Weijnant Hendrik Gildenhúijs (bef. 1801 - 1873)

Wynand Hendrik Gildenhúijs was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony. Join: Cape of Good Hope - Kaap de Goede Hoop (1652-1806) Project Discuss: dutch_cape_colony

Biography

Name

• Weijnant Hendrik Gildenhúijs ^{[1] [2]}

Birth

• Event date: before 15 Nov 1801 ^[1]
• Event Place: Blom Fontein, Swellendam, Cape of Good Hope Colony ^{[1] [2]}
• Father's Name: Hendrik Gildenhúijs ^{[1] [2]}
• Mother's Name: Margritha Maria Wessels ^[1] Unknown ^[2]

Baptism

• Baptism Date 15 Nov 1801
• Place Swellendam ^[1]

• Het Kind: Weijnant Hendrik
• Oúders: Hendrik Gildenhúijs, Margritha Maria Wessels
• Getúygen Weijnant Wessels, Súsanna Johanna Uijs, Johannes Albertús Gildenhúijs, Anna Leroe, Christoffel Paúlsen, Helena Pieterze, Hendk. Wessels, Catharina Elizabeth Moolman

Death

• Death Notice of Wynand Hendrik Geldenhuys ^[2]
• Age 72y 5m ^[2] on 24 Mar 1873 at Melkhoutkraal, Riversdale ^[2]
• Bitrhplace Blom Fontein, Swellendam ^[2]
• Parents Hendrik Geldenhuys and NN ^[2]
• Married - but wife's name not mentioned
• Children
• Elias Johannes ^[2]
• Margaretha Maria m. Jan Roodman ^[2]
• Elsabe Cornelia m. Lourens Roodman ^[2]
• Hendrik Johannes ^[2]
• Abraham Johannes ^[2]

Family

• Wynand Hendrik Geldenhuys 1801–1873
• Elsabe Cornelia Matthee 1801–Deceased
• Marriage 5 December 1824 Swellendam, Cape Colony, South Africa
• Children (12)
• Elizabeth Maria Geldenhuys 1826–Deceased
• Hendrik Geldenhuys 1827–Deceased
• Margaretha Maria Geldenhuys 1829–Deceased
• Elias Jacobus Geldenhuys 1832–1914
• Elias Johannes Geldenhuys 1833–Deceased
• Elsabe Cornelia Gertruida Anna Geldenhuys 1835–Deceased
• Maria Magdalena Susanna Gildenhuijs 1836–Deceased
• Wynand Hendrik Johannes Geldenhuys 1836–Deceased
• Sophia Margaretha Geldenhuys 1838–Deceased
• Hendrik Johannes Geldenhuys 1840–1913
• Johanna Cornelia Geldenhuys 1843–Deceased
• Abraham Johannes Geldenhuys 1845–Deceased

• Wynand Hendrik Geldenhuys 1801–1873
• Carolina Willemina Erwee 1805–Deceased
• Children (0)

• Parents
• Hendrik Geldenhuys 1774–1863
• Margaretha Maria Wessels 1782–1801 ^[3]

SAG

• b6c3 Hendrik Gildenhùys-17 ≈ 12.7.1717 x 27.7.1738 Cornelia Swart-101 xx 26.7.1750 Sara Johanna SWART † 6.8.1770
  • b6c3d5 Hendrik Gildenhuysen-25 ≈ 13.12.1744 x 22.8.1773 Geertruyda Grobbelaar-162 ≈ 27.1.1754 † 17.4.1837 d.v. Petrus Grobbelaar en Susanna Maria Human xx 18.1.1801 Margaretha Maria Wessels-836 First spouse still alive in 1837?
    • b6c3d5e10 Wynand Hendrik Geldenhuys-347 ≈ 15.11.1801 † 24.3.1873 x Swellendam 5.12.1824 Elsabe Cornelia Matthee-675 * ca. 1804 d.v. Elias Jacobus Matthee en Maria Elizabeth Bester
      • b6c3d5e10f4 Elias Jacobus * 1.7.1832 ≈ Caledon 3.2.1833 † ca. 1881^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994 ", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6P5Q-HWD4 : Thu Sep 26 20:00:22 UTC 2024), Entry for Weÿnant Hendrik Gildenhuijs and Hendrik Gildenhuÿs, 15 Nov 1801. Added on 28 Mar 2025 by Ian McArthur
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13} "South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990", , FamilySearch Death notice Wynand Hendrik Geldenhuys 24 Mar 1873: Sun Mar 10 00:37:19 UTC 2024), Entry for Wynand Hendrik Geldenhuys, from 1873 to 1874. Added on 28 Mar 2025 by Ian McArthur
3. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/G4L9-DP8
4. ↑ South African Family Register, 1918. Researched and added 6 Jan 2026 by Desireé Erasmus