Willem SMIT, a4b2c4d3

Notes:

Burger Stellenbosch

Christened:
Alternative location: Stellenbosch

Willem married Hermina Christina DE BEER, b6c8 on 2 May 1779. Hermina (daughter of Matthys DE BEER, a2b6 and Maria VAN E(E)DEN, b4c4) was born in in Tulbagh, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 27 Mar 1763 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl); died in in Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burger Stellenbosch

Christoffel married Maria VAN WIJK on 8 Apr 1753 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa. Maria (daughter of Willem VAN WIJK, a2b6 and Johanna Catharina CAMPHER, b1c1) was born about 1732; was christened on 25 Jun 1732 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl); died in in Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Later boer op die plaas Sútrij of Lútrij, Stellenbosch.

Christoffel married Catharina LE FEBRE, a2b5 on 9 Feb 1721 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa. Catharina (daughter of Pierre LE FEBRE, a2 and Maria DE GRAVE) was born on 27 Aug 1688 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa; was christened on 27 Aug 1688; died in 1760 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

If her birth and marriage dates are correct then she was 12 years old when married which is extremely unlikely, presuming that her marriage date is
correct then she was born in France. Her daughter, Appolonia was born in 1706 so 1700 for marriage is probably correct.

- Momberg/Becker Databasis

Notes:

In addition to their main farm where they lived, two other loan farms,d'Matkamme and d'Oorlogsfontijn, all in the same area, accoding to
the inventory drawn up after his death.
In the church register, the minister recorded that during the wedding ceremony the bride held in her arms a child who had been baptised that same day and named Katharina, in order to legitimise her, and that, between the couple stood another child whose name was not known to him.
For a discussion of his parentage and place in the family tree, see my notes on his mother, Trijntje Harmens, and for ageneral discussion of the early Van Wijks see my introduction.
There is a baptism in the early (and possibly defective) registers of Drakenstein which might apply to him:
31 Julij 1703 Guillaume, d'Vader Willem van (sic), d'Moeder Trijn arme
but this date seems to be too late for him to be the son of Willem van Wijk, unless the baptism came rather longer after the birth than seems to have been usual at that time, or that in copying the baptism was mistakenly put under 1703 rather than 1702 where it would make sense.

Willem married Johanna Catharina CAMPHER, b1c1 on 2 Jan 1729 in Drakenstein, Cape, South Africa(Paarl). Johanna (daughter of Cornelis CAMPHER, b1 and Dorothea OELOFSE, b3) was christened on 19 Jun 1707 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; died about 1746 in Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sy was 'n buite egtelike kind van Dorothea Oelofse

Notes:

Jan Smit was a soldier stationed in Delft in 1681

Arrived at the Cape about 1688 from Maastricht, Nethetlands with wife and two children, burger at Stellenbosch. Probably died between 1 and 5/6.10.1696 after a verbal duel and fight with one Jacob Cloete about the manner in which he handled his horse.

SMIT en SMITH Jan Smlt, v. Maastricht, in Nederland. Burger Stellenbosch. x Adriana Tol, Y. Delft; Sy xx Stellenbosch 11.1.1705 Andreas Kuyper, v. Stettin.


From: d.debeer
To: Genforum
Subject: [GenForum] Smit/Tol 3
Date: 30 September 2001 06:35

Lysvriende,
My derde poging om hierdie geskriffie volledig in die kuberruimte te kry!

Die Smit - Tol konneksie.

Dis hoe ek en Jaleen dit uitgewerk het.Beginnende by die De Beer stamvader, Matthys Andries en die stammoeder,
Hilletje Smit, en dan terugwerkend.

