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Willem Schalks van der Merwe 1 farmer 2 of Hout Bay, from 1677 and from about 1692, Drakenstein 3 born Broeck 4 died 12 July 1716 5 Notes: He arrived at the Cape as a bosskieter on the ship Dordrecht. This ship called at the Cape many times but did in fact arrive at the Cape on 26th April 1661 to depart on 5th May 1661, the date on which he was granted his letter of freedom so perhaps we can assume that he arrived on this voyage, which left Goeree in the Netherlands on 6th December 1660. (VC39,part 3, page123 and De VOCsite). At the end of March 1663 he petitioned the Council of Policy to take him back into Compay service and it complied, appointing him adelborst on a salary of 12 guldens per month. (Resolutions of the Council of Policy, C. 2, pp. 318-330. Saterdag ultimo Meert ao. 1663) He appears on the muster rolls of Company servants until 1665 and then, from 1666 in the muster rolls of independent settlers. (Muster rolls, VC 39) On the 23rd March 1677 the Council of Policy granted to Willem Schalck and Pieter van de Westhuisen land at Hout Bay which they were required to farm efficiently, and to contribute one tenth of its prouce to the Company each year. (Resolutions of the Council of Policy, C10, pp. 89-94. Dingsdagh 23 Maart 1677) On the 2nd February 1688 he was granted permission by the Burgerraad (Burger Council) of the Cape to transfer from the Cape area to go to live at Drakenstein (1 STB 15/2) and on the 7th September 1692, he was granted farm land at Drakenstein, on the Berg River. When precisely he moved his family there I don't yet know, but after May 1688 the baptisms of his children are no longer to be found in the Cape Town church registers, and were presumably recorded in the (now missing) Drakenstein church registers. (MOOC 9/1/23, Verkoop Conditien and 1 STB 15/2, Permissions to transfer) In her will dated 1710 his daughter, Jakomina Schalk, named her siblings then living; her sisters as 'Feijtie, Lena, Magtelt, Elsie, Neeltie, Eula' and her brothers as 'Schalk Willems, Pieter and Hendrik Schalk'. On 27th June 1707 he sold up his farm on the Berg River in Drakenstein and all his possessions, paying off all his debts. The money resulting was to be used to maintain him for the rest of his life and also his minor children. (MOOC 9/1/23, Verkoop Conditien, MOOC 13/1/,5, Boedelrekening)

married 9 September 1668 at Cape Town 6 Elsje Jacobs Cloeten died circa 1702

Sophia Schalk 1670 - aft.1736 children Schalk Willemsz 1673 - bef.1740 children Marritie Willemsdr 1675 - c1709 children Jacomina 1678 - c1713 Jacob b.1680 Pieternella 1682 - 1717 Aletta c1687 - c1729 children Lena b.1686 children Pieter b.1688 Magteld Willemsz c1691 - 1765 Elsie d. c1746 children Hendrik Willemsz: d.1762 children

