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Persoonlijke gegevens Abraham van WYK 

• Hij is geboren op 28 december 1842 in Midden Roggeveld, Cape, South Africa.
• Hij is gedoopt op 2 juli 1843 in On the farm Matjeskloof, Roggeveld, Calvinia district.
• Bevestiging van kerklidmaatschap op 25 maart 1860 in Calvinia, Northern Cape.
• Beroep: tussen 1866 en 1917 A trekboer and quitrent farmer in Northern Cape.
• (Reference Number) : 32.
• (Biographical) : This seems to confirm AvW *1842 being an only child, and that his father died when AvW *1842 was about two years old..
• (Personality and Interests) : Was known to his family as "Afduim", having lost his one thumb..
• Hij is overleden op 21 december 1917 in In '..his dwelling Schuinskraal..', Garies, Cape, South Africa, hij was toen 74 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Garies town, or somewhere in its district.
• Testament op 23 september 1911 naar Kakamas, Northern Cape.
• Een kind van Abraham van WYK en Magdalena LOUW

Gezin van Abraham van WYK

Hij is getrouwd met Loudina Hendrika Jacoba (Louwtjie) LOUW.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 7 juni 1866 te DRC marriages register for Calvinia 'Rol 36' (1848-1875) entry #410, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.

Spouse: Gloudina Hendrika Jacoba van Wyk (born Louw), b5c3d3e1f8g9

Kind(eren):

1. Magdalena Jacoba Petronella (Lenie) van WYK  1869-????
2. Anna Gloudina van WYK  1871-1931 
3. Abraham van WYK  1873-1958 
4. Loudina Hendrika Jacoba van WYK  1875-????
5. Jacobus Adriaan van WYK  1877-1935
6. Elgonda Eretzima van WYK  1879-????
7. Jacobus Hendrik van Wyk  1881-1916
8. Stanley van WYK  1882-????
9. Daniel van WYK  1884-????
10. Wouter Jacobus van WYK  1885-???? 
11. Louwdina Hendrika Jacoba van WYK  1887-1979 
12. Gerrida Margrietha van WYK  1892-1984 

Notities over Abraham van WYK

Abraham's mother, Magdalena Jacoba Petronela LOUW (*25/6/1822), was within a year of the death of his father, Abraham VAN WYK (*2/9/1814), remarried to a much older man, (yet another) Abraham VAN WYK (*18/9/1800). The wording on her death notice, MOOC 6/9/121 p.3975 filed on 6/12/1867, tells us she left four children, the first of whom was listed as 'Abraham van Wijk, meerderjarig (voorkind)'. This second marriage to Abraham VAN WYK (*18/9/1800), who was a widower at the time with four children from an earlier marriage (to Anna Josina VAN WYK (~Tulbagh 22/1/1805), produced a further three children between 1846 and 1852. The young Abraham VAN WYK (*1842) was therefore squashed in with seven half- and step-brothers and -sisters, and it would seem that he was raised within the large and very extended 'Ramskop Van Wyk' environment. In 1856 his stepfather was presented with a bible in which was inscribed 'Van sy leraar en vriend...'. The donor was Calvinia's DRC dominee of the time, Ds. Nicolaas Jacobus Hofmeijr (sic, as signed under his inscription and date he had added). This was most probably presented to Abraham (*28/12/1842), who later passed it on to his son Abraham (*17/11/1873), in whose family it became the family bible, and passed on to descendant Abraham's down the descendants' line. Ds Hofmeijr had trained at Utrecht and was called to the Hantam parish in 1851, leaving that congregation three years later to become the first lecturer at the DRC's Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch, then professor there. He died in 1932. A form (filled out but unsigned) reflecting information about Abraham van Wyk (*17/12/1973) is in my possession. Items of information of significance were the identity of his father, Abraham van Wyk (*28/12/1842), confirms that the latter was an only child, and '..vader oorlede toe hy 2 jaar oud was..', and his grandfather, Abraham van Wyk, 'geb. omtrent 1812'.

 

His father's death notice MOOC 8068 filed on 2 October 1845 lists one surviving child only, a son, 'Abraham, onmondig'. This was one of two entries (the other being his mother's death notice MOOC 6/9/121) that resolved for me the confusion among my first and second cousins about our ancestry: The 1999 edition of 'SAG', Vol 5 (L-M), f14 on p.314, has his mother's first husband down as 'NN', while her second marriage quite correctly (xx Calnwilliam 7/4/1846) was entered as being to Abraham VAN WYK '(J.A-sn) wew.' It might have been an error produced by the compilers (understandable but mistaken) assumption at the time that there simply couldn't have been two Abraham VAN WYKs married to M J P LOUW in succession. There were! Further confusion existed: The Haese family register (p.3 No. 6) has an Abraham Johannes VAN WYK down as '1842 - 21.12.1917' which is, I believe, wrong. The register does however confirm what is found in the death notice of Abraham VAN WYK (*1800); the latter had eight children, albeit by two wives. His death notice has an Abraham Johannes listed fifth in line, without a date of birth, whereas in the Haese family register he is down as sixth. I believe the Abraham Johannes to which the Haese register refers was the same person as is found listed in another source document, the N S Louw family tree, where the name 'Abraham van Kans' (sic) appears as one of the five children born to Abraham VAN WYK (*1800) of Ramskop and his first wife, Anna Jocina (sic) LOUW. The conclusion I've drawn is that a 'voorkind', Abraham VAN WYK (*27/12/1842), was brought into his house when Abraham VAN WYK (*1800) married his second wife, M J P LOUW (*25/6/1822), because the only mention of this child is found in the death notice of the latter, his mother.

