Louisa van der Merwe (1737-1790)
1737 – 1790
Names
- Given
- Louisa
- 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
- Married
- Schalk Willem van Heerden (1732-1793) 13 October 1754
- Children
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- 1756Willem Schalk van Heerden (1756-1836)
- 1758Jacobus van Heerden (1758-1813)
- 1763Catharina Elisabeth van Heerden (1763-1788)
- 1766Schalk Willem van Heerden (1766-1774)
- 1772Martha Sophia van Heerden (1772-1836)
- 1773Anna Magdalena van Heerden (1773-1846)
- 1775Schalk Willem van Heerden (1775)
- 1778Elsje Johanna van Heerden (1778-1828)
- 1784Louisa Maria van Heerden (1784)
A life in the record
- 1737 born Born
- 13 October 1754 married Married Schalk Willem van Heerden (1732-1793)
- 1790 died Died
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.
Research notes
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-391] Imported 11 Aug 2026 as a DIRECT ANCESTOR, with a FamilySearch id. Name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED. ANOTHER VAN DER MERWE MARRYING A VAN HEERDEN, two generations before Carel Aaron married Elsje Johanna van HeerdenH. The two surnames cross at least three times in this pedigree and no kinship between the crossings is established here.
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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