Matthys Andries de Beer *?, +1730x op 24.10.1705 te Stellenbosch met Hilletje Smit, =01.04.1691, +16.12.1760Land van Waveren. Na Matthys se oorlye in 1730, trou Hilletje baie jarelater (1757) met wew. Johan Georch Zorn. (Dis hoe ons dit het en dis hoe De
V/Pama dit het).
Haar ouers : Jan Smit, vam Maastricht x Adriana Tol, van Delft. De V/Pama het dit so, maar sonder troudatum.Maar Jaleen het sowat 'n jaar gelede op haar internet snuffeltog hierdie troudatum ontdek in die registers van Delft, Holland as 20.12.1681. Ek het ook daarna gekyk by Delft se Argief en ons dink dit is die korrekte troudatum Dit lyk korrek volgens die geb. datums van die Smit kinders en ook volgens die vernoemings van die De Beer kinders - een van die kleindogters is Johanna Adriana, vermoedelik vernoem na die Ouma, Adriana Tol. Daarna kom hierdie naam dikwels voor by die De Beers.
Ons het nie die Smit of Tol families verder terug nagevors nie, want ons het net 'n indirekte belang daarby, dus kan ek nie verder terug kommentaar lewer nie. Maar ons is oop vir nuwe gesigspunte.
Lucas se verwysing na Matthys Andries se konneksie met Maria 'van de Caab' is ook korrek. Hierdie 'konneksietjie' het moontlik reeds in 1704 of begin 1705 plaasgevind en uit hierdie 'konneksietjie' is 'n voorkind, 'n dogter, Geertruy gebore. Sy is gedoop te Stellenbosch 08.11.1705. (Net sowat 15 dae nadat Matthys Andries de Beer wettig met Hilletje Smit getroud en gekerk
is!) Dit is ook in die De Beer boek so aangedui.
Hoop dit werp bietjie lig op die saak. Vanaf ons kant gesien, en met die gegewens tot ons beskikking.

Groete,
Diwwie.

Email to Sa-Gen - Richard Ball - 9.9.2004
Beste Elmien,
Hier is 'n eksemplaar van 'n inskrywing in die Delft Ondertrouwboek vir Adriana Tol en Jan Smit, saam met die aantekenings van die
huwelikshof daaroor:
http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/notes/smit_sennen_note.htm

Groete,

Richard

Jan Smit van Maastrich (D & P p886) x Delft 20.12.1681 Adriaantje Tol (xx Andreas Kuyper van Stettin) d/v Jacob Tol en Elisabeth van der Piet.
Jan Smit soldier in the company of Captain Moor (1681) of the garrison at Delft and, from 1687, Jonkers Hoek in Stellenbosch born Maastricht died October 1696

Notes: At his marriage he was described as a soldier in the company of Captain Moor, at present garrisoned in the town (of Delft). A child of Johannes Smith was buried at the Oude Kerk, Delft on the 2nd March 1683, described as ' een baarkind' (ie. between one and 12 years old). Could this have been Christoffel, the son of Lucretia van Senne? Or might it have referred to his son, Johannes, baptised just two months previously? In a declarion signed before the Secretary of Stellenbosch on the 11th October 1705 and witnessed by Augustus Meijhuijsen and Jacobus Smit, Johannes Mulder and Dirk Coetsee, both Old Heemraden, stated that it was known to them that a certain farm in Jan de Jonkers Hoek, to the east above the farm of the late Jan de Jonker, had been in the possesion of Jan Smit from 1687 until his death and was still in the possesion of Andries Cuijper as the husband of Jan Smit's widow. A Jan Smit is listed in the Cape muster rolls from 1690 on, (there are no muster rolls between 1686 and 1690) but Jan Smit and Adriana Tol as a couple are first mentioned in the1692 rolls, resident at Stellenbosch with four children. In the 1692 Opgaafrol (tax return) they are listed as having three sons and one daughter, one pistol, one rifle (?- seijd geweer), one flintlock, two horses and six oxen. In 1693 and 1695 they are listed again, on both occasions with five children, Johannes Smit being described as 'from Maastricht' in the 1693 roll. In 1696 we have just 'the widow of Jan Smith' (this muster roll made no note of children) and in 1698 'the widow of Jan Smith with 6 children'. On 1st October 1696 Jan Smit was insulted by Jacob Cloete. Enraged, Smit drew his rapier, but Cloete evaded the blows and clouted Smit with a piece of wood, beat him with his fists and kicked his chest, shouting: 'Lie there, you dog!'. Within a very few days, during which he suffered continual pain in his chest, Jan Smit died. (source: Cape Archives, 1/STB 18/153, Notarial Declarations <../notes/note_JanSmitDeath.htm>)


Van Maastricht, Nederland, burger Stellenbosch.

