Elizabeth Christina van der Merwe (1894)

1894 – ?

Names

Given: Elizabeth Christina
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: Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
Mother: Christina Elisabeth Nel
Brothers and sisters: 1887Elsje Johanna van der Merwe (1887-1938)

1888Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe

1890Schalk Willem Burger van der Merwe (1890)

1892Anna Jacoba van der Merwe (1892)

A life in the record

1894 born Born

What we don't know

No death date is recorded.
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 "Elizabeth Christina 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.

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Elders

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