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Person PER-000223

Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927)

30 September 1927 – 16 April 2008 · van der Merwe line

Names

Baptismal name
Catharina Isabella
Called
Rina
Given
Catharina Isabella
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.

Photographs

Catharina Isabella van der Merwe, born Bruijn (1894-1953), called KITTIE, on a farm stoep with four of her...
Catharina Isabella van der Merwe, born Bruijn (1894-1953), called KITTIE, on a farm stoep with four of her daughters. She sits at the right in a pale blouse with a corsage at the throat. Three of the girls wear the same white shirt and dark braces - a school gymslip - and the youngest, in a white dress with a bow in her hair, sits on her sister's lap. Behind them a shuttered window and the underside of a corrugated roof. — Family collection
The same photograph of Kittie Bruijn and four of her daughters, colourised.
The same photograph of Kittie Bruijn and four of her daughters, colourised. — Family collection
Ten grown brothers and sisters crowded together in the sun against a wire fence, the eldest at the back. FRANS...
Ten grown brothers and sisters crowded together in the sun against a wire fence, the eldest at the back. FRANS JACOBUS WILHELMUS VAN DER MERWE (1924-1968) is among them - the children of Kola van der Merwe and Kittie Bruijn. Three of the ten are men. The women are in sleeveless summer dresses, two of them in wide headbands, one in cropped trousers; the man at the front stands with his arms folded in a white knitted shirt. — Family collection
The same photograph of the ten van der Merwe brothers and sisters, colourised.
The same photograph of the ten van der Merwe brothers and sisters, colourised. — Family collection

Three generations around this person

Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe 1863 Christina Elisabeth Nel 1867
Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe 1888
Hubertus Bruijn 1855 Sibella Aletta Sophia Mostert 1863
Catharina Isabella Bruijn 1894
Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927) 1927 Japie Kriel m. 11 May 1953

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Immediate family

Father
Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
Mother
Catharina Isabella Bruijn
Brothers and sisters
Married
Japie Kriel 11 May 1953

1 further child is 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

  1. 30 September 1927 born Born
  2. 11 May 1953 married Married Japie Kriel
  3. 16 April 2008 died Died

What we don't know

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Research notes

[SRC-074] Sister of PER-000030, named for her mother. TWIN: she and Hester Maria Josina (PER-000224) share the birth date 30 September 1927 in both FamilySearch and the family-tree.

[17 Aug 2026, TREE] NOEMNAAM FROM THE FAMILY TREE EXPORTS, which carry alternate NAME records typed aka. Taken only where the alternate is a SHORT SINGLE NAME that is not a spelling variant of the formal one - the sweep turned up 26 candidates and most were spelling drift (Strijdom for Strydom, Izaac for Isaac), which 5a keeps as evidence but which is not a noemnaam. She is one of Kola and Kittie van der Merwe's twins, born 30 September 1927, and appears in MED-000061.

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Elders

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