A van Wyk is made veldwagmeester on the Olifants River
27 October 1786 · regional · Die suidelike Olifantsrivier (De Rust-Uniondale)
The Swellendam heemraad appointed Louis van Wyk de jonge veldwagmeester aan de Olifantsrivier, the local officer for the river's farmers; the same year he left Oude Muragie. [SRC-651, citing the heemraad minutes; TO VERIFY]
Who is on record here
Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.
Sources
- 'Tydgenote van Jan Willem Barkhuysen: Louis van Wyk *1726', Familiejoernaal blog, 25 October 2013 - the van Wyks in the Cango and on the Olifants River, 1760-1793 Blog post of 25 October 2013. Footnote [1]: A. Appel, 'Die distrik Oudtshoorn tot die tagtigerjare van die 19de eeu: 'n sosio-ekonomiese studie', pp. 10 and 324; RLR 16 p. 109. Further footnotes cite the Swellendam heemraad minutes (27 October 1786; 25 October 1791) and the Swellendam opgaafrol of 1793.