The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1971 - CDbooks - R - Us

The Swiss male residents of IGmberley gathered to celebratethe Swiss National day, 1 August 1888. . .............................. Cover pictureSusanna Margaretha Nicolet, 1780-1795 wife of Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon,Head of the Military Establishment at the Cape ......................... FrontispieceThe Cape of Good Hope as depicted by Albrecht Herport ........................... 58The original Laubscher Family Crest dated 1367 ......................................... 64Count Charles-Daniel de Meuron ................................................................ 190Old family crest: Urfer of B6nigen BE ......................................................... 194Johan Jacob Habluetzel ............................................................................... 198Swiss Male Choir Cape Town at National Day celebration 1945 ................ 234Philp Richard Marillier . .......... ..... ... .......... ... .... ... ......... .... .... ...... ... .............. 235Green Market-Square as depicted by Solomon Caesar Malan ..................... 238Sololnon Caesar Malan ............................................................................... 240Rudolphus Remigius Drossel ....................................................................... 244Wouter Antoine Groenewoud c.1870 ......................................................... 261Wilhelm August Schoch and Ida Schoch-Schiess ......................................... 272Johann Lanz and Anna Barbara Lanz-Minder .............................................. 312Frank Jose I(uttel ......................................................................................... 321Elizabeth Emily Fehr-Hiini .......................................................................... 323Arlnin Schniter ............................................................................................ 324John Blaser and Emil Klausler ..................................................................... 332Franz Josef Suter ......................................................................................... 335Charles Frederic Bothner ............................................................................. 352Charles Frederic Bothner smartly dressed in distuinguished company .......... 354Management and staff of BaBy Shoe factory c.1949 ............................ 362-363WaIter Largier ............................................................................................. 364Jacques Thudichuln ..................................................................................... 375Gustav Gyger's touring vehicle ................................................................... 378Elisabeth Hanni ........................................................................................... 378Dr Jakob Nanni ........................................................................................... 379Emma Nanni-Sondergger ............................................................................ 381Mittelholzer's aeroplane arriving in Cape Town Harbour ........................... 384Max Emil Biichi and Charles Bothner ........................................................ 388Rev. Johann Heinrich Lutz .......................................................................... 436Rev. Henri Theodore Gonin ........................................................................ 440Roman Catholic Cathedral, Pella 1894-1994 ............................................. 451First convent of the Holy Cross Sisters at Umtata, 1883 ............................. 461Mother Augustine with Hans Marti next to the Gipsy Moth ....................... 472Dr Maria Kunz conversing with traditional healer ....................................... 47317

LIST OF MAPSMap I South Mrica 1945 ................................................................Inside coverMap 2 Seaway to Batavia and Ceylon ......................................................... 26Map 3 Growth of the Settlement 1652-1806 ............................................. 45Map 4 The Cape Settlement c. 1660 .......................................................... 67LIST OF TABLESTable Dutch phonetics ........................................................................... ~Z(Table 2 Dutch money and its English equivalent ....................................... 2-:§.Z3Table 3 Muster Rolls of Company servants used in thecOlnpilations ... ... ............... ... ....... ....... .... ...................................... 30Table 4 Swiss arrivals analysed by cantons of origin 1652-1795 ............... 32Table 5 Arrivals and their occupation here 1652-1795 ............................. 34Table 6 Highest positions attained by Swiss in Company service 1652-1795.. 36Table 7 Swiss at the Cape 1652-1795 ....................................................... 38Table 8 Swiss freemen at the Cape 1652-1795 ......................................... 46Table 9 Condemned persons ..................................................................... 51Table 10 Number o(Swiss Roman Catholic missionaries arrived 1890-1990.. 216Table 11 Roman Catho1ic"missionaries at the Cape 1870-1990 ................ 216Table 12 Male and female immigrants at the Cape 1875-1941. ................. 217Table 13 Swiss arrivals 1800-1940 ............................................................. 220Table 14 Professions and trades of Swiss immigrants 1810-1910 ............. 222Table 15 Territorial distribution of Swiss Immigrants at the Cape 1810-1990. 225Table 16 State aided agricultural immigrants 1877/78 ............................... 285Table 17 Rate per annum of Swiss immigration 1925-1971 ....................... 411Table 18 Number of Swiss immigrants resident at the Cape 1795-1961 ..... 417Table 19 Swiss Imports into the Customs Union 1906-1955 ...................... 420Table 20 Exports to Switzerland 1955 and 1970 ....................................... 422Table 21 Chief imports from Switzerland 1962-1992 ................................ 426Table 22 Chief exports to Switzerland 1962-1992 ..................................... 427Table 23 Sections of the Brussels Nomenclature ......................................... 428Table 24 Comparing trade with Switzerland to that with Netherlands andCanada 1962-1992 ...................................................................... 429Table 25 Exchange rate Rand/Swiss Franc 1962-1992 ............................... 430Table 26 Size of the most important Maravian Mission stations in 1853.. 432Table 27 Vocations received by the IGng William's TownDominicans 1925-1994 .............................................................. 474Table 28 Origins of the Swiss IGng William's Town Dominicans .............. 47518

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