Jan Smit ry te perd en raak op 1 Oktober 1696 in 'n woordewisseling oor die manier waarop hy sy perd behandel, met ene Jacob Cloete betrokke. Die argument ontaard in 'n fisiese bakleiery en die woedende Jan Smit ruk 'n dolk uit. Cloete trek sy swaard, maar dit word van hom weggeneem deur Jan Harmensz Smit, seun van Harmen Jansz Smit. Jan Harmensz beveel toe vir Cloete aan dat hy liewer 'n stuk hout moet gebruik om Jan Smit mee neer te vel.. Daarna maak Jan Harmensz 'n gewraakte stelling wat min of meer lui: "Dit kan nie geduld word dat 'n [gebore] Kaapse kind (Cloete) voor 'n kêrel (Jan Smit) van die vaderland (Holland) swig nie. Hierop slaan Jacob Cloete eers vir Smit met 'n stuk hout plat, slaan hom daarna behoorlik met die vuiste en trap hom ten slotte op sy bors teen die grond vas, terwyl hy skree: "Lê daar, jou hond!"

Gedurende die volgende paar dae ly Jan Smit aan 'n aanhoudende pyn in sy borskas en hy sterf uiteindelik aan sy beserings. Ons weet nie presies op watter dag hy oorlede is nie, maar op 6 Oktober lewer 'n Lid van die Stellenbosch Heemraad, Mattijs Greef, 'n verslag oor sy bevindings nadat hy die lyk van Jan Smit ondersoek het. (Ons kan dus aanvaar dat hy iewers tussen 1 en 6 Oktober 1696 oorlede is). Greef kon geen sigbare letsels vind nie, en verklaar dat daar geen bewyse is waaraan die dood van Smit toegeskryf kan word nie – nie weens Jan Smit se eie perd of andersins nie.

Afkomstig van Maastricht. Burger van Stellenbosch.

Died:
As the result of a fight over the way he treated his horse, with
Jabob Cloete

Jan married Adriana TOL on 20 Dec 1681 in Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, Netherlands. Adriana (daughter of Jacob TOL OR THOL and Lijsbet Dircx VAN DER PIET) was born in 1656 in Delft, Netherlands; was christened on 16 Jul 1656 in Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, Netherlands; died on 15 Feb 1729 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa; was buried in 1652 in Oude Kerk, Delft, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Alternative date: 29.7.1649

Sy kom vanaf Delft Nederland

From: HCV
To:
Subject: [GenForum] WINGERDGRIEP
Date: 29 September 2001 04:48

Beste Mark

Dankie vir die verwysing. (Hier kom nou 'n paar geraamtes uit die kas....)
Volgens Capensis 4/99 is die resolusies die eerste keer in 1825 in Het Nederduitsch Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift gepubliseer. Ek haal aan uit Capensis:

"Extract van het gepasseerde in die Kerkelyke Vergadering, gehouden aan Stellenbosch den 27 Sept. 1700.
Geresolveerd om aanstaande Sondag, over veertien dagen, des H.H. Avondmaal te houden.
In het leren bevonden en geresolveerd, dat Anna Maria Holst, haar dronkenschap zou scherpelyk voorgehouden worden, met bedryging, dat, indien volhard, haar te suspenderen, en 't Avondmaal te ontzeggen.
Arriaantze Jans, over dronkenschap sou werden berispt. Wemmer Pasman en Cornelia Cempenaar, voor die laatste maal, ernstig zouden werden aangesproken over haar dronkenschap.
Jan Janse Swart en zyne huisvrouw Grietze Clase Koen, over kwaad huishouden en dronkenschap gesuspendeerd tot beterschap toonen.
Coenraad Cyffer, Jacobus van Driel en de vrouw van Andries de Noordman, aan te spreken.
Aldus gedaan gen gepasseerd, dato als boven.

