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Huguenot (originally Armadale), 8 Harris Road, Erf 89964; bought with furniture from the

Harris estate 1913 for £635.

The Reverend Hermanus Theodorus Kriel, born in Franschhoek, was a Dutch Reformed Church
dominee from a family of DRC dominees. In 1913 he bought Armadale and promptly changed

the name to Huguenot Villa and that is what it has been for more than 100 years. It was probably
bought as a retirement home as the Rev. Kriel moved constantly to different churches – none in

Cape Town. Unfortunately he died aged 72 living at his house in Worcester in 1916, 3 years after
buying Huguenot. (Figs. 3.42 & 3.43.) In 1925 his wife Martha Magdelena Kriel was living at

what she then called Hugo House when she died aged 68.

The Kriel house was sold by auction to Johannes Smuts de Villiers for £1,600 – a price that
included the entire contents. (Figs. 3.44 & 3.45.) Smuts, born in Paarl was an attorney and notary

with the Paarl Board of Executors. He is the grandfather of David Just well-known attorney here
in Kalk Bay.

Smuts de Villiers bought Huguenot with a view to its use by family, but instead it was rented out

for many years. He also bought Resthaven (David Just’s home) and Wynnstay above Clovelly
Station which was a summer holiday home for the family. On his death in 1948 the house was

transferred to his four children: Bully, Jac, Anna Hahn and the best known in Kalk Bay - Alison

Just. (Fig. 3.46.)

The pull of Kalk Bay proved strong for one member of the Kriel family and 24 years after they

had sold the house it was bought by one of the daughters: Marguerite Madaline Kriel in 1954.

She had sold her Main Road house in 1950. In 1956 she sold to James Kay McCallum who also
owned The Croft in Ladan Road. He died two years later whereafter the property was transferred

to his wife Violet Georgina McCallum (born Roberts).