General Notes
Het eers gevlug uit Frankryk en lid geword van die Waalse Gemeente in Amsterdam. Op 21 Desember 1687 neem hy afskeid van sy gemeente en kom na Suid Afrika. Daar is nioe sekerheid met watter skip hy gekom het nie. Hy gaan woon aan die Slangrivier, Drakenstein Distrik. In Drakenstein se regsiters is hy partykeer bekend as "Florit".
Louis Fourie was born in France. He married Suzanne Cordier had ten children with her. After her death he married Anne Jourdaan and had eleven childen with her. Not all his children grew up, some died young. He mainly used names from the Bible for his children. In the Drakenstein babtism records his name was sometimes spelt "FLORIT"