Lombard South Africa

My name is Renier Lombard and I am the Webmaster of this site.My dad, Chris Lombard (Barend Christoffel), started the search for our ancestors and family. He has done most of the ground work in mapping the family tree. We still have many gaps and would love any information or photos. Click on the "family tree" link to see what and who we have mapped so far. For the record, as far as I know, most of us are Afrikaans speaking, but for interest's sake, I will leave the wording here in English.If you have any comments or feedback about this site, please click here to contact me.Lombard:1. French and English (also common in Ireland): ethnic name for someone from Lombardy in Italy. The region is named for the Germanic tribe which overran the area in the 6th century ad. Their name is attested only in the Latinized form Langobardi, but is clearly a Germanic name meaning 'long beards'. Early immigrants from Lomardy to London were often involved in banking and money lending, and the name came to be used from the 14th century onward as a generic term for a financier.