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Source SRC-380

Baptism 22 May 1887, entry 407: Elsje Johanna, born 28 March 1887, child of Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe and Christina Elizabeth Nel

church register (original scan) · consulted 2026-08-11

Type
church register (original scan)
Repository
[TO VERIFY] Dutch Reformed Church doop-register, pages 451-452, division of Calvinia.
Reference
Pages 451 and 452, entry 407, 22 May 1887. Supplied as a photograph of the register opening in conversation on 11 Aug 2026. [TO VERIFY] the collection, film, DGS and image number: none is visible on the photograph and per 5a-ii the reading and the citation are two separate claims. The transcription below is read off the image and is not in doubt.
Consulted
2026-08-11

The citation as it was given

TRANSCRIPTION. "Mei 22de - 407. Het Kind Elsje Johanna, geb Maart 28 1887. Vader Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe. Moeder Christina Elizabeth Nel. Getuigen: Schalk Willem Burger van der Merwe, Maria Margaretha Visagie, Jacobus Johannes Gideon Nel, Anna Jacoba van Wyk." A DAUGHTER THIS MODEL DID NOT HOLD. Jacobus Johannes Gideon (PER-000219), born 1888, was the only child of this marriage in the record until now. THE NAME IS THE PATTERN WORKING. Elsje Johanna is her father's mother (PER-001630). Two years later the son is christened JACOBUS JOHANNES GIDEON, and Jacobus Johannes Gideon Nel stands at this font - the mother's father, or a close kinsman of his. So the son's name, which this project has carried for a year without knowing where it came from, comes off the Nel side. THE WITNESSES ARE THE TWO GRANDFATHERS AND TWO WOMEN. Schalk Willem Burger van der Merwe is PER-001629, the child's paternal grandfather, standing at his granddaughter's baptism at 54. MARIA MARGARETHA VISAGIE, paired with him in the list, is not identified and is worth attention: a Visagie woman standing beside Schalk Willem Burger in 1887, five years after his wife died, is either a second wife or another of the collateral Visagies who appear right across this family (see SRC-378). It does NOT revive the Anna Maria Visagie reading, which the 1863 register has already disposed of. LEAD-0158. On the same opening, entry 409 carries a witness "Carel Aron van der Merwe J.J. zoon", an adult of that name in 1887; PER-001639, the Carel Aaron this line descends from, died in 1850. A later namesake, not him.

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