GENEALOGY
OF THE
KLERCK
FAMILY
compiled by
Alexander Pierre Faure (mother born Marguerita Mary (Liefie) Klerck)(1946-)
and
Michael von Petersom Klerck (1955-)
first edition
April 1998
(copyright 1998)
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GENEALOGY OF THE KLERCK FAMILY
compiled by
Alexander Pierre Faure (mother born Klerck) (1946-)
and
Michael von Petersom Klerck (1955-)
CONTENTS
Dutch ancestors of the Klercks of South Africa (from ‘Genealogia Klerckiania’)
Ancestors of the Klercks of South Africa (from ‘Nederland’s Adelboek’)
The Klercks of South Africa
Klerck branches for which a ‘slot’ has not yet been found
Klerck family history according to Pama
Pen sketches of the Klercks of South Africa
Notes to the above
Sources
World wide web site
Appendices
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1. DUTCH ANCESTORS OF THE KLERCKS OF SOUTH AFRICA
(ACCORDING TO SOURCE 1 - ‘GENEALOGIA KLERCKIANIA’)
D Klerck (first name in doc - only initial given) (or is this the name of the author - Dirck 1738 ?)
b1 Gerard ?-? *Alyt van Wyck
c1 Cornelis ?-? *de Kemp
d1 Gerard ?-? *Aletta van Beeck (or Beach) (11) *Frederika Vonck van Lynden (3)
e1 Aletta ?-?]
e2 Cornelis ?-? *Johanna Smuijsers
e1 Dirk Willem ?-4.8.1695]
e2 Johanna Huberta *Elardus Magnus Roth
e3 Frederick 1635-27.11.1703 *Anna Vonck van Lynden]
e4 Christina *Johan Keyser
e5 Herman ?-?]
e6 Anthony (or Antonie) ?-?]
e7 Gert Antonie?-?]
e8 Antonie ?-?]
e9 Albert ?-?]
e10 Martha Aletta ?-?]
e11 Adriaan ?-?]
e12 Hendrik 1650-? * Maria Dorothea de Roth
f1 Gerrit Frederik 28.19.1876-?]
f2 Adelgonda Maria 23.9.1678-23.5.1704]
f3 Cornelis Hermanus 31.5.1680-?]
f4 Anna Aletta 14.12.1681-1755]
f5 Christina Margarita 22.7.1683-1754 *Gerard van Zwoll]
f6 Rynholt Anthony 25.10.1684-?]
f7 Martha Maria 24.11.1686-5.3.1775]
f8 Susannah Dorothea 19.6.1688-?]
f9 Frederick 1690-?]
f10 Jeronimus 3.12.1691-1743 *Anna Theresia Wortel
g1 Maria Christina 30.3.1734-26.12.1807 *Jan Hendrick Haentiens
g2 Johanna Maria 26.6.1736-25.1.1739]
g3 Dirck 11.9.1738-? *Willemina Johanna Menthen
h1 Willem Jan 29.8.1766-? *Aletta Wilhelmina Deneys (to Cape in 1793)
h2 Albertina Huijghens 12.8.1768-18.3.1858 *Josephus Emanuel van den Broeck
h3 Anna Theresia Antonia 29.9.1770-9.3.1771]
h4 Maria Angelica 18.3.1772-?
h5 Rynhold Anthony 28.4.1774-? *Isabella Jacoba van Citters
i1 Wilhelmina Johanna Menthen 24.10.1818-27.12.48 *Baron Rengers
i2 Aarnout 2.4.1820-? *van der Heim *van der Heim *van Hogendorp
j1 Maria Elizabeth Jacoba 1855-1859
i3 Pieter Casper 19.12.1822-?.5.1849]
i4 Willem Jan Gerhard 13.2.1825-1884 * Cornelia Maria des Fombe]
i5 Albert Rijnhold Jacob 1.5.1829-? (no wife or offspring mentioned)
i6 Anna Sara Jacoba 29.11.1837-?
h6 Dirk 10.5.1776-?
h7 Dorothea Aletta 25.4.1778-? * Hendrik Jan Theesing
h8 Nicolaas Rudolf 3.11.1785-?
h9 Willemina Johanna 24.2.1783-10.8.1783]
h10 Martha Elizabeth Anna 30.9.1785-22.10.1785]
h12 Willemina Johanna 20.1.1788-?
g4 Anna Aletta 28.8.1740-24.2.1750]
g5 Rijnholt Anthony 16.5.1743-3.1.1795 (no mention of wife or offspring)
f11 Johanna Maria 24.8.1694-?]
f12 Dirck 16.8.1698-4.11.1699] (fell onto nail which pierced head)
f13 Dirck 3.9.1700-18.12.1726]
e13 Dirck (or Diederick) 1656- 5.7.1710 *Elbertina Verschoor (or van Schoor)]
e14 Martha Hillegonda Margaretha 1666-15.8.1720 *Jan Palmers
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d2 Willem ?-? *Aletta van Harn (note: the surname died in this branch)
e1 Allard van Harn 1644-?]
e2 Cornelis ?-?]
