BLOOD OF THE HUGUENOT – Part 3: The People of the Book
One faith. One name. One man.This is the Huguenot path—from the fires of France to the light of the Cape….
Series
BACK IN TIME: Cecilia Johanna Steyn (1872–1918)
Antoinette’s paternal great-grandmother; Susan’s maternal great-great-grandmother In the late nineteenth century, the interior of southern Africa was a region of…
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 6: When Love Was Not Enough
At a time when marriage in the church was the norm, Grietje Alberts Kuiper and Christiaan Geerst Swaak built a…
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 5: A Family Without a Marriage Record
While tracing the lives of our ancestors, I came across a couple who, by the standards of their time, seemed…
BLOOD OF THE HUGUENOT – Part 2: Under One Roof
One faith. One name. One man.This is the Huguenot path—from the fires of France to the light of the Cape….
BLOOD OF THE HUGUENOT – Part 1: The Beginning
One faith. One name. One man.This is the Huguenot path—from the fires of France to the light of the Cape….
BECOMING KUIPER – Part 4: The Second Asylum
Discovering documents of my maternal ancestors, learning they’d been in the penal colonies of the nineteenth century, and discovering an…