← The land

Person PER-000081

Rosa Swanepoel

13 April 1721 – 21 April 1767 · Swanepoel line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Johannes Hendrik Conradie (1737-07-19).

Names

Baptismal name
Rosa
Given
Rosa
Surname
Swanepoel

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Immediate family

Father
Pieter Jansz Swanepoel
Mother
Maria Sibella Sachs
Brothers and sisters
Pieter Swanepoel
Married
Johannes Hendrik Conradie 19 July 1737
Children
Pieter Conradie, Jacobus Conradie

A life in the record

  1. 13 April 1721 born Born
  2. 19 July 1737 married Married Johannes Hendrik Conradie
  3. 19 July 1737 event Rosa Swanepoel marries Johannes Hendrik Conradie
    At Stellenbosch. Through this marriage Rosa Swanepoel became the stammoeder of the Conradie family in South Africa. Frans descends from this couple through his mother.
  4. 21 April 1767 died Died

What we don't know

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

Sources

  1. 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526

Research notes

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 7x-great-grandmother. [SRC-072] The stamvader's fourth child (b4), baptised 13 Apr 1721 at Stellenbosch; married Johannes Hendrik ConradieL there 19 Jul 1737; died 21 Apr 1767 at Nieuwmunster, Tulbagh. THROUGH HER MARRIAGE SHE BECAME THE STAMMOEDER OF THE CONRADIE FAMILY IN SOUTH AFRICA. Her brother Jacobus (b6) heads the line that ends up farming Botterkraal beside Zeekoegat - so the Swanepoels of the Prince Albert district are cousins, not strangers. Thesis dates match the tree exactly.

[4 Aug 2026, SRC-259] Named in the Tulbagh book as her father's ONLY daughter: "Nieuwmunster was sold in 1747 to Johannes Conradie who married Swanepoel's only daughter Rosa, who thus became the ancestress of the Conradie family." So the farm and the family passed together, and this project's Swanepoel-Conradie link is confirmed from a published archival source rather than from the tree alone.

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.

Elders

FamilySearch profile LHJJ-374