Elsje Johanna van der Merwe (1835-1882)

31 Maart 1835 – 19 Maart 1882 · van der Merwe line

Name

Given: Elsje Johanna
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.

Naaste familie

Father: Jacobus Alewyn van der Merwe (1804-1870)
Mother: Elisabeth Maria Theron (1805-1855)
Married: Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904) 27 Desember 1854
Children: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe

'n Lewe in die rekord

31 Maart 1835 gebore Born
27 Desember 1854 getroud Married Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
1863 geleentheid Baptism of their child, Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe at Calvinia
19 Maart 1882 oorlede Died

Stories

mentioned Die van der Merwes van die Hantam

Ander van dieselfde naam

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.

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
2 other people 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.

Navorsingsnotas

[TREE, via a FamilySearch fan chart Name, dates and the FamilySearch id only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence (see PER-000760).

[10 Aug 2026, SRC-373] THE SECOND WIFE. Schalk Willem Burger van der MerweM married Anna Maria VisagieM first; she died in 1853. Janet Melville places PER-000762 with this marriage - "hy is van die 2de vrou" - against a Calvinia baptism entry that names the first wife as his mother.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-378] THE REGISTER SETTLES IT IN HER FAVOUR. The 1863 baptism entry names the mother of PER-000762 as "Elsje Johanna v.d. Merwe", in full, and Anna Maria VisagieM appears nowhere in the entry. She is his mother. LEAD-0152 is closed. Her granddaughter, baptised in 1887, was named for her.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-405, SRC-406] SHE HAS DATES AND PLACES NOW, from two original documents. BORN 31 MARCH 1835 ON WELBEDACHT in the Calvinia district, baptised at Clanwilliam on 4 October, daughter of Jacobus Alewyn van der MerweM and Elisabeth Maria TheronM. Her grandfather CAREL AARON and his second wife ANNA WILHELMINA BOTHA stood at that font, together with the Visagie couple. MARRIED ON WELBEDACHT, the farm she was born on, on 27 December 1854, aged 18 and of ACHTERZAND. DIED 19 MARCH 1882 ON OUDE MUUR, aged 47, and the notice calls her occupation Farmer and values the estate at about 5,000 pounds. TWELVE CHILDREN are named on her death notice. Her husband's own form, twenty-two years later, says nine.

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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