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Person PER-001817

Anna Jacoba van Wyk (1842-1925)

1842 – 1925

Names

Given
Anna Jacoba
Surname
van Wyk

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 Nel (1836-1916)
Children
Christina Elisabeth Nel

A life in the record

  1. 1842 born Born
  2. 1925 died Died

Stories

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] A DIRECT ANCESTOR, named on ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS rather than taken from a tree: she is named as the mother of Christina Elizabeth Nel on the 1867 baptism entry (SRC-399) and on the 1895 death notice (SRC-400), AND she stood as a witness beside her husband at her granddaughter's baptism in 1887 (SRC-380). Her granddaughter Anna Jacoba, born before 1895, is named for her. NO FAMILYSEARCH ID YET, which is a gap worth closing - the standing rule for imports on this project is that a row should carry one so it can be re-checked against the live tree. Name and the family link only; no dates and no place beyond what the documents give.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-412] FAMILYSEARCH ID AND DATES ADDED. This row was made this morning from a baptism index and a death notice, neither of which carries an id, and the gap was flagged on it. The son's family-tree closes it: 9F3V-N1F, 1842-1925. They married at CALVINIA on 11 JANUARY 1858 and had thirteen children.

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

FamilySearch profile 9F3V-N1F