Indeed, John. The Scots brought out by Lord Charles included a number of ministers (known in Afrikaans as dominees) and a number of teachers (or dominies to the Scots). Most of them learnt to speak Dutch and engendered a Dutch- or Afrikaans-speaking culture among the Boers. Several of them, including Andrew Murray snr, married Boer women.
Among them was a teacher named William Robertson who, after teaching school in Graaff-Reinet for some years and incidentally educating an ancestor of mine (a later president of the Oranje Vrij Staat), returned to Scotland and qualified as a minister. He was serving the gemeente (parish) of Worcester when it was decided to found a new town further downriver, which was then named Robertson.
The town of Worcester was one of a number named after members of his family (in this instance, his eldest brother, the Marquess of Worcester) by Lord Charles.
Robertson is now among the larger towns in the Overberg region. The region is home to a well-established wine and brandy industry.
My Afrikaner great-grandfather was a leading mover for Dr Andrew Murray (second son of Andrew snr) to move to Wellington, in the Western Cape, late in the 19th century. He argued that Dr Murray needed to spend time writing, and that the lesser responsibilities of his ministry in Wellington would enable this. While at Wellington, Murray wrote a number of devotional books that are still in print today.
A descendant of William Robertson married one of my grandmother’s sisters.
Regards,
Mike