van Rooyen Family Tree

bringing the branches of the van rooyen tree together

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Anthonius van Rooyen is die stamvader van die Noordkaapse van Rooyens (vanaf Amsterdam, a 1830 per skip, Die Neerlandskoning  via Java).  Hy is nie die Anthonie wat in SAG genoem word nie.

Sy van word op sy aansoek word as Van Rooy geteken, maar al verder het hy Van Rooyen geteken en is sy nageslag Van Rooyens.

Anthonius is getroud met Elsje Sophia Glaudina Jacoba VISSER op 6.1.1833 in Clanwilliam.

 Die enigste spoortjie van hom in SAG is van sy ongekoppelde oudste seun met 6 van die nege kinders:

Reynier van Rooyen * ca 1834 x Calvinia 2.10.1854 Regina Maria Basson   * ca 1832

b1     Willem Johannes Petrus * 30.7.1855  ≈ Calvinia 15.1.1856 x Calvinia 25.6.1877 x Elsje Sophia Johanna VISSER

b2     Matthys Michiel Basson * 31.10.1857 ≈ Calvinia 5.12.1858

b3     Johannes Albertus * 8.12.1859 ≈  Calvinia 23.9.1860

b4     Rynier Jacobus x Calvinia 8.6.1885 Zacharia Elizabeth NIGRINI

b5     Andries Johannes Jeremias * 7.10.1863 ≈  Calvinia 10.2.1864

b6     Elias Albertus * 21.11.1865 ≈  Calvinia 30.8.1866

 

 

 
Books containing van Rooyen info
  • South African Genealogies (SAG) from GISA
  • Genealogiee van die Afrikaner Families in Natal by Ben Cilliers
  • Geslagregisters van ou Kaapse Families by CC de Villiers, revised by C. Pama
  • Die Groot Afrkaanse Familenaamboek by C. Pama
van Rooyen Progenitors
  • Cornelis arrived in SA from Gorinchem in 1713 and married Jacomintjie van Deventer, Cornelia Botha and Barbara Myburgh
  • Antonie from Culemborg who married Aletta van Nieuwkerken and then Sophia Appel
  • Hendrikus Hermanus  arrived from Emmen in 1897 and married Hendrika Elizabeth Oliemans
  • Johannes Johannes van Rooyen van de Kaap who married Maria Sophia Fortuin
  • Anthonius arrived from Amsterdam 1830