Hercules Verdeau

Hercules Verdeau
My great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather

Sex: male
Occupation:

Born:  about 1672, - La Roque D'anthezon,Provence, France (according to this source)
settled: sailed on Berg China to Cape of Good Hope, 1688
Died: 1772, Ceres, Cape Province, South Africa  (according to this source)

On 23 December 1687, in a letter to the H.eeren Zeventienen, the Rotterdam Chamber advised that the following individuals had expressed an intention to sail to the Cape on the ship China... Hercules Verdeau is listed as being on the ship (source here)


Parents: M: unknown
             F: unknown

Siblings:  unknown
 
Married: Maria Catharina Huibeaux
Date: about 1698

Children : Maria Verdeau
              Magdalena Verdeau
              Susanna Verdeau
(see details here)

From the Hugenot museum in Franschoek.