Schalk Willem Burger van der Merwe (1890)
1890 – 1949
Names
- Given
- Schalk Willem Burger
- 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
- Mother
- Christina Elisabeth Nel
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 1890 born Born
- 1949 died Died
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
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-400, SRC-412] ONE OF THE FIVE CHILDREN named on their mother's 1895 death notice, all of them minors when she died at 27. This model held two of the five until now. Named there as "Schalk Willem Burger v.d. Merwe"; the FamilySearch id and the birth year come from the son's family-tree, which is a reference for this project and not evidence (SRC-411), but the CHILD is on an original document and only the dates are the tree's. No place imported.
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 L4ML-DG9