Estienne Viret, SV/PROG

Alternate spelling surname: Wieret

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Information from 'The Huguenots of South Africa' by P. Coertzen:

Name: Viret, Estienne (1662 - 29 October 1726)

Place of origin: Pontaix, Vinsobres, Nyons (Dauphine), France

Date of arrival: 1688

Ship: Zuid Beverland

Settled at: Cape Town

Married to: 1698, Margurite Roux (1680-1726)

Children: Five sons, four daughters

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More information about him is found in the First Fifty Years project website: http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g11/p11812.htm#i11812

Etienne Viret in Boucher

Another surname to be found at Pontaix is Viret. Botha’s inclusion of a Jean Viret among the passengers on the Berg China, which sailed from Rotterdam on March 20, 1688 under Samuel Jansz. van Groll, would seem to have been in error. There was, however, an Etienne Viret on the Suijdbeveland. He was born about the year 1662 in Dauphine and was perhaps either from Pontaix or from another Calvinist centre such as Vinsobres near Nyons. *M. Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 7: Cape Settlers III: from South-Eastern France and Adjoining Territories p180