Elsje Johanna van der Merwe
19 January 1935 – ? · van der Merwe line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Elsje Johanna
- Given
- Elsje Johanna
- 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
- Catharina Isabella Bruijn
- Brothers and sisters
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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
- 1939Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)
- Married
- Alfred Eckley Dykman 19 January 1957
A life in the record
- 19 January 1935 born Born
- 19 January 1957 married Married Alfred Eckley Dykman
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 2 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-074] Sister of PER-000030. FAMILYSEARCH CARRIES HER TWICE among the eleven children - GZDW-7GN (living) and GLZR-KC5 (deceased), both 1935. The family-tree has only one. A duplicate on their side, worth merging when Frans is next in the tree.
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 GZDW-7GN