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Persoon PER-000030

Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe

8 April 1924 – 8 April 1968 · van der Merwe line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Vredendal (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 1) (195X).

Name

Baptismal name
Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus
Given
Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus
Surname
van der Merwe

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.

Naaste familie

Father
Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
Mother
Catharina Isabella Bruijn
Brothers and sisters
Married
Maria Magritha van Rensburg 17 Januarie 1949
Children

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 8 April 1924 gebore Born
  2. 17 Januarie 1949 getroud Married Maria Magritha van Rensburg
  3. 17 Januarie 1949 gebeurtenis Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe marries Maria Magritha van Rensburg at Williston
    The marriage that brings the Van der Merwe line from Brandvlei and Williston into the Prince Albert district.
  4. omstreeks 1950 gebeurtenis The van der Merwes come south to the Prince Albert district
    The maternal line does NOT come out of the Prince Albert district. Three generations sit in the northern Karoo - Van Wyksvlei (b.1891), Bokvlakte (b.1900), Calvinia (m.1917), Williston (b.1928, m.1949). It is Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe and Maria Magritha van Rensburg who move south to VRE
  5. die 1950s grond Held it, Vredendal (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 1)
  6. die 1950s grond Lived on it, Vredendal (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 1)
  7. die 1950s gebeurtenis Spreeufontein subdivided; Vredendal becomes the van der Merwe farm
    [FAMILY] dates to be documented
  8. 8 April 1968 gebeurtenis Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe dies at 44, on his own birthday
    Left Maria Magritha van Rensburg a widow with three children aged 18, 14 and 11.
  9. 8 April 1968 oorlede Died

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Stories

Ander van dieselfde naam

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

Wat ons nie weet nie

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Bronne

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views

Navorsingsnotas

Frans's maternal grandfather. Born Brandvlei; died on his 44th birthday. NOTE three men of this exact name in the tree (1863, 1869, 1924) - this is

[31 Jul 2026] [FAMILY] Came from the farm BIESIES in the Calvinia district (PLC-000036) - Frans's own words, "frans came from farm bieses in cavinia". That refines 'born Brandvlei' rather than replacing it: Brandvlei is in the Calvinia district, so one is the ground and the other the town it registered at. He married Maria Magritha van RensburgH (PER-000013) at Williston on 17 Jan 1949 and died on his 44th birthday, 8 Apr 1968; she was widowed that day and later married Gert Annis 'Tokkie' Marincowitz (PER-000007), who is therefore Frans's STEP-grandfather and not a blood ancestor.

[4 Aug 2026, SRC-263] PLACED IN THE PUBLISHED VAN DER MERWE GENEALOGY. Janet Melville's descendant report gives him the descent code a1b3c10d2e8f1g1h1i7j2k2, which ties this line to the Van der Merwe stamvader through Schalk Willem Burger van der MerweM of Ou Muur, Calvinia (1833-1904). It confirms what this model already holds - born Williston 8 Apr 1924, died Prince Albert 8 Apr 1968, on the same day of the year - and adds one fact the model did not carry: he is recorded as LIVING AT VREDENDAL, PRINCE ALBERT (PAR-000006). That residence is the join between a Calvinia genealogy and this project.

[10 Aug 2026, SRC-374] HIS BIRTHPLACE IS DISPUTED AND BOTH READINGS STAND. Melville has him born at WILLISTON on 8 April 1924; this model holds Brandvlei, from the family-tree. All ten of his siblings are recorded born at Williston, which makes Williston the likelier of the two, and Melville works from registers. Neither is the register itself. LEAD-0155.

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

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Elders

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