Nicolaas was die seun van Johannes van der Westhuizen en Christina Cloete.
Nieclaas
Baptised:
1790, 21 Vebruarij 1790
Father:
Johannes VAN DE WESTHUIJSE (Jan zoon)
Mother:
Chrisstina CLOETE
Witnesses:
Nieclaas van de Westhuijse Jan zo[on] en Chrisstiena Kruger
Additional
notes: Geboren de 14 September 1789
Source:
Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Swartland (Malmesbury), .
ucfirst(baptism) register, 1783-1809, page 56. Repository: NG Kerkargief,
Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G5 3/3. Transcribed by Lizette Svoboda, from
photographs of Cape Archives VC 667
Die
volgende Van der Westhuizens was deel van die Groot Trek trekgeselskap van P.D.Jacobs wat April/Mei 1838 vertrek het.
b.3.c.8.d.2.e.3. Nicolaas en Magdalena Christina VAN WYK,
woonplek Juriesfontein (Guries fontyn), Nuweveld, Beaufort.
The PD Jacobs party
('trekgeselskap') that departed in April or May 1838 from the Beaufort (West)
district. The Jacobs party originally trekked to Natal, but did not stay for
long. PD Jacobs owned a farm at Potchefstroom by June 1839, but settled near Heidelberg
(Tvl) in 1840.
(https://www.geni.com/projects/The-Welgevonden-Venters-of-Groot-Spelonken-1880-1980/17259)