Resolusie van 28 Maart 1701:

"Is geresolveerd den 17 April den H.H. Avondmaal te houden.
Wemmer Pasman en syn huis vrouw in 't suspens gecontinueerd.
Arriantje Tol, in het suspens gecontinueerd.
Jan Jansse Swart en Grietje Claasse Koen, in het suspens gecontinueerd.
Aldus gedaan en gepasseerd in onze ordinaare Kerkelyke Vergaedering, dato als boven."

Einde aanhaling. Dan volg die handtekeninge van Hercules van Loon, van der Byl TT, Jacob van der Heyde.

In voetnotas gee die Capensis skrywer meer besonderhede oor die individûe:

Anna Maria Holtst is waarskynlik die weduwee van Hans Jacob Huben/Huber.
Arriaantze Jans is die vrou van Jan Smit, later x Andries Kuyper.
Cornelia Cempenaar was die weduwee van Francois Villion; trou as weduwee met Wemmer Pasman.
Jan Janse Swart was skynbaar afgedank as scriba (moontlik agv sy drankprobleem)
Andries de Noordman was ook bekend as Andries Olofssen/Oelofsen.

Groete
Christo
----------------------
Sy was Adriaantje Tol. Na haar man se dood het sy as rietkapper 'n inkomste verdien (De Wet se Vryliede en Vryswartes in die Kaapse Nedersetting p.84). Die kerk het haar onder sensuur geplaas oor haar misbruik van drank.
-----------------
Adriana Tol
of Oudenlangendijck, Delft later, of Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope born 1656, Delft baptized 16 July 1656, Nieuwe Kerk, Delft died after 1722

Notes:
In the marriage entry in the Stellenbosch register for her later marriage to Andries Cuyper, she is described as being from or of Delft 'van Delft'. I have assumed that the Aryaentje Tol who was baptised on 16 July 1656 in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, is the same person as the Adriana Tol who, by 1688, was living in the Cape. I have not yet discovered any proof positive of this but for my reasoning see my notes <../notes/note_tol.htm>. On 22nd December 1685, named as Adriana Jacobsz. Tol, the wife of Johannes Smit, soldier, she appeared before the Delft Weeskamer and stated that she was now supported by her husband. She declared that her mother had raised and provided for her properly; she thanked her for her good care and freed her of any further obligation. From 1692 through to 1695 she is listed in the muster rolls as living in Stellenbosch with Jan Smit, but from 1696 she is listed as his widow. On the 29th June 1700, the Stellenbosch Church Meeting suspended her from church services for a year. The reason is not stated other than that she is admonished to live a better life. Unfortunately none of the earlier Stellenbosch Church Meeting minutes, which might have contained a previous warning, appear to have survived. A year later, on the 28th March 1701, her suspension was continued.

married (1) 4 January 1682 at Schipluiden (this date is not certain)

( see notes <../notes/smit_sennen_note.htm> for circumstances surrounding their marriage)

Johann Ahlers Databasis

Drie jaar na haar man se dood het sy 'n dogter: Johanna, gedoop te Stellenbosch op 20 Julie 1700. die vader is onbekend. Sy trou op 11 Januarie 1705 met Andreas Kuyper van Nederland. Geen kinders.

