Opgaafrol opening, seventeen households of van der Merwes, van Rensburgs and their kin: film 008145396, image 498
opgaafrol page · an original record · consulted 2026-09-30
- Type
- opgaafrol page
- Repository
- Cape Archives J-series opgaafrolle. Digitised by FamilySearch.
- Reference
- ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK8-P99R-4, film/DGS 008145396, image 498 of 592. The viewer's own Film/Digital Note reads 'B. J365-J368 1838-1840 Tulbagh Landdrosdistrik B. J369-J372 1805-1807', and FamilySearch offers no citation of its own for the image.
- Consulted
- 2026-09-30
The citation as it was given
Supplied by , and read on screen. TRANSCRIBED, head of household then wife: 1 Andries Salomons / Johanna Dorothea Wolfaard. 2 Johannes Petrus Steijlen / Anna Sophia Jansen. 3 Fredrik Krotz / Jacoba Kruger. 4 Philippus Erasmus / SUSANNA OOSTHUIZEN. 5 Christiaan Gabriel Theron / Maria Magdalena van Steeden. 6 Schalk Willem Reenaar / Anna Maria van der Merwe. 7 Barend Reenaar / Elsje Jacoba van der Merwe. 8 PETRUS VAN DER MERWE PIETERSZ / Elsje Lubbe. 9 Carel Joh: van der Merwe / Johanna Maria Nel. 10 Willem Schalk van der Merwe / Anna Elisabeth Jacobs. 11 Hend: Petrus Janse van Rensburg. 12 Willem Janse van Rensburg. 13 Sophia van der Merwe, wed: Erasmus Erasmus. 14 Schalk Daniel Jacobus van der Merwe. 15 Maria van der Merwe, wed: Sebastiaan Wolfaard. 16 Jeorg Sebastiaan Wolfaard / Elsje van Steeden. 17 Joh: Rasmus van der Merwe / Aletta van der Merwe. The page continues past 17 and was not read further. *** WHICH VOLUME THIS IS HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED AND IT DECIDES EVERYTHING. *** The film holds two blocks, one of 1838-1840 and one of TULBAGH 1805-1807, and image 498 of 592 sits about five-sixths through, which SUGGESTS the Tulbagh block and does not show it. No title leaf has been read. [TO VERIFY] IF IT IS TULBAGH 1805-1807, IT SITS INSIDE THE WINDOW EVT-000295 FIXES for this family's crossing from the Boland into the Hantam - between Schalk Willem's birth at Elsenbosch in February 1794 and his brother's at Tygerhoek about May 1808 - and a household of Carel Aaron's (PER-001639) should be findable in it. He is NOT among the seventeen read here. TWO THINGS ON THE PAGE ARE WORTH KEEPING EITHER WAY. Entry 4 marries an OOSTHUIZEN into this van der Merwe neighbourhood, and entry 8 carries a patronymic, PIETERSZ, of the kind that has separated same-named men repeatedly in this record. NO PERSON ROW IS CREATED from any of it: the district and year are unfixed, and 9 forbids matching a name without a date and a place.
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