Hester Maria Josina van der Merwe

30 September 1927 – 2 May 2010 · van der Merwe line

Names

Baptismal name: Hester Maria Josina
Given: Hester Maria Josina
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: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
Mother: Catharina Isabella Bruijn
Brothers and sisters: 1921Sybilla Aletta Sophia van der Merwe

1924Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe

1925Christina Elizabeth van der Merwe

1927Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927)

1929Hendrieka Gertruida van der Merwe

1932Hubertus Bruyn van der Merwe

1935Elsje Johanna van der Merwe

1939Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)
Married: Gustav Karl Herbert Einfeldt 31 March 1956

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

30 September 1927 born Born
31 March 1956 married Married Gustav Karl Herbert Einfeldt
2 May 2010 died Died

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

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

Research notes

[SRC-074] Sister of PER-000030 and twin of Catharina Isabella (PER-000223) - same birth date in two independent sources.

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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