Anna Elsabe Bester

31 August 1897 – ?

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (1959-12-09).

Names

Given: Anna Elsebe Warnicker
Surname: Bester

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 Johannes Gideon van der Merwe 9 December 1959

A life in the record

31 August 1897 born Born
9 December 1959 married Married Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe

What we don't know

No death date is recorded.
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: spouse of Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der MerweL. 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

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