"Daar vind ek die volgende:doop:Adriana Vader Jacob Tol Moeder Lijsbet Dircx Getuige: Pleunis van der Piet, Barbara van der Piet,Engelken Gijsenbiers. Plaats Delft Datum doop 29-07-1649DTB Delft inv.nr.56 Doopboek Nieuwe Kerk, folio 164 v***trou:Johannes Smits met Adriana Tol Plaats Delft Datum ondertrouw 25-10-1681 Datum trouwen 20-12-1681Delft inv. nr.132 Ondertrouwboeken Gerecht Delft inv. nr.75 Trouwboek Nieuwe Kerk



Na haar man se dood versprei die weduwee, Adriana, die woord dat Jan Cloete haar van haar man ontneem het. (Sy kon waarskynlik nie die feit aanvaar dat Cloete skotvry daarvan afgekom het nie). Die Cloete-ouers het nie met haar gerugte verlief geneem nie, en eindelik het Adriana na ‘n lang ondersoek ‘n dokument moes onderteken waarin sy die opregtheid van die Cloetes aanvaar en ook die onderneming gee om nooit weer sulke kwade gerugte te versprei nie. Sy het volgens die dokument self aanvaar dat Jacob Cloete nie vir haar man se dood verantwoordelik gehou kan word nie. (Of die volle waarheid geseëvier het, sal ons nooit met sekerheid weet nie. Feit is dat Adriana Smit – nou ‘n weduwee met ses kinders -- aanvanklik nie die nodige gemoedsrus aangaande die omstandighede rondom haar man se dood kon kry nie).

Die droefheid van die familie eindig nie hier nie, want ongeveer drie jaar later raak die weduwee, Adriana, as ‘n ongehude vrou swanger. ‘n Dogtertjie, Johanna, word op 20 Junie 1700 in die kerk op Stellenbosch ten doop gebring. Die naam van die vader word nie in die doopregister ingevul nie. (Dit kan blote nalatigheid aan die kant van die persoon wat die doopregister ingevul het wees, maar moontlik was Adriana onwillig om die naam van die vader bekend te maak. Of sy toe reeds met Adriaan Kuiper -- haar latere tweede man -- ‘n verhouding gehad het, sal ons maar net kan raai).

Voorts is die name van die twee getuies, ene Joggum sa sachs en Martha le Febre, in die doopregister ingeskryf. Die hele inskrywing is in die onderste regterhoek van die bladsy ingedruk. Waarskynlik as gevolg hiervan, word die moontlike tweede naam van Joggum slegs as sa geskryf. (‘n Ander moontlikheid is dat dit slegs ‘n eerste poging was om die van sachs te skryf). Joggum [Joachim] kon dus moontlik die tweede naam Salomon, Sacharias, Sarel of enige ander derglike tweede naam wat met die letters sa [Sa] begin het, gehad het. Die kombinasie Joachim Salomon kom redelik dikwels in Duitsland en ander lande voor, en hoewel daar nie ‘n Joachim Salomon Sachs onder die vroeë Duitse immigrante na die Kaap was nie, was daar wel ‘n Joachim Sachs wat in 1705 gedeporteer is. Was hierdie Joachim Sachs miskien die getuie?

Dit is nie bekend of Johanna haar moeder (Adriana) se nooiensvan, Tol, of wel haar vader se van, Smit, gedra het nie. Voorts is daar onsekerheid, maar ook sterk twyfel of Johanna wel lank gelewe het, want tot en met Adriana se hertroue, en daarna, word daar geen verdere melding van Johanna in enige ander ou dokumente aan die Kaap gemaak nie.
Adriana se probleme het nie met die geboorte en doop van haar kind, Johanna, tot ‘n einde gekom nie. Nege dae na die kind se doop op 29 Junie 1700, word sy ná ‘n vergadering van die Kerk in Stellenbosch onder kerklike tug geplaas. Sy word van haar regte ontneem om vir ‘n jaar lank enige kerkdienste by te woon. Die Kerk het haar ernstig versoek om ‘n “beter lewe” te lei (wat dit ook al mag beteken het). Bewyse bestaan dat haar tug op 28 Maart 1701 nog nie uitgedien of herroep was nie, maar ongelukkig het alle kerkdokumente wat verdere lig op die saak kon werp, verlore geraak.
(Of dit ‘n vroeëre “toesmeer” van gebeure, of bloot net gebrekkige navorsing was, weet ons nie. Maar navorsing van die verlede beweer dat Jan Smit eers in 1704 oorlede is en dat die weduwee, Adriana, op 11.01.1705 met Andries Cuyper (Cuijper/ Kuyper/Kuiper) -- ‘n skeepsskrynwerker van Stettin, in Nederland -- op Stellenbosch getrou het. Hulle het geen kinders gehad nie en het gedurende Junie van 1705 in die omgewing van die huidige Jonkershoek gewoon. Volgens alle aanduidings is Andries Cuyper waarskynlik reeds voor die jaar 1722 oorlede.

