Gideon Fourie

Gideon was born on August 27th, 1701 in Drakenstein.  Gideon's father was Louis Fourie and his mother was Suzanne Cordier. He had three brothers and six sisters, named Louis, Jacobus, Marcus, Susanna, Francois , Marie, Martha, Sara and Elizabeth. He had seven half-brothers and three half-sisters, named Pieter, David, Johannes, Petrus, Marcus, Stephanus, Jonathan, Susanna, Anna and Maria.  He died at the age of 13 on January 25th, 1715.