Hester Johanna Burger (1792-1852)
1792 – 1852 · van der Merwe line
Names
- Given
- Hester Johanna
- Surname
- Burger
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
- Frans Jacobus Lubbe (1786-1859)
- Children
- Anna Magdalena Lubbe (1815-1860)
A life in the record
- 1792 born Born
- 7 April 1833 witness Witnessed a baptism · Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
- 1852 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.
- they stood for
Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904) baptism · 7 April 1833
stood at 1 other occasion
Stories
- mentioned The van der Merwes of the Hantam
- mentioned Four grandparents, four countries
What we don't know
- 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.
Sources
- 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 on 7 April 1833, and the child was christened SCHALK WILLEM BURGER. This is the register entry that puts her surname into the van der Merwe line, and it is no longer an inference from the name alone.
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 L44D-SFG