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Person PER-001787

Louisa Jacoba van der Merwe (1802-1845)

1802 – 1845

Names

Given
Louisa Jacoba
Surname
van der Merwe

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
Carel Aaron van der Merwe (1771-1850)
Mother
Elsje Johanna van Heerden (1778-1828)
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 1802 born Born
  2. 1845 died Died

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

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-391] Imported 11 Aug 2026 as a SIBLING of a direct ancestor, with a FamilySearch id so the row can be re-checked against the live tree. Name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence. SHE MARRIED HENDRIK JOHANNES VISAGIE. Her daughter Hendrina Maria Johanna stood at the 1863 font beside her cousin; her daughter Maria Magdalena married Sybrand Albertus Strauss and is the woman FamilySearch wrongly marries to Schalk Willem Burger (FIX-0004). SRC-386, SRC-388.

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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