Jacob Willem van der Merwe

active 1840

Naam

Van: Van der Merwe

Die formele doopnaam en die naam waarop iemand werklik geroep is, word albei gehou, en nie een word van die ander afgelei nie. Spelling wat van rekord tot rekord verskil, is self getuienis en nie geraas nie.

'n Lewe in die rekord

13 Mei 1840 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop
23 September 1842 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop

Wie by hulle gestaan het

Wie by 'n doop, 'n testament of 'n opmeting geteken het, is nie bykomstig nie. Dit is die duidelikste oorblywende rekord van watter families naby mekaar gestaan het.

hulle het gestaan vir [Corn]elia Maria [M]agdalena doop · 13 Mei 1840
hulle het gestaan vir [Ann]a Johanna Magdalena Elizabeth doop · 23 September 1842

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen geboortedatum is aangeteken nie.
Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.
Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.

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

Bronne

Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/

Navorsingsnotas

[9 Aug 2026] ADDED BY witness_scope_sweep.py UNDER SCOPE RULE R2, THE COMMUNITY. This person stood as a witness in this district and is here because the same name stands at more than one occasion, and the surname is one this project already holds. The register writes the name "Jacob Willem van der MerweH". OCCASIONS: 1840-05-13 baptism at Beaufort West; 1842-09-23 baptism at Beaufort West. SOURCE: SRC-200. flourished_edtf is the earliest of those occasion years and is the only date claimed for this person: the register attests them alive and adult on that day and says nothing else. No birth or death date is guessed. Sex is inferred from the given name where the name is unambiguous, and is left blank otherwise; it is an inference and not a record. THIS ROW IS A NAME IN A REGISTER, NOT A RESEARCHED PERSON. It carries no parentage, no ground and no tree id, and it exists so the witness seam can be walked in both directions. [TO VERIFY] IDENTITY ACROSS OCCASIONS: 2 occasions are linked to this one row on the strength of the name alone, spanning 1840 to 1842. 9 forbids matching a person by name alone and this is that risk, taken deliberately and marked. Two occasions a generation apart may be a man and his namesake nephew.

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.