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From: Deirdre Waldeck <>
Subject: VAN DER MERWE CONNECTIONS
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 17:16:04 +0200


New Year's Greetings from Durban

With the help of Janet (UPE), David (my Dad & the staff at the Bryanston
LDS) & Izak Visser I believe that I have found a definite LINK in my van
der Merwe research focussing on the Western Transvaal.

Should any of the following names have any connection with your on-going
research I would love to hear from you:

DAVID SCHALK VAN DER MERWE * 16/09/1791 x CECILIA MARGARETHA SWANEPOEL ( +
22/07/1836 in Graaff-Reinett, daughter of Johannes Jochemus Swanepoel &
Sophia Francina Jacobs )

Their son: JOHANNES JOACHIMUS VAN DER MERWE * Graaff-Reinett 26/04/1826 +
Nuwerst FS 26/08/1872 x ELIZABETH JOHANNA SCHMIDT ( * about 1831 in
Graaff-Reinett + 28/04/1890 in Rustenburg, daughter of Christiaan Hendrik
Schmidt & Dorothea Wilhelmina Claassen )

Their son: JOHANNES JOACHIMUS VAN DER MERWE * Graaff-Reinett 28/05/1853, a
butcher, + Rustenburg 13/12/1923 x 1- CATHARINA JOHANNA PUTTER ( * about
1855 + 28/05/1919 in Rustenburg, daughter of Daniel Jacobus Putter &
Beatrix Catharina Steyn ) xx 2- JOHANNA CATHARINA VAN COPPENHAGEN

Their son: (1st wife) JOHANNES JOACHIMUS VAN DER MERWE * between 1885 &
1898 x SUSANNA JOSINA BOTHA

My son's paternal great grandparents!

Any information would be welcomed.

Regards Deirdre
DEIRDRE WALDECK
e-mail:
postal: 4 Russell Place, Durban North 4051 Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
tel:849900 mobile: 082-4532979 fax: 305-3363
RESEARCHING: WALDECK/WALDEK in South Africa & Germany
BOTHA/VAN DER MERWE Transvaal
VAN NIEKERK Cape

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