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Source SRC-406

Death notice: Elsje Johanna van der Merwe, died 19 March 1882 at Ouemuur, district of Calvinia, with twelve children named

death notice (original scan) · consulted 2026-08-11

Type
death notice (original scan)
Repository
Master of the High Court probate records, "South Africa, Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990".
Reference
Filed 29 March 1882, no. 3500. Supplied as a screenshot on 11 Aug 2026.
Consulted
2026-08-11

The citation as it was given

TRANSCRIPTION. 1. Name: Elsje Johanna van der Merwe. 2. Birth-place: WELBEDACHT, DIST. CALVINIA. 3. Parents: Jacobus Alewyn van der Merwe, Elizabeth Maria van der Merwe [born Theron]. 4. Age: FORTY-SEVEN YEARS. 5. Condition in life: Farmer. 6. Married. 7. Day of decease: THE 19TH OF MARCH 1882. 8. At what house: OUEMUUR, DIST. CALVINIA. 10. Property: movable and immovable, value about 5000 pounds. 9. TWELVE CHILDREN, in the order the form gives them: Jacobus Adriaan; Anna Magdalena Wilhelmina; Jacobus Alewyn; Johannes Jacobus Wilhelmus; Carel Aron; Elsje Johanna; Schalk Willem Burger; Elsje Johanna Maria; Hendrik Jacobus; Izaak Johannes; Elizabeth Maria; Walter Petrus Burger. Some are marked minor and some major. THE FOURTH NAME IS ALMOST CERTAINLY THIS PROJECT'S DIRECT ANCESTOR and it is not written the way he is written anywhere else. PER-000762 was born in March 1863 and was nineteen and alive when this was filed, so he must be on the list; "Johannes Jacobus Wilhelmus" is the only entry he can be, and every other record calls him FRANS Jacobus Wilhelmus. Either the clerk wrote Johannes for Frans or the reading of the hand is wrong. Recorded as it stands. [TO VERIFY] HER HUSBAND'S 1904 DEATH FORM SAYS HE HAD NINE CHILDREN and this one names twelve, twenty-two years earlier. Both are what an informant told a clerk. Three of the twelve dying between 1882 and 1904 would reconcile them exactly, and so would a miscount on either sheet. SHE DIED ON OUDE MUUR, which this model already held as the family's ground, and she was born on WELBEDACHT, which is where she was married in 1854. Her estate was worth about 5,000 pounds.

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