Hanekom, Brink, Deacon

From Richard Ball ­http­://­www­.­ballfamilyrecords­.­co­.­uk­/­kfp­/­I832­.­html­ There is a contradiciton in the surviving documentary records. There is a baptism for Adrianus, son of Arij van Wijk and Cornelia Helmes in the Stellebosch baptismal register, dated 25 December 1701, and also a reference in the will that Cornelia Helmes drew up in 1720 with her last husband, which lists her children thus: Rolof, Aletta, Willem, Sara, Adriaan, Maria, Catarina and Hester VanWijk. This agrees with with the baptismal evidence. Unfortunately the only reference to him which gives his age is one in the will of his father and mother dated 1713, which reads thus: Roelof aged 18, Aletta 17, Willem 16, Sara 15, Maria 9, Adrianus 8, Catrina 3, and Hester 6 months, which conflicts with the two other references, one earlier and one later than this latter one. In this list of 1713, some of the childrens ages are spot on with their dates of baptism, but Sara and Adriaans would appear to be wrong. I have taken the baptism and the later reference as indicating that there was only one child Adriaan and that he was born c. 1701. Details of his family from the Deceased Estate Accounts of Willem van Wijk d'oude, 1771-72 and those of Sara Fourie also dated 1771-72.

From Richard Ball http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/kfp/I178.html Details of this family from the Deceased Estate Accounts of Willem van Wijk d'oude, 1771-72 and her own Estate Accounts of 1744. There is no baptism extant for her. The only indication of when she was born are the two lists of her children drawn up by Cornelia Helmes in her wills of 1713 and 1720. In the earlier the age of Maria is given as 9, which would suggest she was born around 1704 which is what I have used here. On this list, however, the ages of the sister listed before her and the brother after, would seem to be wrong (although those of the other children agree with their dates of baptism) we can only hope that her age was listed correctly.