e3 Aletta ?-? *Johan Kamerling
e4 Dirkje (female) c1651-14.10.1725 *Gerard van Zwoll]
e5 Anna ?-? *Joost Boonzaijer
e6 Nechtelt ?-? Andries van Schrieck
e7 Elisabeth ?-?]
e8 Maria c1653-12.7.1711]
2. ANCESTORS OF THE KLERCKS OF SOUTH AFRICA (ACCORDING TO
SOURCE 3 - ‘NEDERLAND’S ADELBOEK’)
(Note: all below born Holland)
Cornelis Clerck c1520-before 1585 *Aeltgen Robbert Wolters
b1 Cornelis Cornelisz Clerck ?-? *Adriana van Wijck
c1 Gerrit Clerck (later Klerck) *Aeltgen van Beeck *Frederica Vonck van Lienden
d1 Hendrick 1650-after 1711 *Marie Dorothea Roth
e1 Jeronimus 1691-? *Anna Theresia Wartel
f1 Dirk 11.9.1738-26.7.1807 *Wilhelmina Johanna Menthem
g1 Reinhold Antonie 28.4.1774-2.6.1854 *
h1 Wilhelmina Johanna Menthem 24.10.1818 *Baron Rengers
h2 Aarnout 11.4.1820-11.10.1876 *Maria Antonia van der Heim *Henriette Marie
van der Heim *Marianne Catherine van Hogendorp
i1 Maria Elisabeth Jacoba 12.12.1855-24.6.1859]
h3 Pieter Casper 19.12.1822-19.4.1849]
h4 Guillaume Jean Gerard 13.2.1825-17.1.1884 *Cornelia Maria des Tombe
*Cecile Henriette des Tombe
i1 Reinhold Antonie 3.5.1852-24.11.1918 *Pleasance Rose Grace Bagge
h5 Albert Reinhold (Baron) 1.5.1829-13.2.1894]
h6 Anna Sara Jacoba 20.11.1837-?
The above does not mention Willem Jan (1766-1839), the progenitor of the African Klercks, who was the
youngest son of Dirk (f1), probably because he emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope. The other brothers are
also not mentioned, probably because they never had offspring.
3. THE KLERCKS OF SOUTH AFRICA (SOURCES: FOOTNOTES 1 AND 3)
Willem Jan 20.8.1766-21.5.1839 *Aletta Wilhelmina Denys (see footnote) *Catharina Maria Munnik
(ARRIVED CAPE 1793, possibly on Danish Sailing ship Thetus, assumed because this was the
ship Aletta Denys arrived on from the East – they were married very soon after)
b1 Dirk Jacob Arnold 5.9.1794-7.11.1795]
b2 Johan Rynhold Gerhardus 6.1.1797-? * Susanna Margaretha Moller
c1 Willem Jan Menthem 8.10.1817-16.10.1817]
c2 Willem Jan Menthem 7.1.1819-2.8.1821]
c3 Hendrik Pieter 3.4.1821-22.2.1876]
c4 Willem Jan 13.7.1826-? *Johanna Petronella van Schoor
d1 Anna Tobia ?-very old]
d2 Susanna Margaretha 6.11.1853-15.11.1938 *Petrus Jacobus Bosman
d3 Jan Cornelius ?-? (no info on children)
d4 William George 2.2.1856-11.11.1907 *Rachel Jacoba Petronella de Villiers
e1 Willem Jan 3.5.1881-31.10.1958 *Lily Aarestraup
f1 Helga Theresia 30.1.1909-? *Harris Robert Manning
f2 Son 17.3.1911-young]
f3 Norma 11.11.1913-? General Daniel Hermanus Pienaar
f4 Ella 9.9.1915-2.10.84 *Andries Beyleveld
f5 Willem Jan von Petersom 5.5.1920-4.4.81 *Barbara Ueckermann 11.2.1924
g1 Michael von Petersom 15.9.1955 *Sharon Louw *Jayne Deeks *Marietta van den
Berg 01.04.65
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h1 Cindy Joy 21.9.1979
h2 Maria Kathlene 26.11.1996
h3 Antonie Rynholt von Petersom 18.10.99
e2 Izak Jacob de Villiers 4.8.1883-2.3.1944 *Johanna Christina du Plessis
f1 Johanna Christina 2.7.1915 *Johann Heinrick Sheffer
e3 William George 8.4.1885 *Miss Alexander]
e4 Edmund van Schoor ?-young]
e5 Johanna Petronella 9.1.1891-? *Tobias Smuts
e6 Adele Elise 26.12.1893-? *Johannes Rudolph Buhrmann
d5 Wilhelmina CM 1859-23.6.1945 *Dr TJ Dixon
d6 Rynholdt Antonie Ernest 29.12.1861-8.5.1946 *Margaretha Aletta Naude
e1 Marie Johanna ?-? *KJ Hamman
e2 Johanna Petronella ?-9.1.1920
e3 Sarah Wilhelmina ?-14.8.1937
d7 Maria Gysberta Jacoba 1863-? *Hendrik Abraham Marais *JJ Michau
d8 Sophia Margareta Alletta ?-? *Jan Momsen
d9 Johanna Petronella ?-?