children of Willem Schalks van der Merwe and Elsje Jacobs Cloeten Sophia Schalk van der Merwe 1670-after 1736 born 1670, at the Cape baptized 2 November 1670, Cape Town died after January 1736  married (1) 12 November 1684 Cape Town Roelof Pasman 7 died before 1695  married (2) 25 January 1696 Stellenbosch Pieter Robbertsz 8 died 1713 Landdrost and farmer of Stellenbosch Schalk Willemsz van der Merwe 1673-before 1740 born 1673 baptized 13 August 1673, Cape Town died before 21 March 1740  married circa June 1696 Anne Prevot 9 1681-before 1740 Marritie Willemsdr Schalk 1675-circa 1709 born 1675, at the Cape baptized 29 December 1675, Cape Town died circa October 1709, (estate accounts of Johannes Bocklenbergh)  married (1) (circa 1691-1692) Barend Burger 10 died 1705 blacksmith, farmer at Drakenstein of Leeuwensjagt and Landeskroon, Paarl Diamant  married (2) 24 July 1706 Cape Town Lambert Smit 11 farmer (1706) Jacomina Schalk 12 1678-circa 1713 born 1678, at the Cape 13 baptized 22 May 1678, Cape Town 14 died circa 1713 15 Notes: baptised as Jacoba, she first appears in the muster rolls dated 23 January 1702 with her husband Jan Schopping, and they continue to be listed until 1706. From this last date she is listed as Jacominjtje and that is how she is known until her death in 1713. The inventory drawn up on 12th September 1713, after her death names her heirs as her husband and her father, which means that she left no children.  married (1) circa 1702 (muster rolls of that year) 16 Jan Schupping died circa 1707 heemraad and farmer 17 died circa October 1707 18 will dated 6 October 1707 Notes: He is described as sick and weak of body and confined to bed in his will dated 6th October 1707 but is stil listed in the muster roll dated 31 December of that year. Since he and may, therefore, have died soon after that date.  married (2) circa 1709 (assumed from muster rolls) 20 Joost Heinrich Frisch 19 born circa 1679 of de Paarl Diamant 21 born circa 1679, Munden, Hanover 22 Notes: He married again, circa 1713, Francina Bastiaansz. Jacob van der Merwe born 1680 baptized 11 February 1680, Cape Town 23 Pieternella van der Merwe 1682-1717 born 1682 baptized 1 March 1682, Cape Town 24 died between 1717 and 1718 25 Notes: Two children of Johannes Cloeten and Petronella Schalk were baptised at Stellenbosch on 25th September 1717. They were named Gerrit and Petronella and the baptismal witnesses were Hendrik van der Merwe and his wife Catharina Cloeten, Schalk van der Merwe and Sophia van der Merwe, the sons and daughters of Willem Schalk van der Merwe and Elsje Jacobsz. I assume, therefore that the mother of the children was another of their children, having her brothers and sisters as baptismal witnesses. I am not sure, however, that she was the Petronella who was baptised to that couple in 1682. I thinks she may have been a later child, since she was not admitted a member of the Stellenbosch congregation until 1714 and did not apparently marry until around 1716 (when that child would have been 34). In 1710 her sister Jacomina listed her sisters thus 'Feijtie, Lena, Magtelt, Elsie, Neeltie, Eula', which would suggest that Neeljte was younger than Elsie. On the other hand, if 'Eula' represents Aeltie, then Neeltie and Aaltie could have been afterthoughts, added out of order(?)!  married circa 1716 (assumed) Johannes Cloeten Aletta van der Merwe circa 1687-circa 1729 born circa 1687, Cape of Good Hope baptized 30 April 1684, Cape Town died circa 1729  married (1) circa 1701 (probably at Drakenstein) Martinus van Staden 26 circa 1677-1707 farmer (1707) of Paarl Diamant  married (2) 14 August 1708 Stellenbosch Claas Jansz van Rensburg 27 circa 1661-circa 1728 farmer Lena van der Merwe born 1686 baptized 7 April 1686, Cape Town  married 3 December 1713 Stellenbosch Christiaan Maasdorp Pieter van der Merwe born 1688 baptized 16 May 1688, Cape Town 28 Notes: He appears in the Muster in 1709, 1710 and 1712 as Pieter Willemsz Schalk. Magteld Willemsz van der Merwe 29 circa 1691-1765 born circa 1691, at the Cape 30 died February 1765, Waveren 31  married 1708 Stellenbosch 32 Pieter Willems van Heerden circa 1682-1763 of Hase Craal, on the Berg Rivier, Drakenstein 33 born circa 1682 34 died 21 May 1763, Waveren 35 Elsie van der Merwe died circa 1746 died circa 1746  married 1707 (or earlier - muster rolls) Albert Lammertsz Meijburg 36 1672-circa 1749 farmer of Drakenstein Hendrik Willemsz: van der Merwe died 1762 born at the Cape died 17 September 1762, Drakenstein  married (1) 25 June 1717 Stellenbosch Catharina Cloete 37 died circa 1747  married (2) circa 1748 [assumed] Alleta Keijser 38 died circa 1750  married (3) circa 1751 [or later - assumed] Maria Fick 39 died circa 1805

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