Die vroeëre bewese gebeure rondom die dood van Jan Smit, die kerklike tug van Adriana, en die geboorte van Johanna, weerlê natuurlik geheel en al hierdie ander en meer “sagte” weergawe van die weduwee Adriana Smit se lewe na Jan Smit se tragiese en ontydige dood tussen 1 en 6 Oktober 1696).

Die weduwee, Adriana Kuyper, sterf waarskynlik ‘n geruime tyd later as 1722, maar geen presiese datum kon tot dusver aan haar dood gekoppel word nie.

Afkomstig van Delft. Trou op 11.1.1705 te Stellenbosch met Andreas KUYPER van Stettin.

Christened:
Alternative date: 29.7.1649

Notes:

Married:
1687 in ander bronne?

Notes:

Arrived at the Cape in 1683 with his wife. In the marriage register of Guines, France there is an entry on 9.5.1677 of a marriage of Pierre Le Febre with Marie Guignart which could possibly that of the immigrant. Lived at Fleurbaix.
du Plooy.paf: Hulle was van die dorpie Fleurbaix in die destydse Franse provisie Artois, afkomstig. Aankoms 1683 met sy vrou. In 1696 woon hy op die plaas "Fleurbaai" onder Stellenbosch. Saam met hulle was Pierre se suster, Barbere, wat in 1684 trou met Nikolaus Cleef.

Birth:
Alternative location: Fleurbaix, Pays De L'alleu, France

Pierre married Maria DE GRAVE about 9 May 1677 in Fleaurbaix, Pays de L'alleu, France. Maria was born about 1654 in Fleurbaix, Pays de L'Alleu, France; died in in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

aankoms 1683 saam met haar man ±FR [1707]

Notes:

Married:
Alt Marriage: Pierre le FEBRE, a2 Date: 9 May 1677 Location: Guines, Pays De L'alleu, Frankryk

Notes:

Arrived about 1676/78 from Engen, Netherlands.
Johan van Deventer's text read, '. . . there are serious errors in the Van Wijck/Wijk/Wyk family tree. Roelof (not even mentioned in dV/P) is a1 and the father of Adrian (Arie) referred to as a2 in dV/P. It is more likely that Roelof and Willem were brothers with the same father but different mothers. Roelof (*abt 1643 in Holland), his wife Trijntje Jans (*abt 1637) and their son Arie van Wijck (~18/1/1655 in Amsterdam) came to SA about 1677. At the same time Willem van Wijck (*bef 1655) also arrived in SA.'
Volgens Pama II van Engen in Nederland afkomstig. Kom omstreeks 1676/78? in die Kaap aan.

Vanuit De Villers en Pama Vol II
Van WYK Willem van Wyk. v. Engen, in Nederland. Aank. omstr. 1676/8, x 5.8.1685 Catharina Hillebrandt.1148

From: A & M van Rensburg
To:
Subject: [GenForum] Elizabeth VAN WYK
Date: 14 November 2001 04:24

Goeie More Richard en Jean,Baie dankie vir die inligting. Ek soek baie keer om my bron te kry en dan kan ek sommer myself skop.
Jean jy het melding gemaak dat "Elisabeth van Wyk(1683-1720) was 'n
dogter van Willem van Wyk en Anna Pieterse"
Margaret Cairns meld op bladsy 57 dat die twee broers Willem en Arie VANWYK het in 1678 na die Kaap gekom,.................................