c5 Johan Rynhold Gerhardus 20.4.1829-16.9.1902 *Anna Elizabeth van der Byl Morkel
d1
d2
d3
d4
d5 (JRG married in Stellenbosch, had 10 children and died in Pietermaritzburg)
d6
d7
d8
d9
d10
c6 Wilhelmina Coernelia Johanna 15.10.1831-? *George Peacock Bainbridge
c7 Rynhold Antonio Crozier 30.3.1842-22.6.1893 (died in lunatic asylum) *Mary Sophia Tait
d1 Magdalena Johanna 1870-? *Adv JA Greer
d2 Susan Margaretha 1871-? Charles du Plessis Chiappini
d3 Johan Rynholdt Gerhardus 1873-? *K Botha
e1 Boy ?-young]
e2 Girl ?-young]
e3 Elaine Mary 2.4.1903-? *Evan David Evans
e4 John Rynhold Gerhardus 28.2.1906-5.6.72 *Mary Magdalene Sephton (017-7127380)
f1 John Rynhold Gerhardus 28.3.1959 (unmarried)
f2 Thomas Sephton 18.10.1969 (unmarried)
f3 Tobie Lerm 3.4.1972 *Dorothy Tom (no children yet)
e5 Eric Stephanus 7.2.1908-? *Martha Hendrina Elizabeth de Kock
f1 John Rynhold 29.1.1938 *Monica Louis Jordaan]
f2 Werner Gerhardus 27.8.1940 *Adele Retief
(012-6642261)
g1 Mine ?
g2 Gerhard ?
g3 Lise ?
f3 Eric Stephanus 21.8.1942 *Erne van Rhyn
(Keerboomstrand 04457-9712)
g1 Eric ? *yes
g2 Lindie ? *yes
g3 Wynand ?
g4 Andrew ?
e6 Hudson Henry 6.10.1910-? *Zilla Doreen le Roux
f1 Hudson Henry 31.5.1938
(Rustenberg 0142-950274)
g1 Carol ? *yes
g2 Hudson Henry ? *yes
h1 Shane ? (daughter)
h2 Carla ?
g3 Johan ? *yes (to have child late April)
g4 Tanya ? *yes
f2 Kobus 18.11.1940 *Dorothea Regina Kleynhans
(0142-93173)
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g1 Zetta Regina 23.3.1967
g2 Wouter 12.8.1969
d4 Alexander Morrison 1875-c1955 * Caroline Johanna Carter
e1 Frederick Rynhold c1900-31.7.54 *Violet Tweedale *Iris van Niekerk
f1 Derma ? *Gibbs
e2 Alexander Morrison (Tortie)?-? *Olive Allen *Louise?
f2 Yvonne 19.3.1921 *Percy Little
f2 Richard Alexander 22.7.1922 *Irene Gascoign
(emigrated to Australia)
g1 Patricia c10.1947
(emigrated to Australia)
g2 Dereck ?
(emigrated to Australia)
f2 Shirley Sybil 10.6.1924-c1933]
e3 Charles Edwin (Charlie) 30.10.1902-1971 *Ellen Wilkie
f1 Alexander Morrison John 31.12.1942 *Pamela May Marais
g1 Graeme Charles 17.3.1972
g2 Paul Alexander 14.1.1973
g3 Jeremy James 10.7.1977
g4 Neil Ernest 8.6.1979
f2 Irene 22.10.1945-1973]
e4 John Ludwig (Jackie)14.10.1913-3.1.91 *Mary Patricia Lewis (Pat)
f1 George Anthony 11.3.1944 *Ethne Joyce Galway
g1 Wayne Ashley 19.9.68
g2 Deon Justin 10.5.70 *Johanna Christina Taljard (Tina)
g3 Natalie Andrea 7.3.77
f2 Diane Margretta Percel 30.11.1946 *Carl Louwrens
f3 David Charles 15.2.1952 *Francesca Barret
(lives East London)
g1 Ray Leonard 16.10.1990
e5 William Herbert (Billy) 13.7.1916-11.10.1987 *Elaine Helen Roland-Andrews (Bobs)
f1 Ivan William 15.5.1941 *Wendy Diana Wright
g1 Mandy Lyn 4.12.1967 *Gary Morton Fisher
g2 Gavin Ryan 15.5.1972
f2 Lynne ? *Pearson
e6 Marguerita Mary (Liefie) 26.1.1918 *Johannes Philibert Morkel Faure (AP Faure’s
parents)
d5 Rynholdt Antonio 1879-1879]
d6 George William 1882-? *Anna T Louw
e1 Jan Klerck von Petersom 27.2.1917 *Nora Madeleine Stromwall] (lives Durban)]
d7 Hubert Henry Hull 1886-? *G Korsten
e1 Richard ?-? *Margaret Jane Knipe
f1 Nicolas ? (works for De Beers - mostly at sea)
f2 Patrick ? (works for De Beers - mostly at sea)
f3 Michael ? *a French girl
g1 a son
f4 Gillian ? *
f5 Richard ? *
(emigrated to England)
e2 Anthony Greer 10.1.1930-25.7.1988 *Evelyn Maureen Knipe (lives Camps Bay)
f1 Catherine Margaret 12.10.1955 *Alan Young (lives PE)
f2 Lesley Ann 8.3.1959 *Dr Clive Ward-Able
(emigrated to Canada)
b3 Hester Aletta Arnoldina 14.4.1798-? * Pieter Harmsen
b4 Wilhelmina Albertina Maria 1.7 1799-1848 *Paul Roux]
b5 Son (unnamed) 10.5.1802- ?.7.1802]
b6 Magdalena Petronella Dorothea 2.11.1804-26.12.1806]
4. KLERCK BRANCHES FOR WHICH A ‘SLOT’ HAS NOT YET BEEN
FOUND
Johannesburg/Port Elizabeth
Unknown
b1 Ernest ?-? *Magdalene
c1 Cathlene ? * Mr Morialy
c2 John Ernest ?-? *Benita ?
