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Willem van Wijk died 1702 Trijntjen Hillebrants died circa 1695

Gerrit van Wijk Willemsz: 1 of De Vaderlandse Rietklooff, Piquetberg 2 died circa 1737 3 will dated 27 March 1731 and filed 8 January 1738 4 Notes: He would seem to have been working as a farmhand (knegt) for Willem Basson on the latter's property in Cape Town between 1711 and 1713. (1)(2) On the 7th Novebmer 1712, named as Gerrit Willemsz van Wijk, he requested and was granted permission to move from living in the Drakenstein District, to that of the Cape. (3) Details of his family come from the Inventory taken in 1730 after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Vivier, the joint will he made with his second wife, Maria Provo (1731) and the will she made before her marriage to Gerrit van Schalkwyk (1740). The farm, Vaderlandse Rietkloof, was sold in 1730 at the settling up of the estate of Elisabeth Vivier. I don't know if Gerrit bought it in himself or not. For a discussion of his parentage and place in the family tree, see my notes on the several Gerrit van Wijks, and for a general discussion of the early Van Wijks see my introduction. 1. Muster Rolls VC49, p.240,1711 2. Willem Basson, MOOC 13/1/1,93 1713 3. 1 STB 1/4, 50 - Minutes of the Stellenbosch Heemraden

married (1) 26 April 1722 at Cape Town 5 Elisabeth Vivier 1698-before 1730 of De Vaderlandse Rietklooff, Piquetberg 6

Gerrit 1723 - c1796 children Abraham b.1725 Jacomina b.1727 Catharina Elisabeth b. c1730

married (2) 25 March 1731 at Cape Town 17 Maria Provo

Maria Elisabeth b.1733 Anna b.1734 Elsje b.1736 Johannes

children of Gerrit van Wijk and Elisabeth Vivier Gerrit van Wijk Gerritsz: 1723-circa 1796 born 1723 baptized 5 October 1723, Cape Town died circa December 1796, (assumed from filing date of will)  married 23 December 1753 Tulbagh Martha Smit 7 1736-circa 1821 Abraham van Wijk 8 born 1725 born 1725 9 baptized 19 August 1725, Cape Town 10 Jacomina van Wijk 11 born 1727 born 1727 12 baptized 24 August 1727, Cape Town 13 Catharina Elisabeth van Wijk 14 born circa 1730 born circa July 1730 15 baptized 15 October 1730, Cape Town 16 Notes: Swartland marriage register: 1748 den 19 7ber, Jochem Scholtz van Cabo de Goede Hoop burger aan Stellenbosch J.M. met Catharina Elisabeth van Wijk van Cabo voorn: jongedochter children of Gerrit van Wijk and Maria Provo Maria Elisabeth van Wijk 18 born 1733 born 1733 19 baptized 26 July 1733, Cape Town 20 Anna van Wijk 21 born 1734 born 1734 22 baptized 21 November 1734, Cape Town 23 Elsje van Wijk 24 born 1736 born 1736 25 baptized 21 October 1736, Cape Town 26 Johannes van Wijk 27 Notes: in October 1740, he is named as the fourth child from her previous marriage, but I have so far been unable to find a baptism for him.

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