Roelof Anthonie van der Merwe, 1893

Name
Roelof Anthonie /van der Merwe/
Given names
Roelof Anthonie
Surname
van der Merwe
Birth
Baptism
Death of a paternal grandfather
Cause: murder by gunshot (after inquest)
Citation details: Death registration: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (11 Sep 1896), FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-PB81-C?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-HQR%3A139966501%2C139965702 : 21 August 2017), 1896 > Cradock > image 238 of 428; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 11 Oct 2020
Date of entry in original source: September 11, 1896
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Death registration: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (17 Sep 1896), FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-PB81-C?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-HQR%3A139966501%2C139965702 : 21 August 2017), 1896 > Cradock > image 238 of 428; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 11 Oct 2020
Date of entry in original source: September 17, 1896
Quality of data: primary evidence
Text:

† "Brakfontein", dist. Cradock 11.9.1896

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Text:

op de plaats Brakfontein

Citation details: Death notice: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1896), MOOC 6/9/358 #2612, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-FSJ7-B?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-S8T%3A1598092308 : 12 September 2017), 007844969 > image 9 of 2176; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 25 June 2019

Death place: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1832-1896)

The death registrations indicate place of death as Dassieskloof with an intention to bury on Brakfontein his normal place of residence.

Death of a paternal grandmother
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Epidemic
Bubonic plague
February 1, 1901 (aged 7 years)
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War
Second Boer War
from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (aged 9 years)
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Historical Event
South African Republic
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Historical Event
Orange Free State
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Epidemic
Pneumonic plague
February 1904 (aged 10 years)
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Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg.
Epidemic
Tuberculosis
1906 (aged 12 years)
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Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
Historical Event
Union of South Africa
May 31, 1910 (aged 17 years)
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Note: Union of South Africa established.
Epidemic
Smallpox
1912 (aged 18 years)
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War
World War I
from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (aged 25 years)
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Epidemic
Spanish flu
1918 (aged 24 years)
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Prime minister
Louis Botha
from May 31, 1910 to August 27, 1919 (aged 26 years)
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Prime minister
Jan Christiaan Smuts
from September 3, 1919 to June 30, 1924 (aged 31 years)
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Economic Event
Wall Street Crash
October 1929 (aged 36 years)
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Death of a father
Citation details: Gravestone: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1936) and Maria Susanna Catharina VAN DER MERWE (1947), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1121109 : accessed 5 July 2019
Citation details: Death registration: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1936), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95F7-92BK?cc=1779109&wc=Q81G-8GR%3A139966401%2C139965702 : 3 December 2019), 1936 > Cradock > image 269 of 418; National Archives, Pretoria : accessed 9 Jan 2020
Prime minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
from June 30, 1924 to September 5, 1939 (aged 46 years)
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War
World War II
from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (aged 52 years)
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Death of a mother
Citation details: Gravestone: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1936) and Maria Susanna Catharina VAN DER MERWE (1947), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1121109 : accessed 5 July 2019
Prime minister
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from September 5, 1939 to June 4, 1948 (aged 55 years)
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Prime minister
Daniel Francois Malan
from June 4, 1948 to November 30, 1954 (aged 61 years)
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Prime minister
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
from November 30, 1954 to August 24, 1958 (aged 65 years)
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Economic Event
Rand adopted
February 14, 1961 (aged 67 years)
South Africa
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Historical Event
Republic of South Africa
May 31, 1961 (aged 68 years)
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Prime minister
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
from September 2, 1958 to September 6, 1966 (aged 73 years)
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Death of a brother
Citation details: Gravestone: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1911-1969), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1121112 : accessed 30 Dec 2021
Prime minister
Balthazar Johannes Vorster
from September 13, 1966 to October 2, 1978 (aged 85 years)
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Prime minister
Pieter Willem Botha
from October 9, 1978 to September 14, 1984 (aged 91 years)
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Executive President
Pieter Willem Botha
from September 14, 1984 to August 15, 1989 (aged 96 years)
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Jan Christiaan Heunis
from January 19, 1989 to March 15, 1989 (aged 95 years)
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Nelson Mandela released from prison
February 11, 1990 (aged 96 years)
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First General Elections
April 27, 1994 (aged 101 years)
South Africa
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from August 15, 1989 to May 10, 1994 (aged 101 years)
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
from May 10, 1994 to June 14, 1999 (aged 106 years)
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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
from June 14, 1999 to September 24, 2008 (aged 115 years)
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Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe
from September 25, 2008 to May 9, 2009 (aged 116 years)
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President
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
from May 9, 2009 to February 14, 2018 (aged 124 years)
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Burial of a mother
Citation details: Gravestone: Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1936) and Maria Susanna Catharina VAN DER MERWE (1947), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1121109 : accessed 5 July 2019
Family with parents
father
Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1866-1936, c. 1920)
18661936
Birth: March 15, 1866 33 28
Death: July 31, 1936Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
mother
Maria Susanna Catharina BOSCH (1864-1947, c. 1920)
18641947
Birth: June 12, 1864 27
Death: December 28, 1947
Marriage MarriageAugust 27, 1888Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
16 months
elder sister
Aletta Johanna VAN DER MERWE (1889-, c. 1920)
1889
Birth: December 13, 1889 23 25
22 months
elder brother
1891
Birth: October 2, 1891 25 27
19 months
himself
Roelof Anthonie VAN DER MERWE (1893-, c.1920)
1893
Birth: April 25, 1893 27 28
10 years
younger sister
Margaretha Elizabeth VAN DER MERWE (1903-, c. 1920)
1903
Birth: August 9, 1903 37 39 Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
8 years
younger brother
Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1911-, c. 1920)
19111969
Birth: May 28, 1911 45 46
Death: March 23, 1969

Descendants of Roelof Anthonie van der Merwe

  1. Generation 1
    1. Roelof Anthonie VAN DER MERWE (1893-, c.1920)

      Roelof Anthonie van der Merwe, son of Barend Stephanus van der Merwe and Maria Susanna Catharina Bosch, was born on April 25, 1893.

