Annie Sengers wrote: > Hello, > > I'am looking for the grand,grand parents of Frans Grazell(Grizell etc.) > I think that he was a Huguenot.He married in 1734 in Tiel (Holland).Can > anyone me given information about this man and his family in French or > Schweiz.In South-Africa is perhaps family with the name Gries(z)el.Who can > help me? > > > There is a family called Griesel in S.Africa, but they descend (or at > least the line I descend from descends) from Johannes David Grootschel (b. > abt 1730) from Copenhagen. He arrived in S.Africa in 1750 on the ship "the > Elephant" - a danish ship that became stranded in Mosselbay. The spelling > seems to have progressed from Grootschel (around 1761) via Grisschel (around > 1794) to Griesel (from 1800). Lesley Robertson