And the original whites who went to what is now RSA, was a mix of Dutch and French Huguenots who had fled to Holland, to escape being murdered by the French Catholics who were killing them.
And later on others emigrated to what is now RSA, from the UK and many other nations...and in more recent times, from other African nations too.
When I Googled the last name, the first thing that came up was some Belgian Priest who was caught diddling kids.
More likely than not a person with that name over here didn’t come directly from Holland.
It sounds Afrikaner to me.
He has one hit on ZabaSearch. In Michigan, not Ohio.
I believe that is correct. All of the links that I could find show an origin in Belgium.