Aart van der Lingen and Agatha Catharina van der Schyff

Aart met his wife Agatha Catharina van der Schyff very shortly after arriving at the cape. Her parents were poor and she grew up as the foster child of Gottlieb Wilhelm Bruckner and his wife. At the time Bruckner was the surgeon general at the Cape Town Castle. Bruckner was a member of the ZAG Zuid-Africaans Genoodschap the organisation that was in charge of the missionary group Aart belonged to.