Our Team

The Team working on recording the Weeks Legacy

Canada & USA
Canada & USA

Lennie Paquette - Lennie has done extensive research into the Cornwall origin and the Canada Family of William & Elizabelth ( Hawk) Weeks son- John Weeks who married Mary (Parken) and immigrated to Canada with their family in the early 1800

All Weeks Families
All Weeks Families


Douggie & Thea (Retief) Weeks - I am focusing on all the Weeks families from Island of Wright, UK, Scotland to the rest of the world. My family is from Cornwall and 1820 Settlers decedent to South Africa

Mike Weeks
Mike Weeks

Mike & Justine (Knowles), together with his brother Rodney & Tracy ( Brown) for the Jabez & Anne ( Trollip) Family and last born son of James & Mary Ann ( Shepperson) Weeks- 1820 Settlers. They are still managing their family farm from1898.

Mike Birkenbach
Mike Birkenbach

Mike research work is focused on his primary family tree (Birkenbach) and has been existentially involve setting up and support with the Weeks tree. His dad is
Andries Johannes Weeks Birkenbach

Lynn ( Weeks) Snyman
Lynn ( Weeks) Snyman


Lynn is the grand daughter of the legend Albert Weeks and Albert married Heila van Rooyen.
Albert is also the family name carried over from Albert and Alida ( Viljoen) Weeks.
Lynn is the glue to her family.

Wally Weeks
Wally Weeks

Wallie & Renate (Swannepoel) Weeks , the son of uncle Wallie Weeks. Wallie is assisting with collecting history for our next generation.

Fiona Mercia Weeks
Fiona Mercia Weeks


Fiona is a decedent from James William Weeks married to Magaretha Wolhurter. Fiona dad Raymond Weeks was the youngest son of David & Rachael ( Horn) Weeks

Moira ( Weeks)
Moira ( Weeks)


Moira is a dependent of the 1820 Settlers and daughter of the legend Leon Christoffel Weeks. Leon Weeks dad Walter George Weeks was the 7th son of Albert & Alida (Viljoen) Weeks

Elizabeth (Weeks) Posthumus
Elizabeth (Weeks) Posthumus

Liesbet is the eldest daughter of Albert Petrus Weeks. Albert Weeks was the eldest son of William & Martha ( van Wyk) Weeks. William was the eldest son of Albert Petrus & Alida ( Viljoen) Weeks

Rosemary Ray ( Weeks) Burl
Rosemary Ray ( Weeks) Burl

Rose is the eldest daughter of John & Veronica (Lee) Weeks and married Duncan Burl.
I have found the ladies to understand the family history better and have extended patients with research, and Rose has done some magic finding records in the UK of our Weeks Family in Cornwall and instrumental to our team-

Morgan Weeks
Morgan Weeks

Morgan Weeks is Andre & Johanna P ( Hatting) Weeks' only son.
Morgan has extensive knowledge and studied IT ( Information Technology). Morgan is instrumental to our web site running, loading and activities and offered to keep our web page updated, attractive to new visitors, and applauded by our viewers and family.

Sonja ( Weeks) van der Schyff
Sonja ( Weeks) van der Schyff

Soja is the youngest daughter of Walter & Martha ( Benade) Weeks and married Rhean van der Schyff.

Leoni Weeks
Leoni Weeks

Leoni is the daughter of Leon Christopher Weeks that were part of the drive to unravel the Weeks family. Leoni has the same gene for history and a great support.

Our Projects

We on a mission to find family related to or with the last name Weeks, and to record all available information, stories, interviews and photos.

Record Stories and photos
Record Stories and photos

We have embarked on a seach to find family and upload Weeks descendants and their spouses information, missing links, photos and stories.

Video - Life Story
Video - Life Story

No-one had a sell by date or know when you have completed the race-
We are conducting video interviews with family to record this live.

Data
Data

We have way too many unresolved or linked family trees and only have a few Weeks researchers-
Myself and Lennie will focus on the duplicates, Cornwall Family and try to close the gaps in the trees and people.

