Roelof van Wijk - a possible timeline 
 
(established from various records)
email: Richard Ball
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Time line for Roelof van Wijck
apparently resident at the Cape 
from c.1686 until c.1698
1668 baptismal registers, Amsterdam, Nieuwe Kerk
January 18, Adriaan 
son of Roelof Adriaensz van Wijk and Trijntje Jans
1686 baptismal registers, Cape Town
den 13 April, Arien
ouders: Willem van Wyck en Tryntie Hillebrand
Getuijgen: Roelof en Tryntie van Wyck
1688 Muster Rolls
Roelof van Wijk en Trijntie ...
1688 Opgaaf returns - Cape district
Roelof van Wyk & Tryn
1 man 1 woman 1 son 
1 horse 4 cattle 180 sheep
1690 Muster Rolls (no wives shown in this year)
Aan Drakenstein
Roelof van Wijck
1691 Muster Rolls (no wives shown in this year)
An Stellenbosch
Roelof van Wijk
1692 Muster Rolls
Roelof van Wijk en Treijntje Jans 1 k.
1692 Opgaaf returns - Drakenstein
Roelof van Wyk & Treyntje Jansz 
1 man 1 woman 0 children 
2 horses 22 cattle 200 sheep 6000 vines
1693 Muster Rolls
District Drakenstein
Roelof van Wijck en Trijntje hans 
(other couples have numbers of children noted)
1694 baptismal registers, Cape Town
5 September een kind van Arij van Wijck 
en Cornelia [Collins] genaamt Roelof
getuijgen Roelof van Wijck en Trijntje Jans 
1695 Muster Rolls
District van Stellenbosch
Roelof van Wijk en Trijntje Jansz
1695 Opgaaf returns - Stellenbosch
Roelof van Wyk & Tryntje Jansz
1 man 0 women 0 children 
0 horses 90 cattle 150 sheep 2 pigs 10,000 vines 
(figures as given by UWC computerised opgaaf returns)
1696 Muster Rolls
District Stellenbosch
Roelof van Wijk en Trijntje Jansz.
1698 Muster Rolls
District Stellenbosch
Roelof van Wijk en Trijntje Jans
There are Muster rolls for 1700, 1701, 1702, 1703 and 1704 and Opgaaf returns for 1700 and 1702 but this couple apparently no longer appears

Both the Muster rolls and the Opgaaf returns exist only for some years. Some years of the Muster rolls list wife and children, others do not.

The Muster Rolls (monsterollen) were lists of the inhabitants at the Cape of Good Hope, drawn up separately for Company officials and Free persons, and dispatched to the Netherlands, where copies are preserved in the Ryksarchief, S'Gravenhage. 

What has been consulted here are the so called 'Verbatim Copies' kept in the Cape Archives, which are copies of those in the Ryksarchief.

Cape Archives VC39 and VC41

The Opgaaf (Tax) returns were lists of Free persons at the Cape with their belongings and their yearly produce, crops and animals, upon which their tax contribution was based. 

What has been consulted here is the computerised version of this information as produced at the University of the Western Cape.

The above notes were written and researched by Richard Ball ©2003
with help from Maureen De Villiers, André Kellerman, Bob Kernkamp and Helena Liebenberg.

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