Elsje Johanna van Heerden (1778-1828)

1778 – 1828 · van der Merwe line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1771-1850) (1793-01-20).

Names

Given: Elsje Johanna
Surname: van Heerden

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: Schalk Willem van Heerden (1732-1793)
Mother: Louisa van der Merwe (1737-1790)
Brothers and sisters: 1756Willem Schalk van Heerden (1756-1836)

1758Jacobus van Heerden (1758-1813)

1763Catharina Elisabeth van Heerden (1763-1788)

1766Schalk Willem van Heerden (1766-1774)

1772Martha Sophia van Heerden (1772-1836)

1773Anna Magdalena van Heerden (1773-1846)

1775Schalk Willem van Heerden (1775)

1784Louisa Maria van Heerden (1784)
Married: Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1771-1850) 20 January 1793
Children: 1794Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1794-1866)

1796Johanna Sophia van der Merwe (1796-1872)

1798Carel Petrus van der Merwe (1798-1847)

1802Louisa Jacoba van der Merwe (1802-1845)

1804Jacobus Alewyn van der Merwe (1804-1870)

A life in the record

1778 born Born
20 January 1793 married Married Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1771-1850)
1828 died Died

Stories

mentioned The van der Merwes of the Hantam

What we don't know

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, via a FamilySearch fan chart Name, dates and the FamilySearch id only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence (see PER-000760).

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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