When Elizabeth Maria Fourie was born on 28 August 1827, in Cradock, Cradock, Cape Colony, South Africa, her father, Louis Johannes Fourie, was 29 and her mother, Susanna Maria Johanna De Klerk, was 20. She married Barend Bernardus Swart in South Africa. She died in South Africa.
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Sand River Convention. Britain recognizes Transvaal as the independent Afrikaner South African Republic.
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Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State and Kimberley.
French (Fourié): variant of Fourier, an occupational name from Old French forrier ‘forager’, i.e. one responsible for ensuring the accommodation of troops passing through or a soldier sent out to gather forage. This surname is most common in South Africa.
History: The South African bearers of the surname Fourie (rarely Fourié) trace their origin to Louis Fourié, a Huguenot from Dauphiné, France, who arrived in the Dutch Cape Colony via the Netherlands in 1688. He married Suzanne Cordier c. 1694 and Anna Jourda(a)n c. 1716. He is recognized as a French Huguenot ancestor by the Huguenot Society of South Africa.
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