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Person PER-001788

Elizabeth Maria van der Merwe (1830-1920)

1830 – 1920

Names

Given
Elizabeth Maria
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

Father
Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1771-1850)
Mother
Anna Wilhelmina Botha (1798-1845)
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 1830 born Born
  2. 1920 died Died

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.

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. A HALF-SIBLING: a child of Carel Aaron's SECOND marriage, to Anna Wilhelmina BothaM.

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 GHRS-9R9