Wilhelmus Adriaan Engelbrecht, b2

• "The farmer [Hermanus Engelbrecht] told both Gordon and Patterson that he was the oldest son in the familly and had only one younger brother, Josias. But this was not true - there was a third middle brother named Willem Adriaan, two years younger than Hermanus, who was the black sheep of the family. Like Cornelis van der Westhuizen, Willem Adriaan had married a Khoikhoi woman; but unlike Cornelis, Willem Adriaan had stayed with her and given his numerous offspring his name, from which there are thousands of Coloured descendants in Namaqualand to this day. Although no colour bar separated races at this time, as it did during Apartheid, Willem Adriaan's relationship with a Khoikhoi woman was clearly anathema to his two brothers, who disowned him." - Wine, Women and Good Hope: A history of scandalous behaviour in the Cape, By June McKinnon.
• "Willem Adrian Engelbrecht was also shot by the Khoikhoi - who used guns by this time - but survived. He became known as 'Groot Koeelskouer Engelbrecht' because, when the bullet was being taken out of his shoulder with a red-hot knife, Willem drank some brandy, gritted his teeth and never made a sound.

- Wine, Women and Good Hope: A history of scandalous behaviour in the Cape, By June McKinnon.  

• "Paul and Gert were the bastard sons of the burgher Willem Engelbrecht of the Kamiesberg by a Khoikhoi woman." - The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier ... By Nigel Penn