(lives PE)
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d1 Douglas
c3 William Henry 27.10.1926-2.2.1985 *Margarie Violet Elsie Gray (011-706 4167)
d1 Susan Anne 25.11.1954
d2 Penelope 10.2.1956 *Brian Joseph *Jacques Viljoen
d3 Gregory Walton 26.1.1958 *Heidi?
e1 Roxanne 27.11.1991
e2 Savanna 28.10.1994
Johannesburg
Unknown
b1 Hendrik Pieter ?-c1924
c1 Ernst Hendrik Pieter ?-c1995
d1 Hendrik Pieter 13.2.1931 *Hester Frylinck (lives Jhb - was in advertising - 011-6782930)
e1 Alida Hester 20.7.1956 *Dr Coenraad van Rooyen ( 2 children - live Nelspruit)
e2 Hendrik Pieter ? *Jeanette Morton
f1 Hendrik Pieter c1991 (lives Jhb 011-7926179)
f2 James Morton c1993
f3 Nicolene c1995
d2 Georg Christiaan 20.3.1934 *Millicent Mathewson
e1 Gilton George *no (lecturer Rhodes - doing family tree)
e2 David Peter *no
e3 Michael Paul *no
d3 Gertruida Martha 30.4.1938-c1985
c2 Johan Gerhardus Rynholdt
d1 Magdalena c1928-c98 *yes - had 3 children
c3 Petrus (oom Piet) *yes - no children - bank manager in Orange Free State
c4 could have had other children - was married 3 times
b1 Hendrik Pieter ? * (011-678 2930)
c1 Hendrik Pieter ? *?(starts with an I - 011-678 4167)
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5. KLERCK FAMILY HISTORY ACCORDING TO PAMA (SEE SOURCE 4)
Verbatim from a chapter entitled Dutch Aristocrats (p 61-63):
‘A family of much the same aristocratic rank as the Van Rheedes were the Klercks. It is probably unique in
South Africa that a family not only possesses the portraits of its ancestors who came to the Cape in the
eighteenth century, but also has a picture of the house built by them, graced by a decorated pediment on
which they placed their joint coat of arms. In addition the Government Archives also possesses a fine
hatchment of the man, complete with the arms of his sixteen paternal and maternal ancestors, the ‘seize
quartiers’, and the arms of his two wives. And as if that were not enough, the same archives also possesses a
beautifully executed family chronicle, with still more coats of arms, the ‘Genealogia Klerckiana’
caligraphed, according to the title page, by MC Volhard in 1770. It is well worth a visit to the archives in
Queen Victoria Street to see and admire these interesting relics.
According to the manuscript the family came originally from Bohemia (Czechoslovakia) where they were
known as Klerck von Petershem (incorrect: von Petersom, also spelt as von Petersheim). One of their
members was a page in the service of Frederick of Bohemia, the well-known ‘Winter King’, fled with him
to Holland when all was lost, and settled in 1613 in the town of Rhenen (incorrect: a Klerck was the
Chamberlain (right-hand man) to the King and he had two sons who were pages to the King). Again
according to Volhard, they then dropped the Von Petershem part of their surname, now simply calling
themselves Klerck and retaining only the coat of arms with the two keys of St Peter to remind them of their
origin.
It is a touching story but unfortunately, as so many similar ones, it was unable to survive modern
genealogical research. Volhard himself was not very sure about it when he wrote it down, and had to
confess ‘perhaps I have not remembered it too well.’ He was right in this assumption because the
documented genealogy in the ‘Nederland’s Adelsboek’, the equivalent of the British Debrett, relates quite a
different story. If there was ever any Bohemian origin, the authors did not discover it. It appears, in fact, that
the Klercks always lived at Rhenen and that the oldest known ancestor was a Cornelis Gerritszoon Clerck,
who is mentioned there in 1574 and died in 1585. The builder of the Cape House, Willem Jan Klerck, was
his descendant in the seventh generation. But even without the Bohemian ancestry the family was
distinguished enough to serve for many generations in the Rhenen town council, and in 1833 were ennobled
by King Willem II of the Netherlands.
