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From: Mansell Upham <>
Subject: ANNA VAN WYK
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:57:59 +0000


Greetings all:

Thank you, Barend Venter, so much for the information you have supplied. Do
you have any ideas about Anna van Wyk's siblings? In 1700 Willem & his wife
- also found as 'Catarina Wijkers' - were the parents of 2 sons and 2
daughters. I suspect that they had at least 5 children in total and that
Willem also fathered 2 more by a Company slave woman.

I am not too certain about Anna / Johanna van Wyk first being married to
Gerrit Willems and whether she had any children by him. There is
documentary evidence that Gerrit Willemse's wife Machteld had been
appropriated by the Free Black Isaak Pietersz who had moved in with Gerrit's
wife - Gerrit being moved out and dragged by the hair - his replacement
admitted later to having fathered two very dark children. Gerrit Willemse
was given to vagabonding thereafter...I suspect that these two children were
Gerrit and Susanna...

The whole matter is complicated by the fact that there was a contemporaneous
Free Black woman who went by the name of Jannetje van Wyk and like the
Lijsbeth van Wyk that Margaret Cairns has written about, whe also mothered
children by different fathers.

I also wonder whether Willem van Wyk's wife was Cape-born...

Any thoughts out there?

Ta-very-much
MANSELL UPHAM

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