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Persoon PER-001657

Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1735-1778)

voor 1735-01-09 – 30 April 1778 · van der Merwe line

Name

Baptismal name
Schalk Willem
Given
Schalk Willem
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

Children
Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1771-1850)

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. voor 1735-01-09 gebore Born
  2. 30 April 1778 oorlede Died

Stories

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

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

Navorsingsnotas

[9 Aug 2026, SRC-348] A DIRECT ANCESTOR, admitted under scope rule R3, which takes direct ancestry back unbounded. Christened at PAARL in the Drakenstein on 9 January 1735, so born before that date, and died at TULBAGH on 30 April 1778. He is the generation above Carel Aaron (PER-001639, b. 1771), who was seven when he died. THE NAMING PATTERN AGREES: Carel Aaron's first son was called Schalk Willem (PER-001635, b. 1794), which is what the vernoemingspatroon does with a father's father, 5b. That is corroboration and it is not proof, and the link itself is [TREE] rather than documentary. He extends the Boland end of this line from Piketberg back to Paarl and Tulbagh.

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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