Willem Jan was also born at Rhenen, obtained a commission in the Dutch navy and finally became a naval
captain and Commander of the frigate ‘De Swaluw’ between 1791 and 1793. The frigate went to the Dutch
East Indies and this brought Klerck to the Cape where he met Aletta Wilhelmina Deneys (although a letter
from the Dutch archives states that Klerck in fact sold De Swaluw in China; it is assumed that the ship
which brought him to Cape Town, a Danish ship called Thetis, also carried his future wife, and mother of
the SA Klercks, Aletta).. They became engaged and after they had married Klerck decided to leave the navy
and settle permanently at the Cape. It was probably in this period that he built the house in Boomstraat, now
Commercial Street. Today it is a street of warehouses and wholesalers, but when called Boomstraat and
even earlier when it was known by the aristocratic-sounding name of Ridderstraat (Knight Street) it was a
much sought-after residential area in which civil servants of the Dutch East India Company of the highest
ranks used to live. Colin Graham Botha gave a charming picture of them as they sat on their stoeps,
discussing current affairs while smoking their long Gouda clay pipes. In Klerck’s time the retired Ad
Interim Fiscal Gabriel Exter lived there and he himself was no less important a personality. What Klerck did
during the first British occupation I have been unable to discover except that, according to the Cape
Directory of 1800, he still lived in Boomstraat and evidently had not left the country. When the Dutch
returned he was appointed Weesmeester (Master of the Orphan Chamber) in 1804 and later, under the
second British administration, he became a Receiver of Revenue.
His wife Aletta Wilhelmina Deneys belonged to a family who was already for several generations in the
service of the Dutch East India Company. Her father, Jacob Pieter, born at the Cape, was eventually
appointed to the rank of Merchant and placed in charge of the Company’s possession of Sadraspatnam, on
the coast of Coromandel, in India. It was here that Aletta was born. In 1791 Deneys was made a prisoner of
war by the British but later exchanged against a certain George Proctor. Back at the Cape he became Ad
Interim Fiscal.
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The coat of arms of the Deneys’s was a horse ‘regardant’ and when Klerck’s house was finished he
combined this coat of arms with his own arms, showing the keys, and placed them on the pediment. I know
of no other examples of heraldic decorations on houses at the Cape and it was probably unique, although
obviously fashioned after examples in Holland where such heraldic decorations were quite common,
especially in Amsterdam. On his seal, still preserved in the Cape Archives, Klerck also placed the combined
arms of himself and his wife. That was not unusual in his time either, although less so at the Cape. It may be
wishful thinking but because of this persistent habit of combining the two arms one cannot help feeling that
perhaps Klerck and his wife were very much in love with each other and showed it in this heraldic way.
However, it may also have been nothing more than convention. In any case, when Aletta died in December
1816 Klerck remarried, hardly three months later, with Catharina Maria Munnik, which seems unduly
quick. The arms of both wives were placed on the hatchment which now hangs in the museum of the Cape
Archives, the Munnik arms being ‘canting’: a monk with a rosary.
The house in Boomstraat remained known as Klerck House even after the family no longer lived there.
When Arthur Elliott photographed it about 1900 it already looked rather neglected, and it was demolished
before Cape Town had learned to treasure its worthy antiquities. The two-storeyed house with its heraldic
pediment was no doubt one of the more interesting houses of the city and had certainly merited
preservation, even if the street in which it stood had completely lost its original dignified character.
Willem and Aletta had five children and from their two sons the present family descends. They retained
their ties with Holland longer than was usual: a century ago one of them still served in the Netherlands
navy, and even today they have relatives in Holland as some of the family married there. The ennobled
branch of the family became extinct in 1926 and because of this some of the old family heirlooms were sent
to the surviving branch in South Africa, amongst them ‘Genealogia Klerckiana’ manuscript. At the Cape
they always remained a small family and are often confused with the more numerous De Klerks to whom
they are not related. Most members went into the professions and the majority of them now live in the
Transvaal.
Note: italics ours (APF and MvPK).
6. PEN SKETCHES OF THE KLERCKS OF SOUTH AFRICA
Note: the males with male offspring are shown in bold and italics.
1. WILLEM JAN
20.8.1766-21.5.1839 *Aletta Wilhelmina Denys (see footnote) *Catharina Maria Munnik
2. CHILDREN OF WILLEM JAN (1766-1839)
Dirk Jacob Arnold 5.9.1794-7.11.1795]
Johan Rynhold Gerhardus (see 3)
Born on 6.1.1797-? * Susanna Margaretha Moller
Hester Aletta Arnoldina 14.4.1798-? * Pieter Harmsen
Wilhelmina Albertina Maria 1.7 1799-1848 *Paul Roux]
Son (unnamed) 10.5.1802- ?.7.1802]
Magdalena Petronella Dorothea 2.11.1804-26.12.1806]
3. CHILDREN OF JOHAN RYNHOLD GERHARDUS (1797-?)
Willem Jan Menthem 8.10.1817-16.10.1817]
Willem Jan Menthem 7.1.1819-2.8.1821]
Hendrik Pieter 3.4.1821-22.2.1876]
Willem Jan (see 4)
Born on13.7.1826-? *Johanna Petronella van Schoor
Johan Rynhold Gerhardus (see 8)
Born on 20.4.1829 and passed away on 16.9.1902. Married Anna Elizabeth van der Byl Morkel in
Stellenbosch and had 10 children. Died in Pietermaritzburg.
