↑ «i»Stamvader is Georg Frederick of Friedrich Rautenbach from Tremnitz in Sake (Germany). Arrived in 1757 as a soldier. Burger in 1761 - lived in Swellendam. Died in 1805. He had a son from a marriage in Germany which son Johan Christoffel arrived at the Cape in 1780. He remarried on 18 April 1762 with Maria Magdalena Ferreira the widow of Frans Haarhof. 10 children from the marriage.«/i»