Paul Godefroy

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"Paul Godefroy, twenty-two years of age in December 1687 was another of the Voorschooten bachelors. Despite a suggestion that he might have had La Rochelle connections, there is little doubt that he was from the Orleanais. There were Godefroys from Lorges and Marchenoir in the United Provinces in 1687, but it is likely that Paul Godefroy worshipped at the temple of Bazoches-en-Dunois which served a scattered rural population in the fertile Beauce, north of Orleans. The pastor there, Jeremie Perrot, went over to Rome in 1682, but the Calvinists of the region showed themselves recalcitrant in the face of efforts to convert them by force after the revocation. At Leyden in October 1687 Pierre and Paul Godefroy were helped with food and lodging by the Walloon church authorities. The name of their place of origin, incorrectly spelled in the records, is almost certainly Bazoches. Five years later, on November 27, 1692, Pierre Godefroy, son of the late Jacques Godefroy and Elisabeth Sevain of Bazoches-en Dunois, married Susanne Renaud of the same town at the London church of La Patente de Soho. This could well be the brother of the Cape settler and would not be the only instance of family links between London refugees and those in the distant Dutch settlement. The Godefroys are well represented in the Bazoches registers and we may note the marriage on June 23, 1673 of a Pierre Godefroy to Judith Couvret, member of another local family with Cape connections."

• M. Boucher (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 5: Cape settlers I: from the Loire to the Channel p108-9