Wilhelmina Coernelia Johanna 15.10.1831-? *George Peacock Bainbridge
Rynhold Antonio Crozier (see 9)
Born in Cape Town on 30.3.1842. Died 22.6.1893. Married to Mary Sophia Tait.
4. CHILDREN OF WILLEM JAN (1826-?)
9
Anna Tobia ?-very old]
Susanna Margaretha 6.11.1853-15.11.1938 *Petrus Jacobus Bosman
Jan Cornelius ?-? (no info on children)
William George (see 5)
Born on 2.2.1856-11.11.1907 *Rachel Jacoba Petronella de Villiers
Wilhelmina CM 1859-23.6.1945 *Dr TJ Dixon
Rynholdt Antonie Ernest
Born on 29.12.1861 and died 8.5.1946. Married Margaretha Aletta Naude and had three daughters,
Marie Johanna ?-? (*KJ Hamman), Johanna Petronella ?-9.1.1920 (unmarried?) and Sarah Wilhelmina ?14.8.1937.
Maria Gysberta Jacoba 1863-? *Hendrik Abraham Marais *JJ Michau
Sophia Margareta Alletta ?-? *Jan Momsen
Johanna Petronella ?-?
5. CHILDREN OF WILLIAM GEORGE (1856-1907)
Willem Jan (see 6)
Born 3.5.1881-31.10.1958 *Lily Aarestraup
Izak Jacob de Villiers (see 7.2)
Born 4.8.1883-2.3.1944. Married Johanna Christina du Plessis.
William George 8.4.1885 *Miss Alexander]
Edmund van Schoor ?-young]
Johanna Petronella 9.1.1891-? *Tobias Smuts
Adele Elise 26.12.1893-? *Johannes Rudolph Buhrmann
6. CHILDREN OF WILLEM JAN (1881-1958)
Helga Theresia 30.1.1909-? *Harris Robert Manning
Son 17.3.1911-young]
Norma 11.11.1913-? Daniel Hermanus Pienaar
Ella 9.9.1915-2.10.84 *Andries Beyleveld
Willem Jan von Petersom (see 7)
Born 5.5.1920-4.4.81 *Barbara?
7. CHILDREN OF WILLEM JAN VON PETERSOM (1920-81)
Michael von Petersom
Born Cape Town 15.9.1955. Married…... Later married to Marietta 01.4.65-. Teacher, lecturer and
author. Lives Cape Town.
7.1 CHILDREN OF MICHAEL VON PETERSOM
Cindy Joy
Born Cape Town on 21.9.1979.
Maria Kathlene
Born Cape Town on 26.11.1996.
7.2 CHILDREN OF IZAK JACOB DE VILLIERS (1883-1944)
Johanna Christina 2.7.1915 *Johann Heinrick Sheffer.
8. CHILDREN OF JOHAN RYNHOLD GERHARDUS (1829-1902)
(10 children)
9. CHILDREN OF RYNHOLD ANTONIO CROZIER (1842-93)
Magdalena Johanna 1870-? *Adv JA Greer
Susan Margaretha 1871-? Charles du Plessis Chiappini
Johan Rynholdt Gerhardus (see 10)
Born1873-? *K Botha
Alexander Morrison (see 13)
Born in 1875 and died in1955. Married to Caroline JohannaCarter.Grew up and went to school in
Tulbagh. Possibly lived in Knysna at one stage. Described as a fine, upstanding and kindly gentleman by
daughter. Worked for the erstwhile South African Railways and Harbours and retired at 60 or 65. At
outbreak of WW2 was asked to return to work and did so until age 70. He was very fond of cats and was
met by his feline friend Gustas at the tramstop every day after work. Keen on tennis and fishing. Was
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astute with money and owned two houses in Rocklands Road in Sea Point where he brought up his
family. He left his children well-off and every grandchild received a monetary inheritance. Was devoted
to wife, who died at young age (59), but never re-married.
Rynholdt Antonio 1879-1879]
George William (see 21)
Born 1882-? *Anna T Louw
Hubert Henry Hull (see 22)
Born Cape Town in 1886. Date of death not known. Married a G Korsten.
10. CHILDREN OF JOHAN RYNHOLDT GERHARDUS (1873-?)
Boy ?-young]
Girl ?-young]
Elaine Mary 2.4.1903-? *Evan David Evans
John Rynhold Gerhardus (see 10.1)
Born 28.2.1906 and died at 66 on 5.6.1972. Married widow Mary Magdalene Sephton of Standerton at
age 51 or 52 in c1960. Was a medical doctor in Standerton all his life and the Deputy Mayor at one
stage. Widow still lives in Standerton (017-7127380).
Eric Stephanus (see 11)
Born 7.2.1908-? *Martha Hendrina Elizabeth de Kock
Hudson Henry (see 12)
Born 6.10.1910-? *Zilla Doreen le Roux. Farmed in Rustenberg district.
