Paul HEYNS was gebore in Leipzig in 1655. Hy was in die diens van die Kompanie vanaf 1679. Hy word 'n sersant in in 1693, en later word hy 'n burger. Hy trou die 23ste September 1696 met Maria SCHALK. Sy was die buite-egtelike kind van Willem Schalk van der Merwe en 'n Kompanie slavin. Maria se moeder was 'n slavin wat Simon van der Stel aan Willem Schalk van der Merwe geskenk het en sy was in 1686 vrygestel (Attestasie 1664 in C 326 pp 478-9, p 6 en 27).

Hy trou weer 'n tweede maal 27 Februarie 1701 met Maria LOZEE VAN DE KAAP. Sy was die weduwee van Douwe Gerbrandt Steyn. Maria was 'n vorige slavin.

KINDERS:

b1 Sara gebore 17 Des 1685, X Kaapstad 13 Jul Heinrich Oswald Eksteen

b2 Johannes gebore 5 Jun 1688, gedoop 25 Julie 1688, X Maria Colyn van de Kaap

b3 Anna gebore 17 Jul 1691, gedoop 23 September 1691, X 7 Feb 1712 Cornelia Doessen

b4 Hendrik gebore 5 September 1694, 26 Sep 1694, X 7 Feb 1723 Delia van der Storm

b5 Michiel Africanus gebore 26 Maart 1697, gedoop 7 April 1697, X 22 Sep 1720 Aletta Olivier

b6 Maria gebore 24 Feb 1700

Bronne:

Hoge, Personalia of Germans at the Cape

Heese en Lombard

Saamgestel deur: AM van Rensburg

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Note by Lodewyk Christiaan 'Chris' Steyn

The above list of children raises some questions in my mind. Since Paul married Maria Schalk only in 1696, I wonder who was the mother of the first few of Paul's children. The date of birth that I have of Maria Schalk is 1680, so she would have been five years old when the first listed child, Sara, was born.

[Her birth date has been updated to 23 SEP 1664, making her 21 years old when Sara HEYNS was born].

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Heraldry of South African Families / Coats of arms, crests, ancestry by C.PAMA/ A. A. Balkema, 1972

Page 40

EKSTEEN. Gules, a triangle, the point in base, and a chief, both argent. Crest: five ostrich feathers (seal 322).

On the wax impression the letters H. E. are placed in the chief and it seems, therefore, that the arms were used by Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen, fr. Lobenstein, b. 1678, d. 23.9.1741. Arr. 1702, burgher 1704, a.o. member of the Burgher Council and the Orphan Chamber, owner of the farms 'Lobenstein' and 'Elsjeskraal', who died a wealthy man. [166] Marr. (1) 13.7.1704 Sara Heyns, d.o. Paul Heyns; (2) 21.1.1717 Everdina Cruywagen; (3) 19.2.1719 Alida van der Heyden (18 children). [167] Some members of this family bear the following arms: argent, three lozenges azure. Crest: a lozenge azure between a pair of wings argent.

Page 322 Ref. notes 166 and 167

166: A wax impression with the same arms is also in the genealogical collections of the late Dr. F. W. F. Purcell, Cape Town. The arms dhown in figs. 245, 293 and 294 obviously belong to other families whose seals got into the wrong hands are not Eksteen. In the Coll. of seals, Govt. Arch. Cape Town is also an impression of an Arabic seal, used by Johannes Petrus Eksteen at Cassembazaar, 1758 to seal a letter to his uncle, J. H. Blanckenberg. Acc. to BR 22.2.1946 the arms are: 'blou skild in twee verdeel deur 'n goue chevron; onder is drie wit ringe, gerangskik een en twee'. This is evidently copied from the Dutch Eksteens; azure, a chevron or, in base three ammulets argent placed 1 and 2 (AG).

167: For the first generations of this family: 'Familia' 1969, 31 and 1970, 91.

Page 173

HEYNS

Gules, three bars or between nine mullets argent,placed 3, 3, 2, 1. Mantling gules and or. Crest: a mullet argent. [501]

Paul Heyns, fr. Leipzig (Germ.) b. 1655 since 1679 in the service of the Dutch East India Company, later burgher. Marr. 23.9.1696 Maria Schalck van der Merwe; remarr. 27.2.1701 Maria Lozee, w.o. Douwe Gerbrand Steyn (6 children).

Page 338 Ref. note 501

501: BR 14.4.1945. Arms of Heyn (Amsterdam). They have another crest.

Source details : Page 40 (EKSTEEN) and Page 173 (HEYNS). Also Plate 23 (EKSTEEN Seal), Page 322 ref. notes 166 and 167 (EKSTEEN) and page 338 ref. note 501 (HEYNS). "BR" refers to the 'Die Brandwag'.

(Added by Y. DROST on 26 OCT 2024)

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