On 3 May 1720, Susanne
employed Jacob NAUDE as tutor to her children. It was a live-in
position and he took up residence with the family at Versailles.
Two years later, in 1722, they were married.
It was an
advantageous marriage for Jacob NAUDE, who was eleven years his
affluent wife's junior. He became master of Versailles,
and upon the death of the childless bachelor Estienne CRONJE in
1724, he had charge of a substantial estate including Champagne and
Olyvenhout, inherited by his Cronier stepchildren. He sold the
property Olyvenhout to Matthys STRYDOM in 1728.
Susanne died in
February 1724, two years after her third marriage, leaving Jacob
NAUDE at age 28 to bring up their only child, Jacob NAUDE junior,
(baptised 1 Aug 1723), as well as the six children from her previous
marriages, all under the age of thirteen.
Jacob NAUDE
junior was the first NAUDE to be born in South Africa.
Jacob NAUDE
arranged
for Susanne's funeral service to be held entirely in French,
according to her wish. He paid three rixdollars for the service as
French was, at that time, no longer used in Church services at the Cape.
From 1739 to 1745 Jacob
NAUDE was koster and voorleser (sexton and lay
preacher) at the Drakenstein congregation. In 1745 he purchased the farm
Klipvlei in the Wagenmakersvallei, Wellington, from Pieter
BOOIJENS. In 1766 Klipvlei was sold to Johann Franz
OPHAUSEN.
Jacob NAUDE's
nephew, Philippe Jacob NAUDE, from Berlin, arrived at the Cape in
1754 on the ship Slooten, as a soldier in the Company's
service. He remained at the Cape on military duty.
From 24 January to
18 April 1765, his services were on loan from the Company to Jacob
NAUDE junior, for whom he worked as a farm labourer. He became a burger
in 1766.
In 1774 he married
Johanna Elisabeth DU PLESSIS, with whom he had eight children. He
died in 1812. Despite his large family, it seems that his branch of the
family did not flourish and none of his sons had surviving children.
All the NAUDEs
of our line are the descendants of Jacob NAUDE and Susanne
TAILLEFERT.
(The Cape
Archives: MOOC 13/1/2 no. 33; MOOC 7/1/3 no. 84; MOOC 8/4 no.91)