De Bosch Heuvel / Boscheuvel / Bosheuvel / Bosheuwel aka Protea / Bishop’s Court
1658: grant to Cape’s 1st VOC Commander Jan van Riebeeck by VOC Commissioner Johannes Cunaeus
1662: Jacob Cornelisz: van Rosendael (from Amsterdam)
23 April 1676: his widow Catharina van den Berg (from Amsterdam) who marries Tobias Marquaert (from Hamburg)
25 August 1676: Tobias Marquaert
10 November 1677: Leendert Jansz: van Gijselen (from Den Haag)
1690: Cornelis (Neels) Petersen Linnes (from Christiania – now Oslo Norway)
1691: Guillaume (Guilliam) Eems / Heems (dies 1707) (from Brughes, Flanders)
1707: Anna van Banchem, widow of Guillaume (Guilliam) Eems / Heems who marries (2ndly) burgerraad s:r Hendrik Möller / Mulder
28 April 1709 Cape-born burgerraad s:r Hendrik Möller / Mulder (1683-1720)
1720: Anna van Banchem, widow of burgerraad s:r Hendrik Möller (1683-1720)
1726: Guilliam Heems Jr.
17 February 1758: Jacob van Reenen (from Memel)
13 September 1758: Jacob Friedrich Nöthling (from Deetz, Brandenburg)
1774: Johannes (Jan) Roep / Rupp (from Hanau)
1783: Peter Henken aka Pieter Heintjes / Henkes (from Goldap – Voivodeship of Warmian-Masurian, Poland)
1804: Justinus (Justus) Nikolaus Keer / Keur (from Eisenach, Saxony)
1805: Honoratus Conrad Maynier (from Leipzig) – adds over 77 morgen to place, beautifies buildings, plants many oak trees & names it Protea;
Sir Lowry Cole – British Governor of the Cape (1828-1843)
1836: Andreas Brink
1842: Honoratius Maynier – grandson of former owner
1834: Protea Village established on portion of farm by emancipated slaves to settle on condition they work for landlord
1848: Bishop Robert Gray arrives at Cape & rents Protea
1851: Miss Burdett-Coutts – Victorian philanthropist – purchases farm on behalf of Colonial Bishopric Fund which renames it Bishopscourt as residence for Bishop for princely sum of £4000; Bishop Gray establishes school hold prayer services & exercises pastoral care for 83 villagers
Present: official residence of Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town