Johann Georg Meyer
6 December 1738 – before 1802-03-08 · Meyer line
Names
- Given
- Johann Georg
- Surname
- Meyer
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
- Daniel Meyer
- Mother
- Anna Maria Fischer
- Married
- Johanna Catharina van der Nest 9 September 1770
- Children
A life in the record
- before 1802-03-08 died Died
- 6 December 1738 born Born
- 9 September 1770 married Married Johanna Catharina van der Nest
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
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: father/mother Cornelis Floris Johannes MeyerH (PER-000034). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
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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