 

His wife signed the death notice as surviving spouse at Garies on 1/2/1918 and it was filed a week later. His age at death was given as 74 years 11 months. A family source document (Hilda VAN WYK *1901) suggests he died on 22/12/1917.

 

His father was listed in the Clanwilliam congregation's baptismal register as 'Abraham VAN WYK, G.z.' and the mother as 'Magdalena Jacoba Petronella LOUW', the event having taken place '..ter plaatze Matjeskloof, Onder Roggeveld'. Witnesses included Willem VISAGIE, Margareta (sic) Willemina (sic) LOUW, Johannes Hendrik Jacobus VLOK and Johanna Elisabeth LOUW. The farm Matjeskloof is situated a few km. north of Rooiwal, the birthplace and childhood home of his bride-to-be, L H J 'Louwtjie' LOUW (*14/7/1850).

 

In the register of the Dutch Reformed Church confirmations he is listed as 'Abram van Wijk - Abr.z'.

 

After his marriage and the birth of his first two children he moved from Ramskop into the Garies district, but after the birth there of their thrid, the eldest son Abraham, he continued trek farming in both districts before, in about 1876, moving off north-east through the 'Voor-Boesmanland' towards Bushmanland proper. After farming quitrent properties west of Kenhardt for a number of years the family crossed the Orange River into southern Namibia to continue their trek farming practice on land close to its current border with Botswana. In the mid-1890's he returned to the Cape Colony to lease-hold farming on T'caimoep, 'Kaimoep' on today's maps, in the Kenhardt district. It was a property of which the mineral rights were later to be reserved in favour of his son, Abraham. After the marriage of the latter to Hillie, the daughter of Flip van der Merwe of Valschvlei, north of Kenhardt, he stayed on in that district for a few years, acquiring a couple of erven in the village of Marydale to the east. His son Abraham had meanwhile established his independence from the family. When he became interested in the military and in irrigation farming at Kakamas his father Abraham returned in about 1912 with some of his children to Garies, 'Genisdal' as the town was still known, to settle on the farm Schuinskraal near the town. This farm had in 1892 become the property of his daughter Elgonda's husband, James Lewis BURKE, and it was there that Abraham and Loudina lived in retirement until his death in 1917. The inventory to his estate included three dry erven, no's 225, 91 and 92 in Marydale and some movable property and livestock (see under 'Will'). Schuinskraal is listed in his death notice as the place on which he died, described as 'his dwelling'. There's however no record of his ever having owned the farm, which is probably the one situated about 5 km N-W of Garies, just off the road to Kamieskroon. It is possible that his daughter Elgonda's husband, James Lewis BURKE, had built a house on the property for him to retire to upon his return to Garies in about 1912 after a trekboer existence in the northern Cape. Death notice entries support this, as do two other sources : (A) The State Archives' quitrent loan register record that a one-half share of the property Mollsvallei, alias Schuinskraal, 7053 morgen 194 roods (about 6040 hectares) in extent, had been transferred from a certain J J Dreyer to James L Burke on 9/6/1892 (the Deeds Office records, see below, presents this information differently). A smaller portion, 'Ptn A', 1243 morgen 90 roods (about 1065 hectares) of this was transferred to Hendrik Visser on 10/6/1908. In terms of grant No. 15 of 1935, Annexe Schuinskraal, four kilometers SW of the town of Garies, was transferred to a 'J L Burke'. (B) According to Deeds Office records, Schuinskraal was made the subject of an original grant to Hermanus Albertus Engelbrecht on 15/2/1844 and on 20/1/1852 it was transferred to Petrus A Rossouw. On 17/12/1907 James Lewis Burke took transfer of Remainder of Skuinskraal, 8059 mg 155 sq. rds (appr. 6900 ha) in extent as described in the amended title deed after a probable re-survey. A subdivision, appr. 1065 ha in size and described as Portion A, was sold to Hendrik Gideon Visser a few months later (this is born out in 'A' above) but Burke remained the owner of the Remainder, and of other properties such as the smallish (160 ha.) Skuinskraal Annexe close to Garies, until 7/5/1935.

 

It was a joint will signed by the couple in Kakamas in 1911. As executrix and administrator of the estate when he died six years later his surviving spouse, Loudina, inherited it. It was appraised at £352 sterling, the inventory including three dry erven, no's 225, 91 and 92 in Marydale, valued at £330, furniture at £10 and 30 goats sold for £12.

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