English follows Afrikaans Engela Kruger se artikel “Een van Emily se ‘kinders’” het op 5 September 2026 in Die Burger (Jou Wêreld, pp. 6–7) verskyn. Dit word nou met die vriendelike toestemming van die skrywer en van Die Burger op vanrooyen.africa herdruk. Dit vertel die verhaal van haar oumagrootjie, Engela Jacoba van Rooyen (1886–1979) van…
English follows Afrikaans. Genealogieë van die Afrikaner Families in Natal (GAFN) teken die stamregisters op van families wat hulle vanaf die Groot Trek in Natal gevestig het. Dr. Ben Cilliers het die werk in 1985 gepubliseer nadat hy, terwyl hy in 1980 in Pietermaritzburg werksaam was, met argiefnavorsing begin het en bewus geword het van…
In my last post I wrote about what we could expect the voyage to the Cape of Good Hope to have been like, and that Cornelis chose to stay at the Cape rather than continue on to Batavia on the Middelwoud. Cornelis remained an employee of the VOC at the Cape. Despite choosing to remain…
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Last database update 19 October 2026.
Hello,
I have been researching the South African Van Rooyen family descended from progenitor Cornelis for more than two decades, the Van Rooyens being my maternal line. I’m delighted to share my ongoing research with you.
This website aims to share historical and genealogical information on the Van Rooyen family in South Africa (as well as the diaspora) who descend from Cornelis van Rooijen who arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1714.
This website includes both static pages (please use menu at top) and blog posts. Click on ‘database’ to go to the website where I host the Van Rooyen genealogical information.
