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Hilletje Susanna (Van de Westhuijsen) van Wyk (1787 - 1828)

Born in Swartland, Cabo de Goede Hoop
Died at age 40 in Worcester, Cape Colony
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Table Bay, South Africa (1762)
Helletje Susanna (Van de Westhuijsen) van Wyk was part of the settlement of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Biography

Name

  • Hilletje Susanna Maria van Wyk (van der Westhuizen)

Birth

Baptism

  • Date: 11 September 1788[2][1][3]
  • Place: Swartland, Cape [Colony][1] / Cabo de Goede Hoop [South Africa][3]
    • Name: Hilletje Susanna[3]
    • Father: Nieclaas Van de Westhuijsen[3]
    • Mother: Chrisstina Krieger[3]
    • Witnesses: Gert Visser (de jonge), Martha Van Wijk, Bothe Bothes, Susanna Margrietha Keulder[3]
    • Additional note: gebooren de 29 Desem:[3]

Death

  • Date:: circa 1828 (35-44) / 15 Dec 1839[4] / 6 Jun 1828[5]

Family

  • Daughter of Nicolaas van der Westhuizen & Christina Joachimina Hermanusina van der Westhuizen
  • Wife of Abraham van Wyk
  • Mother of :
    • Christina Francina van Wyk
    • Anna van Wyk
    • Hilletjie Maria Theron
    • Gerrit van Wyk
    • Maria Johanna Vlok
    • Johanna Jacomina Vermeulen
    • Magdalena Alberta Jordaan
    • Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk
  • Sister of :
    • Johannes van der Westhuizen
    • Christina Francina van Wyk
    • Jacob van der Westhuizen
    • Nicolaas Georg van der Westhuizen
    • Christiaan van der Westhuizen
    • Anna Maria van der Westhuizen
    • Johanna Jacomina van der Westhuizen;
    • Nicolaas van der Westhuizen
    • Carel van der Westhuizen
    • Petrus van der Westhuizen
    • Catharina Elizabeth van der Westhuizen
    • Franciscus Hendricus van der Westhuizen,

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Baptism: "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994", database with images, citing Digital film/folder number: 008147789_002_M969-TTJ; Image number: 44; Record number: 0, (FamilySearch Record: 6KBH-82JR : accessed 21 May 2025) FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSKD-LQQ7-9, Hillitje Susanna Van De Westhingsen baptism on 11 Sep 1788 (born 29 Dec) in Swartland, Cape Colony. Added by Riël Smit on 2025-05-21.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Source will be added by Susan (Coetsee) de Bruyn by 9 Oct 2017.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Baptism Register: Parish registers for the Dutch Reformed Church at Swartland, Cape Province: South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994
    Catalog: Parish registers for the Dutch Reformed Church at Swartland, Cape Province, Baptisms 1751-1824
    > image 169 of 623
    FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSKD-LQQ7-9 (accessed 17 January 2026). by André Laubscher
  4. Added by Elizma Keuler on 16 January 2020.
  5. Death: South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990, database with images, citing Digital film/folder number: 007810151_003_M9DB-7CF; Image number: 44; Record number: 27, (FamilySearch Record: QPZF-2TFT : accessed 21 May 2025) FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSSQ-MQWC-X, Hilletje Van Der Westhuizen probate in 1828 in Cape Colony. Died 6 Jun 1828 in Worcester, Cape Colony. Added by Riël Smit on 2025-05-21.
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Morgenthal-1
Johan Morgenthal
Note the marriage of Abraham van Wyk and Helletje van der Westhuysen in the NGK Cape Town Marriage record of 2 Dec 1792:

"Abraham van Wyk van Cabo de Goede Hoop, Burger aan Stellenbosch, Jong man, met Helletje van der Westhuysen van Cabo voornoemd, jonge dogter"

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFQ-SRXJ?cat=993508

posted on Van der Westhuizen-927 (merged) by Johan Morgenthal

Van der Westhuizen-927 and Van der Westhuizen-1511 appear to represent the same person because: Van der Westhuizen - 927 is more correct than mine - please merge

posted on Van der Westhuizen-1511 (merged) by Elizma (van den Berg) Keuler



War of 1812 Connection Checkers: Helletje Susanna is 17 degrees from Francis Key, 19 degrees from Caleb Bentley, 16 degrees from Thomas Brisbane VIth of Brisbane, 20 degrees from Francis Dade, 19 degrees from William Harrison, 20 degrees from Andrew Jackson, 18 degrees from Dolley Madison, 18 degrees from Oliver Perry, 22 degrees from Mary Pickersgill, 17 degrees from Laura Secord, 19 degrees from John Stricker and 14 degrees from Arthur Wakefield

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