Catharina van der Merwe
18 May 1953 – ? · van der Merwe line
Married into the family
Connection to the Koup
Lived on Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) in this district (1953-05-18).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Catharina
- Given
- Catharina
- Surname
- van der Merwe
The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.
Immediate family
- Mother
- Maria Magritha van Rensburg
- Brothers and sisters
- Maria Magritha van der Merwe, Jacobus Gideon "Deon" van der Merwe
- Married
- Christiaan Johannes Joubert Oosthuizen 1975
- Children
A life in the record
- 18 May 1953 born Born
- 18 May 1953 land Lived on it, Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
- 1975 married Married Christiaan Johannes Joubert Oosthuizen
Ground they are on record on
- Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) lived on it · 18 May 1953
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
Frans's mother; grew up at Vredendal
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Elders
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