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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)

 

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