Pienaar

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Pienaar is a well-known

Huguenot settlers traveling with the Dutch East India Company.[2] The extended progenitors of the Pienaar clan are Jacques Pinard, a carpenter from Eure-et-Loir, and Esther Foucher (born Suèvres, Orléanais). After Esther's death Pinard later remarried Marthe le Fèbre, a native of Paarl.[2] An extensive genealogy of the Pienaar family in South Africa was compiled by ZJ (Sakkie) Pienaar, and privately published as "Die Pienaars in Suid-Afrika." An updated version of the Pienaar genealogy was compiled by Christo Viljoen, whose mother was née Pienaar, as the "Pienaar Familieregister" and published by the Huguenot Society of South Africa.[3]

Some of the descendants of the Pienaar progenitors include:

Characters in fiction

See also

References

  1. ^ Huguenot Society of South Africa
  2. ^ a b Jacques Pinard
  3. ^ "Huguenot Society of South Africa". www.hugenoot.org.za. Archived from the original on 2014-01-19.