The van der Merwes come south to the Prince Albert district

about 1950 · family · Prince Albert

The maternal line does NOT come out of the Prince Albert district. Three generations sit in the northern Karoo - Van Wyksvlei (b.1891), Bokvlakte (b.1900), Calvinia (m.1917), Williston (b.1928, m.1949). It is Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe and Maria Magritha van Rensburg who move south to VREDENDAL, part of Spreeufontein No. 26, in about the 1950s - where their daughter Catharina, Frans's mother, grew up and where their son Deon farms today. So the two halves of this family reach the same ground from opposite ends of the Karoo, roughly a century apart: the Oosthuizens from the east and south by 1841, the van der Merwes from the north-west by about 1950. Approximate date [TO VERIFY] - the deeds for Vredendal would date the arrival exactly.

Who was there: 2 people

• 1924 Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
• 1928 Maria Magritha van Rensburg

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line person pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views

Told in

• subject Vredendal: three surnames on the stones, one family in the house
• evidence The van der Merwes of the Hantam
• evidence Four grandparents, four countries
• evidence The van Rensburgs of the dry north