Marie, born at lower Marck on February 10, 1678 and baptized in Calais a week later. Marie’s death is not recorded in the Guines registers, but David died at Marck on February 9, 1685, shortly before his tenth birthday.

Although Charles Prevost came from the Lille region, it would seem that the family was originally from the Calaisis, perhaps from Hames- Boucres, north-west of Guines. There were certainly branches there and in Calais itself. ..

• Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp253-4

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GEDCOM Note

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Biography

::Name: David Pruvost, ::Son of Charles Prévost and Marie leFévre<ref name="text-1">"The French refugees at the Cape": Graham Botha 1921 eddition: Provided by Jan Van Jaarsveld.Canberra: Seen andentered by Ronel Olivier May 07, 2015."The Frenchrefugees at the Cape": Graham Botha 1921 eddition: Provided by Jan Van Jaarsveld. Canberra: Seen and entered by Ronel Olivier May 07, 2015.</ref>

Birth ===::Date: March 1675<ref name="text-1"/><ref name="text-85">added by Dina VermaakMay 5, 2013</ref>::Place: Marcq, France<ref name="text-1"/> and Marcq-en-Baroul, France<ref name="text-85"/>

Death

::Date: 1685<ref name="text-1"/>/ <ref name="text-85"/> ::Country: France <ref name="text-1"/>

Sources ==* WikiTree profile Prévot-26 through the import of Vermaak Family Site - 05 May 2013 by Dina Vermaak GED on May 5, 2013. Record : ID Number: MH:I4089. User : ID: F627216E-F52E-410D-BD1C-F09EA46AB16C. UPD : 28 JUL 2010 16:11:09 GMT+2.

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