Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)
24 October 1939 – 9 October 2007 · van der Merwe line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Jacobus Johannes Gideon
- Given
- Jacobus Johannes Gideon
- 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
- Mother
- Catharina Isabella Bruijn
- Brothers and sisters
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- 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
- 1935Elsje Johanna van der Merwe
A life in the record
- 24 October 1939 born Born
- 9 October 2007 died Died
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-074] Youngest of the eleven, named for his father.
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000654 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry GZ4Z-Q59; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1939 -> 1939-10-24; death_edtf 2007 -> 2007-10-09. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der MerweL (b.1939)', PER-000654 said 'Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der MerweL'.
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.
Open questions
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Duplicate candidates from the one-degree pull, settled on FamilySearch ids
priority 2 · LEAD-0035
38 people added on 31 Jul 2026 share a name AND a birth YEAR with somebody already in the model, and 32 share a name with no date at all. Are they the same people?
What would settle it A full birth or baptism date on either side of a pair. Name plus YEAR is not enough here and must not be treated as enough.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GZ4Z-Q59