Alida Maria Pitzer (widow of Marthinus Bekker, then wife of P.J. Meiring)
? – 21 November 1842 · Pitzer line · unidentified
Names
- Given
- Alida Maria
- Surname
- Pitzer
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.
A life in the record
- 21 November 1842 died Died
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- 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.
Research notes
[SRC-010, Rose Willis, Klaarstroom cameo] First wife; eleven children. The cameo gives her given name only partly - it reads '...da Maria nee Pitzer', so a name ending in -da is lost in the scan. [TO VERIFY]
*** RE-ATTRIBUTED 31 Jul 2026: NOT an Oosthuizen wife. She is the wife of PETRUS JOHANNES MEIRING (b. Swellendam 30 Nov 1799, d. 2 Jan 1876), the man Meiringspoort is named for. I attached her to Petrus OosthuizenM in error the same day. Row kept because ids are permanent, and she is worth holding: Meiring is a real figure in this district's story. ***
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.
Open questions
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Who was Petrus Oosthuizen of Klaarstroom, and how is he related?
priority 1 · LEAD-0029
The village at the centre of this project's anchor was laid out on his land in 1858-60 and originally named Petersburg for him. He is not in the model's family. Where does he sit, and is he a descendant of the root couple?
What would settle it The death notice - it names parents, spouses and surviving children.