Elisabeth Maria Theron (1805-1855)
15 October 1805 – 31 January 1855 · van der Merwe line
Names
- Given
- Elisabeth Maria
- Surname
- Theron
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
- Wouter Theron (1777-1840)
- Mother
- Hester Marais
- Married
- Jacobus Alewyn van der Merwe (1804-1870) 7 November 1824
A life in the record
- 15 October 1805 born Born
- 7 November 1824 married Married Jacobus Alewyn van der Merwe (1804-1870)
- 31 January 1855 died Died
Stories
- mentioned The van der Merwes of the Hantam
- mentioned Four grandparents, four countries
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.
Research notes
[TREE, via a FamilySearch fan chart Name, dates and the FamilySearch id only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence (see PER-000760).
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-409] BORN 15 OCTOBER 1805 and baptised at TULBAGH on 9 February 1806, daughter of WOUTER THERON and HESTER MARAIS - which is the parentage this model already held, now confirmed on the register rather than on the tree. Six witnesses, among them a Johannes Petrus van der Merwe, eighteen years before she married one. SHE DIED ON 31 JANUARY 1855 AT WELBEDACHT in the Calvinia district, the farm her husband was known by. Her daughter was married on it in December of the same year, eleven months after she died.
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Elders
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