Elsje Johanna van der Merwe

19 January 1935 – ? · van der Merwe line

Names

Baptismal name: Elsje Johanna
Given: Elsje Johanna
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

Elsje Johanna van der Merwe 1935 Alfred Eckley Dykman m. 19 January 1957

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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

1929Hendrieka Gertruida van der Merwe

1932Hubertus Bruyn van der Merwe

1939Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)
Married: Alfred Eckley Dykman 19 January 1957

A life in the record

19 January 1935 born Born
19 January 1957 married Married Alfred Eckley Dykman

Others of the same name

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What we don't know

No death date is recorded.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
2 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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Research notes

[SRC-074] Sister of PER-000030. FAMILYSEARCH CARRIES HER TWICE among the eleven children - GZDW-7GN (living) and GLZR-KC5 (deceased), both 1935. The family-tree has only one. A duplicate on their side, worth merging when Frans is next in the tree.

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Elders

FamilySearch profile GZDW-7GN