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Personal data Willem Schalk Schalkszoon van der Merwe 

• He was born on April 14, 1648 in Fr.Oud-Beyerland (Nr. Rotterdam), Netherlands.
• He was christened in the year 1644 in Oud Beijerland, Zuid Holland, Netherlands.

  Attention: Baptized (??-??-1644) before born (April 14, 1648) .

• Emigrated in the year 1660, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
• Emigrated in the year 1661, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
• Immigrated on April 26, 1661 vanuit Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa.
• Profession: in the year 1663 "adelborst belast met landbou" for the VOC, Midshipman/farmer, Farmer, Landbouer, Eers VOC amptenaar - toe vryburger, militiaman, gardener, farmer in Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa.
• Resident: Drakenstein, Caep de Goede Hoop, South Africa.
• (Huwelik) on September 9, 1668.
• (Marriage) on September 9, 1668 in Cape Town, Cape, South Africa: Spouse: Elsje Jacobs van der Merwe (born Cloete), b2.
• (PROP) on September 7, 1692: the farmland 'de Kinnenborgh' at Drakenstein, on the Berg River..
• He died on July 12, 1716 in Cape Town, South Africa, he was 68 years old.
• He is buried in Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa.
• A child of Schalk Willemsz van der Merwe and Aletta van der Linde

Household of Willem Schalk Schalkszoon van der Merwe

(1) He is married to Koddo (Slavin S van der Stel Companjie) van Guinea (Benin).

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Maria Schalk van der Merwe  1664-1700
2. Isabella van der Merwe  1665-???? 
3. Derkje van der Merwe  1665-????
4. Jannetje Johanna van der Merwe  1666-± 1713 

(2) He is married to Elsje Jacobs (Adelheidis ) Cloete.

They got married on September 9, 1668 at Cape Town, Cape, South Africa, he was 20 years old.

Spouse: Willem Schalk van der Merwe, SV/PROG

Child(ren):

1. Sophia Schalk Willemsz van der Merwe  < 1670-± 1742 
2. Schalk Willemsz Hendrik van der Merwe  1673-1740 
3. Marietje Maria van der Merwe  < 1675-1709 
4. Jacoba Jacomina van der Merwe  < 1678-± 1713
5. Jacob van der Merwe  1680-1769
6. Petronella van der Merwe  1682-1747
7. Aaltje (Aletta) van der Merwe  1684-1729 
8. Helena (Lena) van der Merwe  1686-± 1721
9. Pieter van der Merwe  1688-1763
10. Magdalena (Magteld) van der Merwe  1690-1765 
11. Magdalena Magtelt van der Merwe  1690-1765 
12. Elsje van der Merwe  1692-1745
13. Eula van der Merwe, b13  1696-1760
14. Elisabeth Schalk (Elsie) van der Merwe, b12  1697-1745
15. Hendrik Willem van der Merwe  1698-1762 

Notes about Willem Schalk Schalkszoon van der Merwe

a1	Van der Merwe,Willem Schalk *Nederland 1643 †12.07.1716 : volgens resolusie van die Politieke Raad afkomstig van Broek; volgens register Kaapse gemeente, van Oud-Beyerland naby Rotterdam; 1661.04.26 aankoms in Tafelbaai met die skip ``Dordrecht'', as haakbusskutter, teen agt gulde per maand. Hy was aanvanklik in diens van die Companje se baas-tuinier Hendrik Boom; 1661.05.05 ontvang hy Vryburgerskap, en hy was blykbaar 'n goeie boer want hy is geloof ``voor bequaemheyt als landbouwer''. In die Resolusies van de Politieke Raad was vermeld dat hy boulandt heeft gearbeijt; 1663 tree hy weer in diens van die H.O.I.K. as adelborst belas met landbou; 1668 drie weke voor sy huwelik met Elsje Cloete is hy weens smokkel met die Hottentotte aangekla deur die Bewindhebbers.
×	buite eg met ?,? : Slavin van Simon van der Stel wat in 1686 vrygestel is Attestasie 1664 in C 326 pp 478- 9 C.O. pp 6 en 27
×2	09.09.1668 Kaapstad met Cloete, Elsje *Duitsland =St. Vitus Catholic church in Oedt 28.02.1655 : aankoms saam met haar moeder en broer in 1659; vertrek met attestaat na Stellenbosch ongeveer 1716 en op 9.11.1725 weer lidmaat in Paarl. Sy is bekend as Elsje Jacobs - m.a.w. d.v. Jacob Cloete. In 1678 het sy vir die Khoikhoi Quisa en sy medegevangenes van voedsel en drank voorsien, al het sy geweet dat hulle ontsnap het {d.v. Cloete,Jacob *1630 & Raderootjes(Raderotjes/Raedegortz),Sophia (Fytje) *1630}

Hul het 14 kinders.