Our Family and Friends comments

What Say Our Happy Family and Friends

"Thanks for all the pages, You have done so much work.... "

Delia Bavia
Delia Bavia Weeks Family

"You guys are legendary! You guys are great and having amazing support & service. I couldn’t ask for any better. Thank you!"

Herman Girard
Herman Girard Family

Your webpage is coming along great. Thank you!"

Lennie Paquette
Lennie Paquette Weeks Family USA

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Weeks Street -Potchefstroom

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Family suffers terribly tragedy

Weeks Street (South)
The street was named after Captain Andries Johannes Weeks, who was the superintendent of the Location to the south of town. The Location was the designated area where people of colour lived at the time.

Capt Weeks passed away in September 1945 at the age of 66 years while he was still in the service of the municipality.

This was a scant three years after the family had suffered a tragic loss during the Second World War. This was brought to my attention by Mr Pat Page in an email I received in 2013. He grew up in Potchefstroom where is father worked at the Agricultural College and his wife, Marion, was the daughter of a long-time editor of the Potchefstroom Herald, Ernest Jenkins. Pat wrote:

When you visited the cemetery I wonder if you came across the graves of two brothers named Andrew and Walter Weeks, who were both in the SA Air Force and were both killed in air crashes and were buried in the Potchefstroom cemetery. It must have been between 1940 and 1942. They were the ‘laat lammetjies’ of Mr Weeks, the superintendent of the Location at the bottom of King Edward/Kerk Street. Walter, we called him ‘Puggy’, went through school with me and was a close friend. A terrible incident happened when the body was sent by train to Potchefstroom. His father was asked to pay the railage (railway charges) to release the body, but did not have the money. As if it wasn’t enough that he had lost a second son! So friends rallied round and paid the railage. I remember going to the funeral. It was harrowing.

Altogether six boys who were in my class at school and a teacher, lost their lives in the War, as well as three others I knew, but were not in my class.

The Burial Register of the Potchefstroom Cemetery revealed that Andrew Cyril Weeks was 23 years old when he passed away. He was buried on 14 December 1942.

Walter Wheymouth Weeks was 19 years old when he passed away. He was buried on 9 June 1942.

More information was supplied by Mr Frikkie (Douggie) Weeks who is busy researching the family history. He said that the Weeks family are descendants of 1820 Settlers. The patriarch of the Potchefstroom Weeks family was one of two brothers who both had 12 children. Apart from the two brothers who died in World War 2, two of their cousins also passed away in that conflict.

 

The marble panel in the hall of the Potchefstroom High School for Boys with the names of all its former pupils who passed away during the Second World War. The two Weeks brothers are listed.

 

James’ parents, William and Elizabeth (Hawk) married in 1874 and were Blessed with three children.

  • John Weeks was born on 6 March 1785, St Dominique Cornwall he married Mary Perkins on 17 March 1809 and immigrated to Canada with his family.
  • William was born on 18 May 1787 in Cornwall. (unfortunately, we haven’t explored his family yet and very little information is available.)
  • James Weeks born on 6 June 1790 in Truro, Cornwall.

James Weeks married Grace Ackerly (b 1794) on the 5 February 1817 in Mabe, Cornwall UK.

James remarry Mary Ann Shepperson in 1825

Fiona Weeks help restoring the infrastructure

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Fiona Weeks - EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN MAKING A DIFFERENCE in the community
(July 2022)
Fiona Weeks

It's a reality that our current Town Council is not delivering the service that the ratepayers have paid their taxes to maintain the roads. The people of Spruitfontein jumped in to fix some potholes - and this has a knock-on effect on their vehicles, their safety, and the risk to sustain an injury while doging a pothole and oncoming trafic.
The strong personality to lead and make a difference is a Weeks trade and Fiona Weeks is noticeable in the front row again to add her support to help.




Update on repairs: 6 November 2022

Back Jaco (driver) - middle left Jaques , Johan, Fiona - front left Thabo and Johannes
Fiona Weeks
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Old Pretoria Road R105 between Kroondal and Buffelspoort