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Persoon PER-001863

Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1673-1740)

14 Julie 1673 – 21 Maart 1740 · van der Merwe line

Naam

Voorname
Schalk Willem
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.

Naaste familie

Vader
Willem Schalkz van der Merwe (d.1716)
Moeder
Adelheidis "Elsie" Klauten Cloete (d.1702)
Broers en susters
Aeltie van der Merwe (1684-1729)
Getroud
Anne Prevost (1681-) 26 Februarie 1696
Kinders
Isaak van der Merwe (1711-1777), Martha van der Merwe (1713-1784)

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 14 Julie 1673 gebore Born
  2. 26 Februarie 1696 getroud Married Anne Prevost (1681-)
  3. 21 Maart 1740 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.

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.

Navorsingsnotas

[20 Aug 2026, SRC-533 + the private tree] DIRECT ANCESTOR, admitted under scope rule R3 which takes direct ancestry back unbounded. TWO SOURCES THAT HAVE NEVER MET AGREE: Laura Mitchell's 'Belongings' (Columbia UP, 2008) ch. 5 tells this family's story in prose, and the private tree carries the dates. Neither cites the other. Eldest son of the stamvader. With Anne PrevostH he had SEVENTEEN children, sixteen of whom married - Mitchell counts nineteen marriages into only ten families, three already related. Three of his sons married van Rensburg first cousins and three of his children married van Heerden first cousins, which is where two of this project's own lines cross.

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.