Therefore the first Van Der Merwe to South Africa was Willem Schalk Van Der Merwe and he arrived in 1660 aboard the ship “Dordrecht” on which he was an arquebusier. He became a citizen of the Cape on 5 May1661. He was interested in agriculture and was appointed in 1663 as “adelborst” in control of the Cape-Dutch East Indian agricultural holdings. Eventually, after he resigned this position he became the owner of the wine farm “Kronendal”, which still exists today. The original Cape-Dutch homestead still stands near the town of “Hout Bay”. It lies close to the 2nd most southern tip of Africa and approximately 30 minutes driving time south of Cape Town. The farm “de Hoop” in Klein Drakenstein, which was given to his son Schalk Willem, in 1692, was thus the second farm in the Van der Merwe family. Willem got married to Elsje Cloete, daughter of Jacob and Fytje Cloete, both from Cologne, Germany. Willem and Elsje got married on 9 September 1668 and they had 13 children. Elsie was born in Europe and came to the Cape with her parents and brother, Gerrit. Willem was arrested three weeks before his wedding because he bought cattle from the indigenous Koi - Koi people, which was unlawful at the time. He was sentenced to corporal punishment which was suspended. In addition he had to pay a fine of approximately 50 dollars.

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

 

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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)

De Wet file: According to "Resolusie van die Politieke Raad" from Broek, according to register of the Cape congregation, from "Oud-Beyerland" near Rotterdam. He was a son of Schalk van der Merwe farmer in "Oud-Beyerland" and a grandson of Willem van der Merwe from whom the current van der Merwes in the Netherlands are descendant. Departed for Cape Town as "haakbusskutter" on the ship "Dordrecht" at eight "gulde" per month, arriving in Table Bay on the 26th April, 1661. He was initially in service of the Companje's master gardener Hendrik Boom. Burger 5.5.1661, and he was apparently a good farmer because he was praised "voor bequaemheyt als landbouwer" [ability as farmer]. It was mentioned in the Resolutions of the Political Council that he "boulandt heeft gearbeijt" [has worked building land]. In 1663 he again entered service with the H.O.I.K. as midshipman responsible for agriculture. Three weeks before his marriage to Elsje Cloete, he was accused by the rulers of smuggling with the "Hottentotte". He and his father-in-law Jacob Cloete apparently continued smuggling because he was a prisoner on Robben Island due to smuggling and violence connected thereto. In January 1673 his house and grain crop was destroyed by fire. On the 23rd March 1677 he received permission from the Kompanje to again work land together with Pieter van der Westhuizen, this time in "Houtbaai" [Wood Bay], this is the farm Kronendal of which the Cape Dutch farmhouse still exists. This agreement was cancelled and the farm was allocated to him as free property. In 1677 he reaped 60 "mud" grain. On the 7th September 1692 an "erfbrief" [inheritance letter] was issued to him for the farm Kunnenberg, in this "erfbrief" described as "de Kinnenborgh". The farm was measured by land surveyor Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland with a border of 60 "roede" on the Bergrivier and 600 "roede" in the direction of "Babilonstoring" [Tower of Babylon]. His neighbours were Jacobus van der Heiden on "Overveen" and Marten van Staden on "Bloemendal". According to the "erfbrief" the land was already allocated to him in 1687. This statement sounds suspicious, because the 1687- allocations were personally measured by landdros Johannes Mulder of Stellenbosch and Oldenland's measurements started with the 1689 allocations. The farm De Hoop in "Klein Drakenstein" was allocated to Willem's son Schalk Willem van der Merwe in 1692. This was the second farm and not the first to be allocated in South Africa to a van der Merwe. He was the father of 13 children and also the father of an illegitimate daughter, Maria Schalks who married the progenitor Paulus Heyns from Leipzig. Maria's mother was a female slave of Governor Simon van der Stel.

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