Schalk Willemse van der Merwe^[1]

1673 - Abt 1740  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Schalk Willemse van der Merwe
  Christening	13 Aug 1673  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1740  [3]
  Person ID	I8226	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Willem Schalksz(oon) van der Merwe,   b. Abt 1640, Broeck,,,Netherlands d. 12 Jul 1716 (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Elsje Cloete,   c. 28 Feb 1655, Oedt,,,Rheinland,Preussen,Germany
  Marriage	9 Sep 1668  [1, 4]
  Family ID	F302712698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Prévot,   b. 18 Feb 1681, Marck,,,,,France d. Bef 10 Oct 1740 (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	26 Feb 1696	Cape Town,,South Africa   [1, 3]
  	de Villiers and Pama gives the wedding date as June 1680. THis cannot be correct due to the age of the bridegroom (his baptism in 1673 is listed in the church baptismal register) and the fact that the bride only arrived at the Cape in 1680. Delia Robertson (The First Fifty Years Project http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/) gives the date of marriage as February 26, 1696, and I have used this date. This is also consistent with the birth date of the first child. Delia Robertson cites as the source for the date: Pieter Coertzen, The Huguenots of South Africa 1688-1988 (28 Wale Street, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Limited, 1988), p. 167.
  Children	1. Anna van der Merwe,   c. 20 May 1704   2. Carel van der Merwe,   c. 2 Sep 1725   3. Carel van der Merwe,   c. 30 Dec 1698   4. David van der Merwe,   c. 2 Oct 1707   5. Elisabeth van der Merwe,   c. 25 Aug 1697   6. Gerrit van der Merwe,   c. 22 Nov 1716   7. Hendrik Willem van der Merwe,   c. 17 Aug 1698   8. Hendrik van der Merwe,   c. 28 Oct 1714, Drakenstein,Cape,South Africa., d. Bef 21 Sep 1762 (Age ~ 47 years)   9. Izaak van der Merwe,   c. 27 Sep 1711, Stellenbosch,   10. Jacobus van der Merwe,   c. 12 Feb 1699, Drakenstein,Cape,South Africa., d. 31 Oct 1769, Tulbagh,Cape,South Africa., (Age ~ 70 years)   11. Maria van der Merwe,   c. 29 Apr 1703   12. Martha van der Merwe,   c. 14 May 1713   13. Petronella van der Merwe,   c. 19 May 1720   14. Pieter van der Merwe,   c. 7 Jun 1709   15. Roelof van der Merwe,   c. 24 Jul 1718   16. Sophia van der Merwe,   c. 18 Apr 1706   17. Willem van der Merwe,   c. 23 Oct 1701
  Family ID	F302712696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2022

  
  

• Notes

  In the baptismal register for 13 August 1673 is listed "«i»Een soontje van Willem Schalch en Elsje sijn huysvr' wert genaamt Schalch«/i»" Acording to French Refugees at the Cape, he and his wife Anna Prevot lived on their farm Wittenberg at Paarl. They left many descendants. He is listed with his wife in the Cape Muster Roll for 1702 as "«i»Schalk Willemse & Anna Pruvort 4 k«/i»" In the 1731 report of Governor de la Fonteine, he is listed together with his wife and five children in the Drakenstein district (presumably their farm «i»Wittenberg«/i») with the remark "«i»Is Landbouwer, Niet Sonder Schulden«/i»" (a farmer, not without debts) He is listed in the Stellenbosch District with his wife in the 1733 Muster Roll.

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] de Villiers, C.C., revised by Pama, C., Genealogies of Old South African Families, (Published A.A Balkema, Cape Town, 1981 ISBN 0-86961-136-4), Entry for van der Merwe (Reliability: 2). [S1401] South Africa, Cape Province, Cape Town, Church Records, (familysearch.org), 13 Aug 1673 Baptism Schalk Willemsz van der Merwe (Reliability: 3). [S64] Robertson, Delia, First Fifty Years, (http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/). [S1401] South Africa, Cape Province, Cape Town, Church Records, (familysearch.org), 1668 Marriage Willem Schalksz van der Merwe and Elsje Cloete (unindexed) (Reliability: 3).