Isaac van der Merwe (1745-1782)
1745 – 1782 · van der Merwe line
Names
- Given
- Isaac
- Surname
- van der Merwe
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Immediate family
- Brothers and sisters
- Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1735-1778)
A life in the record
- 1745 born Born
- 1782 died Died
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
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Research notes
[30 Sep 2026, SRC-702] From the FamilySearch detail view A BROTHER OF PER-001657, and he has ground. MOOC8/18.59 of 5 April 1782 is the estate of his widow MARIA MAGDALENA BURGER - the record notes she herself died ab intestato on 15 May 1782, five weeks later - and it is headed 'boedel van Maria Magdalena Burger weduwe ISAAK VAN DER MERWEN ISAAKSOON'. Isaak son of Isaak: the patronymic fits this man and not his father. It holds 'Een plaas genamt DE SCHAP REVIER' at Rd 333 3/8, three male slaves, one woman and a child, and two hundred and forty cattle. Recorded here as a person because 6 admits the siblings of a direct ancestor; the farm is NOT given a parcel row, because nothing yet ties it to this district or to the Koup. [TO VERIFY]
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Elders
FamilySearch profile LWXV-24L