Pierre Joubert
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- This article is about the progenitor of this branch of the Joubert family in South Africa. For the French illustrator, see Pierre Joubert (illustrator).
Pierre Joubert is the progenitor of this branch of the Joubert family in South Africa. He was born at De La Motte d'Aigues, Provence, France in April 1663. He was part of the Huguenot population that fled France after the Catholics had started to violently protest Christian Protestantism. Joubert arrived on the Berg China in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa on 4 August 1688. His father, Jacques Jaubert, was born in about 1641 and his mother, Franςoise Rambert, in about 1645.
Numerous Huguenots had fled to The Netherlands in order to escape the Catholics. The spelling of the Joubert last time has sometimes been spelled as Jaubert by the Dutch. From the Netherlands they boarded ships destined for South Africa. The Dutch East India Company had a trading post at the Cape of Good Hope at the time, and many Dutch and other European immigrants went to South Africa in search for a new life or religious freedom.
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