Hanekom, Brink, Deacon

from Richard Ball; http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/kfp/I225.html<br>
He first appears at the Cape as a Company servant, working in the Company's Garden in 1672. By 1678 he was a free burger, working in partnership with Gerrit Teunisz and later with Hans Erntrout.<br>
Two children by his first wife are recorded in the baptismal registers of the Cape Town congregation; Arie and Jannetie. The inventory taken after the death of his first wife, dated the 10th March 1695, notes that she left two minor children. These are named in the Weeskamer record dated 2 September 1712 as Arij and Gerrit van Wijk, so presumably Jannetie had died before 1695.<br>
The children born of his second marriage are also listed in the 1712 Weeskamer note mentioned above, as Maria, Anna and Willem van Wijk.<br>
For his wives and children see my notes on Trijntje Harmensz, his second wife, and for a general discussion of the early Van Wijks see my notes.

from Richard Ball; http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/kfp/I229.html
On 31st March 1702 she stated before the Weesmeesters that, due to the manifold sicknesses that had beset her late husband the land was in a poor state as well as in debt; she asked to be allowed time, in which she would do her best to find the money to pay the paternal inheritance belonging to the two children from her late husband's first marriage to Trijntje Hillebrands.<br>
A note of 1712 from the same document gives the names of her three children by Willem van Wijk.<br>
The reference to this document was provided from his research by Mansell Upham, to whom I am most grateful for this vital information.
(Cape Archives, MOOC 5/1, Weesmeesteren: Extracten 1699 enz., p.7)