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Titel: SV: South African Projenator - Andreas Anderson Appelgren Q2
Skrivet av: Anton Appelcryn skrivet 2018-05-23, 00:09
Thanks Kristina
You are correct that they are "Dutch"! That is what was originally thought of so many of the first South African projenators! There is a reason behind this which has been well documented in South Africa. The Dutch who colonised the Cape Colony first felt that they were the true founders of South Africa, and they treated pretty much everyone else as "foreigners"! Because the only record keepers of births, baptisms and marriages were the dutch churches and their ministers, there was a blatant disregard for any language preferences, and they spelled names and surnames "as they heard them, with the Dutch ear"!
They even did this with the French Hugenots so we have what we think should be French surnames such as Du Pre' etc which were changed to Du Preez etc. There is 1 record of my ancestor where he signed a marriage recotrd of his eldest daughter as AA Appelgren, but the minsiter who filled in the forms with the names of the bride and groom spelled hers as Appelgryn! In the same "county" in the mid 1800's 2 generations later, in the same church record book, there are great grandaughter and grandson's who 's baptisms have been captured with the spellings Appelgryn, Appelcryn, Appelcrijn etc - even when the parents names have been speeled differently on the same document!
Sons after Andreas were right through to my grandfather became Andries, with the odd Andreas thrown in every generation or so!