Willem Meijer (baptism witness, 1769)
active 1769 · Meyer line · unidentified
Verbinding met die Koup
Het deelgeneem aan iets wat hier aangeteken is: Jan de Bruijn baptised (1769-04-16).
Name
- Given
- Willem
- Surname
- Meijer
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.
'n Lewe in die rekord
-
16 April 1769
gebeurtenis
Jan de Bruijn baptised
Son of Hendrik de Bruijn and Anna Loots; witnesses Willem Meijer and Elisabeth Loots. Fifty years later he is holding Rondabel in the Koup and married to an Oosthuizen. The congregation is not named on the page.
- 16 April 1769 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop · Jan de Bruin
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.
- they stood for
Jan de Bruin baptism · 16 April 1769
on Rondabel
Stories
- mentioned Twee plase wat Vrolykheid heet
Wat ons nie weet nie
- Geen geboortedatum is aangeteken nie.
- Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
- Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.
- Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Bronne
- Baptism of Jan de Bruijn, 16 April 1769 (register ANNO 1769, entry 20) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WTLN, cc=1478678, image 1 of 1; pages 90-91, ANNO 1769, entry no. 20
Navorsingsnotas
[31 Jul 2026 SRC-168] Witness at Jan de BruinM's baptism, 16 Apr 1769. NOT matched to the Meyers already in this model - they are a nineteenth-century group and nothing connects them.
[1 Aug 2026] `line` normalised from Meijer to Meyer. line_migration groups by that column, so two spellings make two phantom families out of one - which has already happened once in this project. The document spelling stays in `surname`, per 5a: spelling drift is evidence, not noise, and it is recorded where it belongs.
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.