Catharina Isabella Bruijn
12 June 1894 – 17 April 1953 · van der Merwe line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (1917-10-01).
- event Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn1917-10-01
Names
- Baptismal name
- Catharina Isabella
- Given
- Catharina Isabella
- Surname
- Bruijn
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
- Father
- Hubertus Bruijn
- Married
- Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe 1 October 1917
- Children
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- 1921Sybilla Aletta Sophia van der Merwe
- 1924Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
- 1925Christina Elizabeth van der Merwe
- 1927Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927)
- 1927Hester Maria Josina van der Merwe
- 1929Hendrieka Gertruida van der Merwe
- 1932Hubertus Bruyn van der Merwe
- 1935Elsje Johanna van der Merwe
- 1939Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)
1 further child is not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.
A life in the record
- 12 June 1894 born Born
- 8 September 1894 occasion Baptism at Calvinia
- 1 October 1917 married Married Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
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1 October 1917
event
Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn
[SRC-074] At Calvinia. Eleven children. Their second child, Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus (1924-1968), is the grandfather who brought this line south to Vredendal.
- 17 April 1953 died Died
- undated buried Buried, Williston old town cemetery
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- stood for them Johannes Paulus Kotze baptism · 8 September 1894
- stood for them Maria Magdalena Louw baptism · 8 September 1894
- stood for them Jacoba Margaretha Hendrikse baptism · 8 September 1894
- stood for them John Gabriel O'Reilly baptism · 8 September 1894
Stories
- mentioned The van der Merwes of the Hantam
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
- Baptism 8 September 1894, Calvinia, entry 321: Catharina Isabella, born 12 June 1894, child of Hubertus Bruyn and Sebella Aletta Sophia MostertDoop Register van de Ned. Ger. Gemeente CALVINIA, pages 733-734.Page 734, no. 321, under the family name BRUYN. Supplied as a screenshot on 11 Aug 2026.
Research notes
DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's great-grandmother, also missing until now. BRUIJN/BRUYN is a new surname for the project; her son Hubertus Bruyn van der MerweH carries it forward as a given name. [SRC-074]
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-398] HER BIRTH YEAR IS CORRECTED FROM 1895 TO 1894. The Calvinia baptism register, entry 321, gives "Geb. 12 Junie 1894, Ged. 8 September 1894" and names both parents, who are the parents this row already held. The day and month were always right; the year was one out, and a baptism three months after the birth leaves no room to argue it. The gravestone at Williston reads 1895-1953 and her 1953 estate file estimates 1896; neither is a birth record. SHE WAS BAPTISED AT CALVINIA on 8 September 1894, which is new, and her witnesses were Johannes Paulus Kotze, Maria Magdalena Louw, Jacoba Margaretha Hendrikse and John Gabriel O'Reilly.
These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LDQC-1QQ