User talk:Riaan

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Bothas [8 April 2012]

Riaan, is jy ook besig met die Bothas, or dalk 'n ander van?

Groete,

Ettienne Botha--Ecbotha 23:26, 7 April 2012 (EDT)

André Gauch, from France [16 February 2017]

Hello ! Please see Person:Andre Gauch (1) ! You wrote a commentar ... some "explanations" seem be false, for me !

"The earliest known surname was Gosse which means goat (boklam) in French. In the middle ages goats were the source of meat, milk and cheese in France. The Gosse family in all probability owned large herds of goats.

The Gosse family had a crest that indicated that they were major landowners. The Gosse crest shows the head of a moor surrounded by three red stars. The moor head might indicate that the family head was a 'kruisvader".

In the early times the Gosse family was many and staunch Catholics. During the 16th centaury they however got involved in the Reformation and became Protestants.

In 1853 the birth of Jean Gosse is mentioned, the son of the twenty year old Asa Gosse. Between 1583 and 1712 no mention is made of Gosse in any French records. The family apparently fled the growing prosecution of the Protestants. The families fled in three main groups - to Germany where the spelling became "Gause", to Switzerland (Gauch) and Scotland (Goss). Some of those who emigrated to Scotland moved on further to the British colonies in America.

Andre Gauch was from the town of Le Pont-de-Montvert on the Tarn in Languedoc, France. Fled to Switzerland to escape religious persecution of the Protestants by the Catholics. Andre Gauch and his first wife Jacqueline Decre and his second wife Jeanne de Klerk are the stamouers (progenitors) of the Gouws family in Southern Africa ".

I will remove or change some words, on this person page. Amicalement - Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 08:12, 16 February 2017 (UTC)