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Person PER-001866

Aletta van der Linde (b.1624)

1624 – ?

Names

Given
Aletta
Surname
van der Linde

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

Children
Willem Schalkz van der Merwe (d.1716)

A life in the record

  1. 1624 born Born

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

[20 Aug 2026, SRC-533 + the private tree] DIRECT ANCESTOR, admitted under scope rule R3 which takes direct ancestry back unbounded. TWO SOURCES THAT HAVE NEVER MET AGREE: Laura Mitchell's 'Belongings' (Columbia UP, 2008) ch. 5 tells this family's story in prose, and the private tree carries the dates. Neither cites the other. The stamvader's mother, from the tree only. NOT IN MITCHELL. [TO VERIFY]

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