Izaak van der Vyver

Reference no.: MOOC8/14.12a

Testator(s):

Elisabeth du Plessis

14 October 1771

v: Plettenberg

Inventaris mitsg:rs taxatie van alle zodanige goederen als op den 14 Aug:s a:o ab intestato metter dood zijn ontruijmt ende naargelaten door Elisabeth du Plessis huijsvrouw van den landbouwer Isaacq van den Vijver ten voordeele van haare eevengem: man ter eenree, mitsgaders haare bij denselven in huwelijk verwekte 4 minderjarige kinderen, met naamen:

1) Anna Elisabeth van den Vijver oud 8 jaren ter andere zijde

2) Willem van den Vijver oud 6 jaren

3) Maria Francina van den Vijver oud 4 jaaren en

4) Aletta Cicilia van den Vijver oud 2 jaaren

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Izaak van der Vywer B6, son of the stamvader Willem van der Vywer and Maria Vivier. One of eleven children children he was most likely born on the farm Tweefontein (gelegen aan de Hexe Revier) which was granted to Willem van der Vywer on the 19 March 1731 who lived here until 1752. The farm Tweefontein still exists ( the current manor house was constructed in 1806) and is in De Wet, 5km from Worcester. Over the years the farm has hosted Lord Charles Somerset, Field Marshall Jan Smuts and Helen Keller. Thanks to information provided by Julian Kritzinger. A licence to graze at Buffelsdrift behind Plattekloof was issued to Isaac van der Vywer in the 1st August 1768. Isaac would be 31 years old.

Added by ''John Kramer'' 12 July 2017 

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A licence to graze at Buffelsdrift behind Plattekloof (Farm 103 in the Ladismith area today) was issued to Isaac van der Vywer (b6), on the 1st August 1768. Isaac would be 31 years old at the time. It had been vacated by Martinius la Grange (b3c2). RLR 20 page 131. Earlier Marthinus La Grange had obtained a licence on the 8 February 1762 when he was 23 years old. It was vacated by his father Jan le Grange (b3). RLR 17/1 page1. Jan la Grange (b3) and Louis Fourie (b6) obtained a licence to graze sheep at Buffelsdrift behind Plattekloof on the 7th March 1749. RLR 12/1 Page 201. Jan was 37 years old and Louis was 46 years old in 1749.

Added by John Kramer 22 March 2014

Isaac (Izaak) van der Vyver

Born 11 Aug 1737 in Tweefontein, Breede River Valley, de Caep de Goede Hoopmap

Son of Willem van der Vijver and Marie Viviers

Brother of Anna Maria (van der Vyver) Rossouw, Aletta (Oliviers) Viljoen, Willem van der Vyver and Bartolomeus (van der Vyver) van der Vijver

Husband of Elizabeth (du Plessis) van der Vyver — married 20 Feb 1763 (to 1771) in Dutch Cape Colony

Husband of Susanna (Nel) van der Vyver — married 19 Jan 1772 (to 19 May 1793) in Dutch Cape Colony

Husband of Francina Johanna (Fourie) van de Vyver — married 19 May 1793 in Dutch Cape Colony

DESCENDANTS

Father of Anna Elisabeth (van der Vyver) Alberts, Maria Francina (van der Vyver) Nel, Gesina (van der Vyver) van Zyl, Izaak van der Vyver, Johanna (Van Der Vyver) du Plessis, Aletta Johanna Cecilia (van der Vijver) Zaayman, Johanna (van der Vijffer) van der Vyver and Martha Helena (van der Vijver) Fourie

Died in Cabo de Goede Hoop