The background of one Norman settler at the Cape remains a mystery: that of Jean le Roux (Roex). The name is frequently encountered both in French Calvinist records and among refugees in the United Provinces.186 It would seem probable that the Jean le Roux who became a member of the Walloon congregation at Amsterdam in May 1687 was the future Cape refugee, although another of that name from Normandy was accepted as a citizen of Groningen in 1682. A Pierre le Roux from the Pays de Caux was in Amsterdam in 1686.187 Also from Normandy were the ancestors of Francois le Sueur of Ooij in Gelderland, who came out to the Cape on the Midloo in 1729 as a Dutch Reformed church minister. His father Jacques fled from France with his parents Jean le Sueur and Marie Haulen in the last decade of the seventeenth century.18
* Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 5: Cape settlers I: from the Loire to the Channel