Groete
André van Rensburg

http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/kfp/I225.htmlHe first appears at the Cape as a Company servant, working in the Company's Garden in 1672. By 1678 he was a free burger, working in partnership with Gerrit Teunisz and later with Hans Erntrout. (see my timeline for Willem van Wijk).
Two children by his first wife are recorded in the baptismal registers of the Cape Town congregation; Arie and Jannetie. The inventory taken after the death of his first wife, dated the 10th March 1695, notes that she left two minor children. Theseare named in the Weeskamer record dated 2 September 1712 as Arij and Gerrit van Wijk, so presumably Jannetie had died before 1695.
The children born of his second marriage are also listed in the 1712 Weeskamer note mentioned above, as Maria, Anna and Willem van Wijk.
For his wives and children see my notes on Trijntje Harmensz, his second wife, and for a general discussion of the early Van Wijks see my notes.
Willem van Wijk of Sandwijk, in Drakensteijn died 1702, (bet 23 January and 31st March)

Notes:He first appears at the Cape as a Company servant, working in the Company's Garden in 1672. By 1678 he was a free burger, working in partnership with Gerrit Teunisz and later with Hans Erntrout. (see my timeline for Willem van Wijk <../notes/VanWijkWillemTimeline.htm>). Two children by his first wife are recorded in the baptismal registers of the Cape Town congregation; Arie and Jannetie. The inventory taken after the death of his first wife, dated the 10th March 1695, notes that she left two minor children. These are named in the Weeskamer record dated 2 September 1712 as Arij and Gerrit van Wijk, so presumably Jannetie had died before 1695. The children born of his second marriage are also listed in the 1712 Weeskamer note mentioned above, as Maria, Anna and Willem van Wijk. For his wives and children see my notes on Trijntje Harmensz <../notes/Harmenz_Trijntje.htm>, his second wife, and for a general discussion of the early Van Wijks see my notes <../notes/VanWijk_intro.htm>.

Birth:
Alt Birth: Bef 1655 Amsterdam, Holland

Died:
Died between 23rd January and 31st March

Willem married Trijntje HARMENSZ about 1694. Trijntje and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Trijntje Harmens is first recorded living with Willem van Wijk as his wife in the Opgaaf Roll of 1695, and she continues in the Muster and Opgaaf records as his wife until she is recorded as his widow in 1702.
On 31st March 1702 Trijntje Harmensz: is named in the Weeskamer minutes as the widow of Willem van Wijk who had first been married to Trijntje Hillebrands. I assume that the marriage took place at Drakenstein - there is no record of it or its date.
In the Opgaaf rolls of 1695 Willem and Trijntje Harmens are recorded with two sons and one daughter. The two sons must be Arij and Gerrit, sons of the first wife so the daughter must belong to Trijntje Hermansz: and is possibly Anna van Wijk, suggesting that Willem and Trijntje Harmensz must have been together since 1694 and, pending further evidence, I shall assume the marriage took place then.
By 1700 (Opgaaf roll) they have two sons and two daughters, suggesting that Anna had been born by then, and in 1702 they are listed with 3 sons and 2 daughters, giving a possible birth date for Willem.
The couple are recorded in all these records as living in Drakenstein. There are no records of the baptism of any of children of this couple in any of the Cape baptismal registers of the period, except possibly one in the Drakenstein Church Records. The Drakenstein baptisms which would have covered this period are known to be in large part lost or defective.

Notes:

Married:
They first appear as a couple in the opgaaf returns of 1695, apparently already with a child. The marriage is assumed to have taken place at Drakenstein.

Notes:

!SAG vol 1 page 542 b1

Cornelis married Dorothea OELOFSE, b3 on 7 Jan 1709 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa. Dorothea (daughter of Andreas OELOFSE, progenitor and Sara VAN GYSELEN) was born about 1695 in Cape, South Africa; was christened about 1695; died in in Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sy het 'n buite egtelike dogter wat as Johanna Catharina met willem van Wyk getroud is
!De Villiers Pama page 663 b3