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Persoon PER-000220

Catharina Isabella Bruijn

12 Junie 1894 – 17 April 1953 · van der Merwe line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (1917-10-01).

Name

Baptismal name
Catharina Isabella
Given
Catharina Isabella
Surname
Bruijn

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.

Naaste familie

Father
Hubertus Bruijn
Mother
Sibella Aletta Sophia Mostert
Married
Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe 1 Oktober 1917
Children

1 further child is not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 12 Junie 1894 gebore Born
  2. 8 September 1894 geleentheid Doop te Calvinia
  3. 1 Oktober 1917 getroud Married Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
  4. 1 Oktober 1917 gebeurtenis Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn
    [SRC-074] At Calvinia. Eleven children. Their second child, Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus (1924-1968), is the grandfather who brought this line south to Vredendal.
  5. 17 April 1953 oorlede Died
  6. undated begrawe Buried, Williston old town cemetery

Wie by hulle gestaan het

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

Wat ons nie weet nie

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

Bronne

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
  2. Baptism 8 September 1894, Calvinia, entry 321: Catharina Isabella, born 12 June 1894, child of Hubertus Bruyn and Sebella Aletta Sophia MostertDoop Register van de Ned. Ger. Gemeente CALVINIA, pages 733-734.Page 734, no. 321, under the family name BRUYN. Supplied as a screenshot on 11 Aug 2026.

Navorsingsnotas

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's great-grandmother, also missing until now. BRUIJN/BRUYN is a new surname for the project; her son Hubertus Bruyn van der MerweH carries it forward as a given name. [SRC-074]

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-398] HER BIRTH YEAR IS CORRECTED FROM 1895 TO 1894. The Calvinia baptism register, entry 321, gives "Geb. 12 Junie 1894, Ged. 8 September 1894" and names both parents, who are the parents this row already held. The day and month were always right; the year was one out, and a baptism three months after the birth leaves no room to argue it. The gravestone at Williston reads 1895-1953 and her 1953 estate file estimates 1896; neither is a birth record. SHE WAS BAPTISED AT CALVINIA on 8 September 1894, which is new, and her witnesses were Johannes Paulus Kotze, Maria Magdalena Louw, Jacoba Margaretha Hendrikse and John Gabriel O'Reilly.

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.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Elders

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