Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1817-1838)
1817 – 1838
Names
- Given
- Carel Aaron
- 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
- Anna Jacoba Louw (1793-1868)
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1813Jacobus Adriaan van der Merwe (1813-1855)
- 1814Jacobus Adriaan van der Merwe (1814-1868)
- 1815Elsje Johanna Jacoba van der Merwe (1815-1860)
- 1819Maria Catharina Elizabeth van der Merwe (1819)
- 1822Schalk Willem Jacobus van der Merwe (1822-1910)
- 1823Anna Jacoba Louisa van der Merwe (1823-1893)
- 1825Petrus Johannes Jacobus van der Merwe (1825)
- 1827Johanna Christina Adriana van der Merwe (1827-1898)
- 1829Jacobus Nel van der Merwe (1829-1907)
- 1832Francois Jacobus van der Merwe (1832-1903)
- 1836Elizabeth Susanna Louw van der Merwe (1836-1892)
A life in the record
- 1817 born Born
- 1838 died Died
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 dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person 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
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-391] Imported 11 Aug 2026 as a SIBLING of a direct ancestor, with a FamilySearch id so the row can be re-checked against the live tree. Name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence. NAMED ON HIS FATHER'S 1866 DEATH NOTICE (SRC-346), which lists nine children in order; this is one of them. That is an original document and it is why this row is safe to make. Entered there as "overleden en meerderjarige dochter nalatende" - dead, leaving an adult daughter.
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
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