The van der Merwes
Everyone this archive holds under the van der Merwe name, how the name is written, where they are placed and which other families they married into. All of it is counted from the archive's own people, households and register; nothing is added to it.
The van der Merwe name at a glance
| On these pages | 5 people, all of whom carry or were born to the name. |
| How well known | Documented 5 of the 5 who are not living. What the words mean → |
| Years named | 1785–1825 in the dates this archive prints for them |
| The name as written | van der Merwe 5 |
| On the direct line | 1 ancestor on the archive's chart carries the name (below). |
| Places | Bloemfontein 1 · Kaalspruit 1 · Leeuwberg 1 — the places that name them. Places → |
On the direct line
Ancestors on the archive's chart who carry the name. The generation is the one the Spine uses, where the chart's starting point, Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen, is generation 2. Each note is the opening of what the archive says on that person's own page.
Anna Maria van der Merwe
1785 – bef. Mar 1825 Documented
WikiTree makes her a daughter of DAVID SCHALK VAN DER MERWE and ANNA ELIZABETH LOUW—which, if right, is where the forename DAVID SCHALK entered this family: her eldest son carries her father’s names entire.FROM WIKITREE, NOT FROM A DOCUMENT THIS ARCHIVE HAS READ, and it is checkable against the van der Merwe baptism registers rather than the tree. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — DE VILLIERS HAS HER, AND HE DISAGREES WITH THE TREE. … The whole note →
How this family connects to the others
4 households in the archive's records have a person of this page as a spouse. In 4 the other spouse is of another name: Booyzen (2); Kolbe (1); Mountjoy (1).
| Household | The other family | Known from | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Anna Maria van der Merwe Married 1805 at Graaff-Reinet. NO LONGER TREE-SOURCED: a Dutch Reformed baptism of 4 January 1807 names her as the mother of DAVID SCHALK BOOIJZEN, born 12 December 1806, who is first of the eight on the 1876 Sterfkennis. … The 1876 Sterfkennis → | Booyzen | a record read here | 8 |
| Petrus Jacobus Booysen & Elizabetha van der Merwe A second marriage, and a second van der Merwe. Named as the mother on their son Hendrik Stephanus's 1908 death notice — his age puts his birth about June 1828, three years after the first wife died. … The 1908 death notice → | Booyzen | a record read here | 1 |
| John Gerson Eliezar Kolbe & Anna Jacoba van der Merwe Married 3 April 1843; he died on the same date twenty-five years later, leaving her with twelve children — eight sons and four daughters, which is his obituary's own count. … What Was Searched → | Kolbe | a record read here | 11 |
| David Schalk van der Merwe & Jacoba Catharina Mountjoy Married at Cradock, 24 March 1838 — eight months before her sister married Petrus Jacobus Booysen in the same town. The women → | Mountjoy | a record read here | 0 |
Everyone on this page
5 people, oldest first by the first year the archive prints for them; those with no year come last. Dates are shown exactly as the archive prints them on the person's own page. Two people of one name are two rows.
5 people · everything is listed; the filters only narrow it
| Name | Born | Died | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Maria van der Merwe | 1785 | bef. Mar 1825 | Documented |
| Anna Jacoba van der Merwe | — | — | Documented |
| Anna van der Merwe of Burgersdorp | — | — | Documented |
| David Schalk van der Merwe | — | — | Documented |
| Elizabetha van der Merwe | — | — | Documented |
Nothing matches that.
Where the archive writes about them
The pages this archive itself links from these people's entries, with how many of them each one covers.
- The Women 5 people
- Disputed 3 people
- Death of Commandant Kolbe 1 person
- The 1806 baptism 1 person
- The Barry fonts 1 person
- The Documents 1 person
- The Line 1 person
How we know, and what this page does not say
Every person here carries one of the archive's marks: Documented a record was read; Inferred reasoned from records; Testimony told by the family; Open an open question. Method →
This page groups people by the name they carry and by the line the archive filed them on. A shared surname is not a relationship, as the Register says: where the archive has not connected two people of one name, nothing here connects them, and the households above are the only connections drawn.