Susanna (Cordier) Fourie
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Susanne (Cordier) Fourie (1681 - 1714)

Susanne (Susanna) Fourie formerly Cordier aka Cordie
Born in Francemap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married [date unknown] in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 33 in de Caep de Goede Hoopmap
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Susanna (Cordier) Fourie is a Cape of Good Hope - Kaap de Goede Hoop (1652-1806) Stamouer-Progenitor
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Susanna was a Huguenot.
She found refuge in the Cape Colony

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Biography

Susanna (Cordier) Fourie has French origins.
Place of origin: The Thimerais region (Normandie)? Date of arrival: 1698 Ship: Driebergen Settled at: Kromrivier in the Wagenmakersvallei Married to Suzanne Fouché Two sons, three daughters (Source: The Huguenots of South Africa 1688-1988 by Pieter Coertzen p.164).[1]
LE RICHE: Louis, the progenitor, came from the Thimerais region in France (perhaps in Ill-de-France, next to Normandy) on the ship ‘Driebergen’ in 1698 as Louwys de Ryck. He settled in Kromrivier in Wagenmakersvallei, and married Suzanne Fouché aka Susanna Fouche (b1689) in 1708. They had 2 sons & 3 daughters, of whom 1 daughter died young. [Sharon Doubell] 2013, Compiled from:
•Pieter Coertzen, Die Hugenote van Suid Afrika 1688-1988 Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Limited, 1988)
•Krige, Ode. Die Hugenote, 1688-1988 Ter Viering van 'n Onblusbare Gees: Nasionale Feeskomitee Hugenote 300. [See SA French Huguenots Project][1]
Eienaar van Groenfontein 1717 tot 1732. Sy weduwee, Suzanne Fouche dra die plaas oor aan hul jongste seun, Joseph le Riche wat toe ook L'Arc d' Orleans in Klein Drakenstein besit. Joseph se weduwee trou met Adriaan Louw from http://houliston.lisaandroger.com/getperson.php?personID=I490&tree=Rossouw – no sources. [1]

Name

Susanna Cordier [2][3][4][5][6][7] / Susanne Cordier [8][9][10] / Suzanne Cordier Fourie [11][12] / Susanne Fourie [13]

Birth

Date: Susanne (Suzanna [12]) Cordier was born in 1674 [9] / 1675 [7] / 1678 [3][4][10][11] / 1679 [5][12][13] / March 7th, 1681. [8]
Place: Orleanais, France [9][5][13] / Champagne, France [4][10] {Paarl [3][14]}

Christening

Date: March 10th 1681 [8]
Baptism record Susanne Cordier in Epense on March 10th 1681 (born on March 7th). [8]

Immigration

Date: 1688 [to South Africa] [5]

Death

Date: Susanne (Suzanna [12]) Cordier passed away in 1714 [10] / in Nov 1714 [4][5][12][13] / about 1715. [3][11]
Age: About 36-37 [11]
Place: [Cape Town] [9] / [Heidelberg, WC, South Africa] [4][5][13][14] / Drakenstein [3]

Burial

Place: [Wellington, Suid Afrika, Kaap, Wellington, Kaap] [5]

Will

Extracts from estate inventory after decease, MOOC8/3.4:
Testator(s):
Susanna Cordie
25 Januarij 1715
Inventaaris en taxatie der goederen naergelaten en met er dood ontruijmd bij wijlen Susanna Cordie ten voordeele van haer man Louis Fouris ter eenre en
desselfs vijf minderjaerige kinderen geprocreert bij desselfs eerste huijsvrouw
Suzanna Fouri
Marta Fouri
Louis Fouri
Sara Fouri en
Jacobus Fouri
ter andere zijde...
.. Aldus g'inventariseert getaxceert en ter Weescaemer overgegeeven onder presentatie van eede van niets ter quaeder trouwe agter gehoude of te verzweegen te hebben. Cabo de Goede Hoop deesen 25:en Janvarij 1715
Dit is het merk L F van Louis Fouri [15]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Source: From - MyHeritage.com Louis le Riche ; Louis le Riche SV Seen and added by Philip van der Walt March 29, 2014.
  2. Profiles Susanne Fourie (Cordier-11) and Susanna Le Riche (Le Riche-6 - WikiTree profile Le Riche-6 created through the import of Boonzaier direct.ged on Oct 6, 2011 by Johan Boonzaier.) were merged by Philip van der Walt March 29, 2014; Le Riche-6 did not have any parents, the spouse was the same Louis Fourie, and this profile had one identical daughter. There is however a different Le Riche lineage from France to South Africa where the progenitor has the same first name Louis but different birth and death data. Alternate spellings surname: La Riche / Le Riche.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 WikiTree profile Cordier-11 created through the import of Pieterse Rev1.ged on Jun 1, 2011 by Esmé van der Westhuizen.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 WikiTree profile Cordier-38 created through the import of wikitree upload.ged on Jul 19, 2012 by Arrie Klopper.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 WikiTree profile Cordier-48 created through the import of Ancestors_DippenaarAndre_noinfo.GED on Oct 23, 2012 by Andrew Dippenaar.
  6. WikiTree profile Cordier-81 created by Heila Anonymous 8 September 2013. Source: Father and Koornhoff notes.
  7. 7.0 7.1 WikiTree profile Cordier-138 created by Gert Kruger 7 April 2015. Source:
    • SA Geslagsregister CD v6, Nel, p78.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Source: Archives.marne.fr > E dépôt 8220 - Baptêmes, marriages, sépultures 1640-1685 Frame 112 - number 46. Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Jun 26, 2018.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 WikiTree profile Cordier-16 created through the import of My Family.Pretorius.Van_Wyk.DeWaal.Potgieter.2011.ged on Sep 19, 2011 by Judy Potgieter. Contained the following inconsistent data: Date of birth = 1674; Date of baptism = 1715; Date of death = 1715. Philip van der Walt, January 27, 2014.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 WikiTree profile Cordier-61 created by Pieter Meyer, May 1, 2013.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 WikiTree profile Cordier-73 created through the import of f92435_505468x3f1i961v209i435 (1).ged on Jul 27, 2013 by Paul du Toit.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 WikiTree profile Cordier-50 created by Lou Larney, 16 November 2012.
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 WikiTree profile Fourie-1080 created through the import of Pienaar Family Tree.ged on May 29, 2014 by Johann Pienaar. Source:
  14. 14.0 14.1 Improbable. Philip van der Walt, May 30, 2015.
  15. Source: Inventories of the Orphan Chamber, Cape Town Archives Repository, South Africa, Ref no: MOOC8/3.4. Susanna Cordie. Seen and entered by Dirk le Roux on Jan 25, 2017.




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D Q
Baptism record in Epense on March 10th 1681 (born on March 7th).

Her father was is a merchant "de la Bournonville". I guess it's Bournonville, near La Neuville-aux-Bois. IIt's not that far from Epense (less than 5 miles).

http://archives.marne.fr/ark:/86869/a011310543781t6SGQq/1/1

Frame 112 - number 46

posted by D Q
The info under "Biography" here ended up from a merge done on 29 Mar 2014 and belongs to Le_Riché-44
posted by Dirk le Roux
Fourie-1080 and Cordier-11 appear to represent the same person because: Refer to the biography of Fourie-1080. This indicates that this is the same person
Cordier-138 and Cordier-11 appear to represent the same person because: Same data (name, spouse, child). Cordier already existed. Please merge.
posted by Philip van der Walt