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Person PER-001636

Anna Jacoba Louw (1793-1868)

1793 – 3 March 1868 · van der Merwe line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1794-1866) (1812-12-06).

Names

Given
Anna Jacoba
Surname
Louw

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

Married
Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1794-1866) 6 December 1812
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1793 born Born
  2. 6 December 1812 married Married Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1794-1866)
  3. 7 April 1833 witness Witnessed a baptism · Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
  4. 3 March 1868 died Died

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.

Stories

What we don't know

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

  1. Baptism 7 April 1833: Schalk Willem Burger, child of Jacobus Adriaan van der Merwe and Anna Magdalena Wilhelmina Lubbe, born 23 February 1833[TO VERIFY] Dutch Reformed Church baptism register, pages 106-107. The congregation is not printed on this opening; this model already places the baptism at Clanwilliam and the date on the page agrees with it to the day.Pages 106 and 107, the entry of 7 April 1833. Supplied as a photograph of the register opening in conversation on 11 Aug 2026. [TO VERIFY] the collection, film, DGS and image number: none is visible on the photograph and per 5a-ii the reading and the citation are two separate claims. The transcription below is read off the image and is not in doubt.

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-377] SHE STOOD AS A WITNESS at the baptism of her grandson Schalk Willem Burger at Clanwilliam on 7 April 1833, beside her husband.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-410] SHE IS THE LOKENBURG WIDOW'S DAUGHTER, and that is how this family came to the farm. Her own death notice names her parents as JACOBUS ADRIAAN LOUW and MARIA CATHARINA ELIZABETH LOUW - the couple the 1820 diagram of Lokenburg calls "de Wede. Jacobus Adn. Louw" and whose inventory, MOOC8/75.66, was taken at Lokenburg in 1823 (SRC-368). Her husband died on that farm in 1866 and she died there on 3 MARCH 1868, a widow, aged about 75. HER DEATH YEAR IS CORRECTED FROM 1860 TO 1868. She was BORN IN THE BOKKEVELD, district of Calvinia, and baptised 24 September 1793 with the family at SWARTLAND. NINE CHILDREN are named with their spouses, which her husband's 1866 notice did not give: Jacobus Adriaan (dead, leaving four children); Carel Aaron (dead, leaving one adult daughter); Maria, married to Izaak Heremias Visagie; Schalk Willem Jacobus; Anna Jacoba Louisa, married to Gerrit Jacobus van Wyk; Jacobus Nel; Johanna, married to Johannes Abraham van Wyk; Francois Jacobus; and Elizabeth Susanna, married to Izaak Jacobus van der Merwe.

[12 Aug 2026] display_name read (1793-1860) while this row's own death_edtf is 1868-03-03, and S035 and S036 both give 3 March 1868. The label was corrected to the field; no date was changed.

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 LZ8C-176