10.1 CHILDREN OF JOHAN RYNHOLDT GERHARDUS (1906-C1967)
John Rynhold Gerhardus
Born on 28.3.1959 in Standerton. Unmarried. Lives in Van der Byl Park where he owns a butchery.
Thomas Sephton
Born 18.10.1969 in Standerton. Not married. Lives in Linden, Johannesburg, and works for a
pharmaceutical firm in Midrand
Tobie Lerm
Born Standerton on 3.4 1972. Married to Dorothy Tom on 27.12.1997 but has no children as yet. Works
in managerial capacity for agricultural-chemicals firm and lives in Wellington.
11. CHILDREN OF ERIC STEPHANUS (1908-)
John Rynhold
Born 29.1.1938. Married to Monica Louis Jordaan and later divorced. They had no children. Lives in
Pretoria (012-3418461)
Werner Gerhardus (see 11.1)
Born on 27.8.1940. Married to Adele Retief. Professor at the University of South Africa. They live in
Pretoria (012-6642261)
Eric Stephanus (see 11.2)
Born 21.8.1942. Married to Erne van Rhyn. Retired in fifties to Keerboomstrand (04457-9712).
11.1 CHILDREN OF WERNER GERHARDUS (1940-)
Mine
Gerhard
Lise
11.2 CHILDREN OF ERIC STEPHANUS (1942-)
Eric ? *yes
Lindie ? *yes
Wynand
Andrew
12. CHILDREN OF HUDSON HENRY (1910-?)
Hudson Henry (see 12.1)
Born Rustenberg on 31.5.1938. Inherited the old farm house and the beach house at Keerboomstrand.
Personnel manager at a Platinum mine in Rustenberg. (0142-950274)
Kobus (see 12.2)
Born Rustenberg on 18.11.1940. Inherited the family farm in Rustenberg and farms it full time. Married
Dorothea Regina Kleynhans. (0142-93173)
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12.1 CHILDREN OF HUDSON HENRY (1938-)
Carol ? *yes
Hudson Henry ? *?. Lives ?
Johan
Born Rustenberg on …. Married…… Architect in Pretoria. First child due late April or early May
12.2 CHILDREN OF HUDSON HENRY
Shane ? (female)
Carla ?
12.3 CHILDREN OF KOBUS (1940)
Zetta Regina 23.3.1967
Wouter 12.8.1969. Involved in a Safari business in Botswana.
13. CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER MORRISON (1875-C1955)
Frederick Rynhold
Born in Cape Town 27.9.c1897 and died Pretoria c1968. Known as Bennie to his friends. Worked for
government in the health care field - mostly in Pretoria. Married Violet Tweedale, who died in early
sixties and then to Iris van Niekerk. Had one daughter, Derma, who married a Mr Gibbs and they live in
Pinelands. He was a very kind and friendly person and had a keen sense of humour - especially about his
glass eye which he lost inWW1.
Alexander Morrison
Known as Tortie to his buddies. Born c1900 and died in early fifties on 31.7.1954. Married to Olive
Allen who died in late forties in 1948. Married again to Louise ?. Worked for South African Railways
and Harbours and later in hospital administration in Durban. Fought in WW1 and lost an arm.
Charles Edwin
Known as Charlie. Born 30.10.1902 and died in 1971. Married to Ellen Wilkie and lived at Clifton.
John Ludwig
Known as Jackie. Born1 4.10.1913 and died 3.1.91. Married Mary Patricia Lewis (Pat) and lived in
Bantry Bay.
William Herbert
Called Billy by his friends. Born 13.7.1916 and died 11.10.1987. Married Elaine Helen Roland-Andrews
(Bobs) Worked …. and lived Bantry Bay.
Marguerita Mary
Born 26.1.1918 in Sea Point. Married to Johannes (Hannes) Philibert Morkel Faure of Faure, who
became an ‘Ace’ fighter pilot during the war. He reached the rank of Lt Colonel at a very young age (in
his twenties) and was decorated DSO and DFC (and Bar). Lived at Faure, Strand and Gordon’s Bay
while Hannes away up North. After war Hannes appointed Officer Commanding of Langebaan Air Force
Base and later of Ysterplaat. Hannes left Air Force in 1951 after the Nationalist government purge of the
military and joined brother ‘Hennie’ on the family farm ‘Kahlenberg’ left to them by their father,
Senator PAB Faure, in 1947. Lived on the farm (which was added to on a number of occasions which
made it one of the largest in the country) until they moved to ‘Somerset Oaks’ retirement village in
c1987. Had six children Philibert Klerck (1945-65), Alexander Pierre (1946), Johann Klerck (1948),
Carol Klerck (1952), Klerck Pieter (1956) and Lance Klerck (1957). Marguerita Mary, known as
‘Liefie’ by close friends and described by them as having a zest for life, always full of fun, a veritable
human ‘tonic’. Fond of the product of the tobacco plant.
