Hendrieka Gertruida van der Merwe

12 May 1929 – 19 August 1991 · van der Merwe line

Names

Baptismal name: Hendrieka Gertruida
Given: Hendrieka Gertruida
Surname: van der Merwe

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Photographs

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. — 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

Hendrieka Gertruida van der Merwe 1929

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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)

1927Hester Maria Josina van der Merwe

1932Hubertus Bruyn van der Merwe

1935Elsje Johanna van der Merwe

1939Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)

A life in the record

12 May 1929 born Born
19 August 1991 died Died

What we don't know

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Research notes

[SRC-074] Sister of PER-000030.

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Open questions

Was the Nel third name Gilliam or Gideon, and who was Hendrika Gertruida Visser? priority P2 · LEAD-0343
The Calvinia register of 2 December 1888 (SRC-629) writes GILLIAM for both the child Kola (PER-000219) and his maternal grandfather (PER-001816), where this model has carried GIDEON for both from compiled sources. Which is the baptismal form? And the fourth witness, HENDRIKA GERTRUIDA VISSER, is held nowhere here, yet Kola named a daughter Hendrieka Gertruida in 1929 - who was she to this family?

What would settle it The grandfather's own baptism entry for the name; any register naming Hendrika Gertruida Visser beside a Nel, a van Wyk or a van der Merwe.

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