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Form of Information of a Death, entry 13, district of Calvinia, registered 18 January 1904: Schalk Willem Burger van der Merwe

death registration (original scan) · geraadpleeg 2026-08-11

Type
death registration (original scan)
Repository
[TO VERIFY] Cape Colony civil death registration under Act No. 7 of 1894, form B. & D. 2, district of Calvinia.
Reference
No. of entry 13, registered 18 January 1904. Supplied as a photograph of the register opening in conversation on 11 Aug 2026. [TO VERIFY] the collection, film, DGS and image number: none is visible on the photograph and per 5a-ii the reading and the citation are two separate claims. The transcription below is read off the image and is not in doubt.
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2026-08-11

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TRANSCRIPTION, field by field. 1. Christian Names and Surname: "Schalk Willem Burger van der Merwe". 2. Sex: Male. 3. Usual place of Residence: CALVINIA. 4. Age: 70 years. 5. Race: European. 6. Married. 7. Occupation: GENERAL FARMER. 8. Date of Death: SEVENTEENTH JANUARY 1904. 9. Place of Death: CALVINIA. 10. Intended Place of Burial: CALVINIA CEMETERY. 11. Causes of Death: SUPPURATIVE INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 11a. Duration of last Illness: ONE MONTH. 12. Medical Man's Name: left blank. INFORMANT 13. Signature: "F. v.d. Merwe". 14. Qualification: PRESENT AT DEATH. 15. Residence: Calvinia. Registered 18 January 1904 by the Deputy Registrar, signature Steenkamp. Footnote (b), total number of children the deceased has had: NINE. THIS CONTRADICTS THE PLACE OF DEATH THIS MODEL HELD. The model had him dying on OUDE MUUR, on the compiled tree's word. The registered form gives Calvinia for his usual residence and for the place of death, and Calvinia Cemetery for the burial. Note that on these forms "Calvinia" is as often the DIVISION as the town, so this does not by itself prove he was off the farm; what it does prove is that the Oude Muur death rests on the tree alone and is no longer the better-supported reading. The date, 17 January 1904, is confirmed exactly. AGE 70 agrees with a birth on 23 February 1833: he died five weeks short of 71. The story sentence "seventy-one years on one farm" was wrong twice over and is corrected. NINE CHILDREN. This model holds one of them, PER-000762. THE INFORMANT WAS PRESENT AT THE DEATH and signs F. v.d. Merwe - on the balance of the evidence his son Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus, though the form gives no first names and this is not asserted as fact. The burial entry corroborates LEAD-0153: the grave Frans photographed in the Calvinia cemetery in August 2013 is where the registrar was told it would be.

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