Jacobus Gideon "Deon" van der Merwe

4 April 1957 – ? · van der Merwe line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) (202X).

residence Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) 1957-04-04

Names

Baptismal name: Jacobus Gideon
Called: Deon
Given: Jacobus Gideon
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.

Immediate family

Father: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
Mother: Maria Magritha van Rensburg
Brothers and sisters: Maria Magritha van der Merwe, Catharina van der Merwe
Married: Elna Deborah Bezuidenhout

3 further children are 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.

A life in the record

4 April 1957 born Born
4 April 1957 land Lived on it, Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
the 2020s land Held it, Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)

Ground they are on record on

Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) held it · the 2020s
Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1) lived on it · 4 April 1957

What we don't know

No death date is recorded.

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

Research notes

Frans's maternal uncle; owns Vredendal today. [FAMILY] "Deon" = Gideon

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.

Elders

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