Charles Prévot^[1]

1650 - Bef 1688  (38 years)

• Name	Charles Prévot
  Birth	1650	Dombrie,,,,,France   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef Jul 1688  [4]
  Person ID	I8228	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Henri Prévot
  Mother	Jeanne de Fief
  Family ID	F302714400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Lefèbre,   b. 1651, Marck,,,,,France
  Marriage	8 Oct 1673	Dunkirk,,,,,France   [2, 3]
  Children	1. David Prévot,   b. 10 Mar 1675, Marck,,,,,France d. 9 Feb 1685, Marck,,,,,France (Age 9 years)   2. Marie Prévot,   b. 10 Feb 1678, Marck,,,,,France d. Bef 1688 (Age 9 years)   3. Abraham Prévot,   b. 24 May 1679, Marck,,,,,France d. 1767 (Age 87 years)   4. Anna Prévot,   b. 18 Feb 1681, Marck,,,,,France d. Bef 10 Oct 1740 (Age 59 years)   5. Elisabeth Prévot,   b. 13 Oct 1683, Marck,,,,,France d. 18 Jan 1750, Tulbagh,Cape,South Africa., (Age 66 years)   6. Jacob Prévot,   b. 29 May 1688, At Sea,
  Family ID	F302712697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 May 2022

  
  

• Notes

  According to Bouchard, he came from Doumbroy (probably Dombrie), near Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, south-east of Lille towards Valenciennes. In 1673 he was working in Dunkirk as master wheelwright. It seems they left Dunkirk shortly after their marriage as their children were born in Calais. From «i»The French Refugees at the Cape «/i» "«b»*Prevot Provo Provost Pruvost Charles «/b»of Calais his wife Marie le Fevre born 1651 with their three children Abraham, Anne and Elizabeth Prevot arrived from Amsterdam in 1688 in the Schelde. On the arrival of the latter in Table Bay a son (baptised on board Charles) was born one of his sponsors being Elizabeth de Pres. Charles Prevot was deceased in July 1688 as there is an entry then of the widow of Carel Provo . In 1690 his widow remarried in 1688 to Hendrik Eekhoff of Essen received assistance for herself and four children. She married for the third time Louis de Perrone qv by whom she had two children. From the register of the Protestant church at Guisnes the following particulars of this family are drawn: On the 8th October 1673 Charles Preuost maitre charon aged 23 son of Henry Preuost and Jeanne de Viffe (de Vief?) natif de Dombroy pre de l'Ille et demte a Dunquerque was married to Marie le Fevre aged 22 daughter of the late Daid le Fevre and Elizabeth le Bleu native de Marcq et demte. Aussi Dunquerque . The children born were «b»Prévot Provo Provost Provost Abraham «/b»son of above married at Stellenbosch on 12th May 1709 to Anna van Marseveen (Marvevene) widow of Esaias Costeux. They left two daughters. «b»Prévot Provo Provost Pruvost Anne «/b»married Schalk Willem van der Merwe. They lived on their farm«i» Wittenberg«/i» at Paarl and left a very large family from which a great number of v.d. Merwe family is descended. She died about 1740. «b»Prévot Provo Provost Pruvost Elizabeth «/b»married Philippe des Pres of Courtrai q.v. and by him had a large family."

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] de Villiers, C.C., revised by Pama, C., Genealogies of Old South African Families, (Published A.A Balkema, Cape Town, 1981 ISBN 0-86961-136-4), Entry for van der Merwe (Reliability: 2). [S65] M. Boucher, French Speakers at the Cape, (Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1981.), 253. (Reliability: 3). [S1433] Transcript of the registers of the Protestant church at Guisnes, from 1668 to 1685, (familysearch.org unindexed), 8 Oct 1673 Marriage Charles Preuost and Marie Lefeure. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89CL-RKJZ (Reliability: 3). [S1160] Colin G. Botha, The French Refugees at the Cape, (Struik (1970)), Entry for Provost (Reliability: 3).