Ancestors of Roelof Anthonie van der Merwe

  1. Generation 1
    1. Roelof Anthonie VAN DER MERWE (1893-, c.1920)

      Roelof Anthonie van der Merwe, son of Barend Stephanus van der Merwe and Maria Susanna Catharina Bosch, was born on April 25, 1893.

  2. Generation 2 back to top
      2 of 2 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Barend Stephanus VAN DER MERWE (1866-1936, c. 1920)

      Barend Stephanus van der Merwe, son of Barend Stephanus van der Merwe and Elizabeth Margaretha Welgemoed, was born on March 15, 1866 and died on July 31, 1936 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 70.

    2. Maria Susanna Catharina BOSCH (1864-1947, c. 1920)

      Maria Susanna Catharina Bosch, daughter of Roelof Anthony Bosch and Aletta Johanna Hayter, was born on June 12, 1864 and died on December 28, 1947 at the age of 83.

  3. Generation 3 back to top
      4 of 4 individuals (100% complete).
    1. Barend Stephanus van der Merwe, farmer (in 1857) and farmer (in 1896), son of Izaak van der Merwe and Aletta Susanna van der Linde, was baptized on April 18, 1832 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died on September 11, 1896 in Dassieskloof, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa at the age of 64.

    2. Elizabeth Margaretha Welgemoed, daughter of David Johannes Welgemoed and Maria Elizabeth Krugel, was born in February 1838 in Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died about 1897 in Schurftepoort, Dist. Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    3. Roelof Anthony Bosch, son of Michiel Coenraad Bosch and Maria Susanna Catharina Wagenaar, was born on March 20, 1837.

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Anna Susanna Girlie Theron (1907–1984) Frank Edwin Blewett (1916–1995) Dirk Hendrik Jacobus Coetzee (1931–2010) Maria Susanna Catharina Bosch (1864–1947) Burgher Ferreira Koch (1913–1976) Christiaan Gert Conradie (1837–1898) Jacoba Egberta Ferreira (1881–1940) Frederick Wilhelm Frik Koch (1911–1977) Dirk Hendrik Jacobus Coetzee (1931–2010) Johannes Frederik John Theron (1880–1971) Henri-Armand du Wicquet de Rodelinghem (1848–) Willem Jacobus Cloete (1901–1981) Charles Thomas Ekron (1873–1935) Toby van Schalkwyk Koch (1952–2003) Richard Leonard Haddon Townsend (1904–1990) Willem Jacobus Cloete (1872–1937) Judith Daisy Welgemoed (1914–1987) Brenda Law (1910–1999) Christian Gert Boy Theron (1874–1962) John George Delport (1896–1949) Anna Magdalena Egbertha Koch (1905–1972) Jacoba Ritchie Erlank (1866–1904) James Bodinar Jimmy Blewett (1930–1985) Wilhelmina Magdelena Willie Conradie (1877–1973) Aletta Johanna van der Merwe (1889–) Dirk Albertus Johannes Loubser (1882–1971) Willem Jacobus Cloete (1901–1981) Barend Stephanus van der Merwe Bennie Welgemoed (1906–1959) Edward Noël Ted Giddy (1931–1998) Léonie-Anastasie Drolez (1855–) Rosine Maud Townsend (1897–) Maria Elizabeth Nonnie Conradie (1866–1955) Willem Izak Welgemoed (1911–1992) Kate Winifred Winnie Haddon (1873–1945) Leon Theron (1916–1966) Cornelius Willem Petrus Corneels Cloete (1899–1967) Muriel Dorothy Evelyn Barnard (1941–2009) Martinus Gericke Jeppe Koch (1921–1998) Barend Stephanus van der Merwe Bennie Welgemoed (1906–1959) Christian Gert Boy Theron (1874–1962) Christian Gert Conradie Christie Theron (1900–1946) Hugo Theron (1918–1987) William Edward Bill Key (1905–1991) Willem Izak Welgemoed (1911–1992) Susanna Catharina Sannie van der Merwe (1927–1951) Anna Magdalena Egbertha Koch (1905–1972) Roelof Anthonie van der Merwe (1893–) Daniel Hockly (1787–1835) Dacre Lovett Haddon (1922–1944) John Maitland Laurie Watermeyer (1916–2000) Johannes Frederik Jannie Theron (1910–1990) Margaret Eileen Laura Peggy Matthews (1906–1993) Cynthia Theron (1934–1998) Michiel Hendrik Koch (1867–1941) Andries Christian David Dries Koch (1918–1982) Johanna Maria Jossie Loubser (1934–2007) Aletta C. Lettie Visagie (1921–2002) Hugo Theron (1918–1987) Petronella Johanna Piekie de Villiers (1907–1973) Vera Theron (1954–2012) William Dods Pringle (1809–1876)