13.1 CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER MORRISON (C1899-C1940)
Yvonne
Born Cape Town 19.3.1921 and married Percy Little. Had three children, Janeen 28.2.1948, Sally
12.10.1951 (the famous golfer), and Donavon 7.1.1954. The entire family emigrated to America.
Richard Alexander
Born Cape Town on 22.7.1922. Married Irene Gascoign. Emigrated to Australia and had two children,
Patricia c10.1947 and Dereck ?.
Shirley Sybil
Born Cape Town 10.6.1924 and passed away at age 9 in 1933.
14. CHILDREN OF CHARLES EDWIN (1902-71)
Alexander Morrison John
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Born Cape Town 31.12.1942. Occupies senior position at the City Council. Married Pamela May Marais.
Lives at Camps Bay. (011-………)
Irene 22.10.1945-1973]
15. CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER MORRISON JOHN (1942-)
Graeme Charles 17.3.1972
Paul Alexander 14.1.1973
Jeremy James 10.7.1977
Neil Ernest 8.6.1979
16. CHILDREN OF JOHN LUDWIG (1913-91)
George Anthony
Born Cape Town 11.3.1944. Married Ethne Joyce Galway on …. Has senior position with stationary
supplier. Lives ….
Diane Margretta Percel 30.11.1946 *Carl Louwrens
David Charles
Born Cape Town 15.2.1952. Married Francesca Barret and lives in East London.
17. CHILDREN OF GEORGE ANTHONY (1944-)
Wayne Ashley 19.9.68
Deon Justin 10.5.70 *Tina Taljard
Natalie Andrea 7.3.77
18. CHILDREN OF DAVID CHARLES (1952-)
Ray Leonard 16.10.1990
19. CHILDREN OF WILLIAM HERBERT (1916-87)
Ivan William
Born Cape Town 15.5.1941. Married Wendy Diana Wright in Cape Town. Qualified as CA(SA) and
became founder member of Waltons Stationary which took he and his family to Durban for some years.
There founded Acecraft Marine which was later sold when he moved back to Cape Town. Also involved
in the boat building business there which was later sold. Became involved in the property business in
middle nineties. Very keen fisherman.
Lynne ? *Pearson
20. CHILDREN OF IVAN WILLIAM 15.5.1941
Mandy Lyn 4.12.1967 *Gary Morton Fisher
Gavin Ryan 15.5.1972
21. CHILDREN OF GEORGE WILLIAM (1882-?)
Jan Klerck von Petersom
Born Cape Town on 27.2.1917. Married Nora Madeleine Stromwall, who passed away at a young age.
Lives Durban. No children. (031-215286).
22. CHILDREN OF HUBERT HENRY HULL (1886-?)
Richard
Born Cape Town on…… Married Margaret Jane Knipe. Lived… Worked….
Anthony Greer
Born Cape Town on 10.1.1930 and passed away at age 58 on 25.7.1988. Married to Evelyn Maureen
Knipe. Worked…. Lived…. Evelyn lives at Camps Bay. Anthony known as a ‘character’ of note. Had
two daughters, Catherine Margaret 12.10.1955 (*Alan Young (lives PE)) and Lesley Ann 8.3.1959 (*Dr
Clive Ward-Able). The latter emigrated to Canada.
23. CHILDREN OF RICHARD (?…)
Nicolas
Born Cape Town on ….? Works for De Beers and spends most of his time at sea off the coast of
Namibia.
Patrick
Born Cape Town on ….? Works for De Beers and is mostly at sea off the coast of Namibia.
Michael (see 24)
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Born Cape Town on ….. Married a french girl, …… Works for…. Lives…….
Gillian ? *
Richard
Born Cape Town on …. Married to …? Emigrated to England.
24. CHILDREN OF MICHAEL (?…)
a son
7. NOTES TO THE ABOVE
1.
2.
3.
4.
Aletta Wilhelmina Deneys (or Denys or den Neys) was the grand-daughter of Adriaan Denyes, the
‘stamvader’ of the Deneys family in South Africa.
] denotes no children.
? denotes unknown. For example, the ? in Aletta ?-12.4.1987 means date of birth unknown.
c denotes circa.
8. SOURCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
An old document to be found in the Cape Archived titled Genealogia Klerckiana written by ……?, and
added to by later generations. Document sourced by Michael von Petersom Klerck (1955-).
Various letters in the possession of Michael von Petersom Klerck (1955-).
Nederland’s Adelboek, NV Boekhandel, WP van Stockum & Zoon, ‘s Gravenhage, 1921. In possession
of Michael von Petersom Klerck, donated by Jan Klerck von Petersom Klerck.
Pama C. Vintage Cape Town, Tafelberg Uitgewers Beperk, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 1973.
Numerous telephone calls to members of the family.
9. WORLD WIDE WEB SITE
Michael von Pietersom Klerck has a website on the Klerck family:
http://home.worldonline.co.za/~klerck/klerck/home.html
10. APPENDICES
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Copy of original ‘Genealogia Klerckania’
Copy of other genealogical material in the other copy of ‘Genealogia Klerckania’
Copies of all the family arms (in colour)
Copies of other old documents
April 1998.
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