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Person PER-001244

Maria Johanna Catharina Merincowitz

No dates recorded

No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1921, because their mother born 1879, at most 42 at the birth. That rests on an assumption about ordinary childbearing ages, not on a document. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

Names

Surname
Merincowitz

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
Thomas Frederick Marincowitz
Mother
Maria Catharina Hendrina Cilliers
Brothers and sisters

What we don't know

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: child of Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

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Elders

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