François Daniël Changuion

His father was François (1727-1777), a councilor of the court of justice in the Dutch colony of Essequibo, and his mother was Anna Geertruida (van) Gelskerke (1730-1795).

[1] In the mid 1790s Changuion had a relationship with Antonia van Limburgh (1766-1843), from which a son Fransch Antonie (1795-1797) was born.

Four children were born from their marriage: François Daniël (1801-1854), Louise Anne (1802-1872), Antoine Nicolas Ernest (1803-1881) and Laurent Jonathan (1805-1851).

[5] He joined them and their ideas about the organization of the country and from 17 to 29 November 1813 he acted as secretary of the Triumvirate or the provisional government.

[7] In January 1814 Changuion was appointed by the sovereign prince as the Netherlands' first envoy to the United States of America and in May he left for there with his family.

[9] In 1815, François Daniël Changuion was elevated to the Dutch nobility by King Willem I due to his role as secretary of the provisional government of the Netherlands (the Triumvirate under Van Hogendorp) in 1813.

His son Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion (1803-1881), who settled in Cape Town in 1831, became the progenitor of a numerous offspring in South Africa[15] who belong to the Dutch nobility.