Welcome to the website of the oldest Rudolph Family in South Africa.
The Rudolph Family could possibly trace it's origins back to
Rudolph I
(of the Habsburg House), (May 1, 1218 – July 15, 1291).
The Rudolph Family in South Africa lists descendants of
Johann Bernhard(t) Rudolph who arrived in South Africa
in 1756 as a soldier of the VOC, and some of the extended family.
He was the 6th of 8 children born to Johann Jacob Rudeloff
and his first wife Anna Gerdrutha Klercke on 1st December
1732 in Eshwege, Hessen region, Germany.
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