Catharina van Dyk
15 August 1724 – 1783/
Names
- Given
- Smit
- Surname
- van Dyk
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
- Married
- Jacobus Smith 14 August 1746
- Children
- Johanna Jacomina Smit
A life in the record
- 15 August 1724 born Born
- 14 August 1746 married Married Jacobus Smith
- 1783/ died Died
What we don't know
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- 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
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: parent of Johanna Jacomina SmitH. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
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
FamilySearch profile LWBF-2DK