Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe (b.1939)

24 Oktober 1939 – 9 Oktober 2007 · van der Merwe line

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: Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe
Mother: Catharina Isabella Bruijn
Brothers and sisters: 1921Sybilla Aletta Sophia van der Merwe

1924Frans Jacobus Wilhelmus van der Merwe

1925Christina Elizabeth van der Merwe

1927Catharina Isabella van der Merwe (b.1927)

1927Hester Maria Josina van der Merwe

1929Hendrieka Gertruida van der Merwe

1932Hubertus Bruyn van der Merwe

1935Elsje Johanna van der Merwe

'n Lewe in die rekord

24 Oktober 1939 gebore Born
9 Oktober 2007 oorlede Died

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.

Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der Merwe

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-074] Youngest of the eleven, named for his father.

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000654 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry GZ4Z-Q59; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1939 -> 1939-10-24; death_edtf 2007 -> 2007-10-09. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der MerweL (b.1939)', PER-000654 said 'Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der MerweL'.

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.

Oop vrae

Duplicate candidates from the one-degree pull, settled on FamilySearch ids prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0035
38 people added on 31 Jul 2026 share a name AND a birth YEAR with somebody already in the model, and 32 share a name with no date at all. Are they the same people?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A full birth or baptism date on either side of a pair. Name plus YEAR is not enough here and must not be treated as enough.

Elders

FamilySearch-profiel GZ4Z-Q59