Maria Magritha van der Merwe

22 December 1949 – ? · van der Merwe line

Names

Baptismal name: Maria Magritha
Called: Marie
Given: Maria Magritha
Surname: van der Merwe

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Photographs

A family group on a sofa, all eight of the household. MARIA MAGRITHA "MARIE" VAN DER MERWE sits at the left, then... — A family group on a sofa, all eight of the household. MARIA MAGRITHA "MARIE" VAN DER MERWE sits at the left, then MARIA MAGRITHA "RIA" VAN RENSBURG, then GERT ANNIS "TOKKIE" OOSTHUIZEN MARINCOWITZ in a dark suit, and FRANCES JEANNE DUMINY MARINCOWITZ at the right. Standing behind the sofa, from the left: CHRISTIAAN WILHELM "CHRISJAN" JOUBERT MARINCOWITZ, JACOBUS GIDEON "DEON" VAN DER MERWE in the centre, and GERHARD JAN OOSTHUIZEN MARINCOWITZ, whom the family calls OOSTHUIZEN, at the right. CATHARINA "KARIEN" VAN DER MERWE sits on the carpet at the front in a striped dress. — Family collection

The same family group of eight, colourised. — Family collection

Three generations around this person

Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe 1888 Catharina Isabella Bruijn 1894

Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe 1924

Petrus Gideon van Rensburg 1891 Maria Margaretha Walters 1900

Maria Magritha van Rensburg 1928

Maria Magritha van der Merwe 1949 Johannes Petrus van Tonder 1948

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Immediate family

Father: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
Mother: Maria Magritha van Rensburg
Brothers and sisters: Catharina van der Merwe, Jacobus Gideon "Deon" van der Merwe
Married: Johannes Petrus van Tonder

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

22 December 1949 born Born

What we don't know

No death date is recorded.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

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Research notes

Frans's maternal aunt, eldest of the three

[16 Aug 2026, FAMILY] CALLED MARIE, from Frans placing MED-000111 - the everyday form of Maria Magritha, and the way she is told apart from her mother Maria Magritha "Ria" van Rensburg, who carries the same two names.

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