BLOOD OF THE HUGUENOT – Part 4: Clouds of Fear
One faith. One name. One man.This is the Huguenot path—from the fires of France to the light of the Cape….
Ancestors
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….
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…
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….
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…
THE DORSLAND TREK – Part 5: Into the Wild
The camp was quiet, the wagons huddled close together in a rough circle. Night had fallen, and the fire flickered…
THE DORSLAND TREK – Part 4: Trails of Sorrow
The fires in Ghanzi were dying out. For a few short weeks, the limestone wells had given us rest. Our…