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Persoon PER-000219

Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe

23 Oktober 1888 – 10 Oktober 1961 · van der Merwe line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Catharina Isabella Bruijn (1917-10-01).

Name

Baptismal name
Jacobus Johannes Gideon
Given
Jacobus Johannes Gideon
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
Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe
Mother
Christina Elisabeth Nel
Brothers and sisters
Married
Children

1 further child is not published, living, or not shown to be deceased. They are counted here rather than left out, so the family does not appear to stop.

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 23 Oktober 1888 gebore Born
  2. 1 Oktober 1917 getroud Married Catharina Isabella Bruijn
  3. 1 Oktober 1917 gebeurtenis Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe marries Catharina Isabella Bruijn
    [SRC-074] At Calvinia. Eleven children. Their second child, Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus (1924-1968), is the grandfather who brought this line south to Vredendal.
  4. 9 Desember 1959 getroud Married Anna Elsabe Bester
  5. 17 Desember 1960 getroud Married Catharina Helena Van Den Heever
  6. 10 Oktober 1961 oorlede Died
  7. undated begrawe Buried, Williston old town cemetery

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

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's great-grandfather on his mother's side, and missing from the model until now. Married Catharina Isabella BruijnH at CALVINIA, 1 Oct 1917. ELEVEN children. [SRC-074]

[4 Aug 2026, SRC-263] TWO DATES DISAGREE WITH THIS MODEL AND ARE RECORDED RATHER THAN RESOLVED. Janet Melville's report has him at a1b3c10d2e8f1g1h1i7j2, born 23 NOVEMBER 1888 and baptised Calvinia 2 Dec 1888, died 1950 and buried at WILLISTON. This model holds born 23 OCTOBER 1888 and died 10 OCTOBER 1961. The day of the month agrees; the month and the year of death do not, and 1950 against 1961 is eleven years. NEITHER IS PREFERRED HERE. 10 ranks a compiled genealogy below a register, so a baptism entry or a death notice settles it and nothing else should. The baptism is the cheaper of the two to find - Melville names the date and the congregation. One further detail from the same source, useful when that register is read: he was BAPTISED GILLIAM, NOT GIDEON. That is the kind of drift 5a says to keep rather than tidy away, and it may be why a search on Gideon has not found him. His wife, CATHARINA ISABELLA BRUYN (b. 1895, d. 1947, buried Williston), married him at Calvinia on 1 October 1917 and is NOT YET IN THIS MODEL. [TO VERIFY]

[9 Aug 2026] HE MARRIED FOUR TIMES, and this model already held all four before the fan chart confirmed them: CATHARINA ISABELLA BRUIJN at Calvinia 1 Oct 1917 (PER-000220, eleven children, and the mother of Frans's grandfather), then MARIA MARGARETHA MAGDALENA LOUW (PER-001304, 1905-1957), ANNA ELSABE BESTER (PER-001302, b.1897) and CATHARINA HELENA VAN DEN HEEVER (PER-001303, b.1914), the last two in December 1959 and December 1960 when he was seventy-one and seventy-two. He died in October 1961. The chart adds nothing here; this row's dates are the fuller ones.

[9 Aug 2026, SRC-348] THE FAMILYSEARCH DETAIL PAGE SIDES WITH THIS MODEL AND THAT SETTLES NOTHING. It gives born 23 OCTOBER 1888 at Calvinia and died 10 OCTOBER 1961 at Williston, against Melville's 23 November 1888 and 1950. But the family-tree this model was seeded from is itself a FamilySearch copy, so the two are one source agreeing with itself and Melville is still the only independent voice. What is new and useful: the birth carries TEN attached sources and the death THREE, so the register entry that would end it is reachable. The page also gives a CHRISTENING of JUNE 1898, ten years after the birth, where Melville has 2 December 1888. Both are recorded and neither is preferred.

[10 Aug 2026, SRC-374] A SECOND MELVILLE REPORT, this one built on him. It repeats the two disagreements SRC-263 opened - born 23 November 1888 against the 23 October held here, died 1950 against 1961 - and adds that he married 'as 29 jarige boer van KAREEKOP' and that his bride was the '23 jarige dogter van KLIPFONTEIN'. Two farm names for a couple this model had no ground for at all. It also repeats that he was baptised GILLIAM and not Gideon, at Calvinia on 2 December 1888. Ten children, every one born at Williston between 1922 and 1939.

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.

Elders

FamilySearch-profiel LDQC-T4Q