Japie Kriel

No dates recorded

Names

Surname: Kriel

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: Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927) 11 May 1953

1 further child is not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.

A life in the record

11 May 1953 married Married Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927)

What we don't know

No birth date is recorded.
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 Catharina Isabella van der MerweH (b.1927). 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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