Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina Beukes
30 June 1854 – 1944 · Beukes line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) (1880-03-02).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina
- Given
- Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina
- Surname
- Beukes
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.
Three generations around this person
Work out how this person is related to somebody else →
Click any name and the same three generations are drawn around that person instead. There is no first couple here and no top to the tree: it is only ever the family standing closest to whoever you are reading about, and a blank is a gap in the record rather than a statement about anybody.
Immediate family
- Married
- Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) 2 March 1880
A life in the record
- 30 June 1854 born Born
- 2 March 1880 married Married Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)
- 30 March 1943 occasion Will at Prince Albert
- 1944 died Died
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- stood for them C.H.R. van Solms will · 30 March 1943 · witness
- stood for them C.P. Marx will · 30 March 1943 · witness
What we don't know
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- '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
[SRC-072] Daughter of Barend Beukes and Wilhelmina Carolina Jacoba Swanepoel; baptised Prince Albert 7 Jul 1855. Married the 52-year-old widower Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelH on 2 Mar 1880, six months after his first wife died; no children in 29 years of marriage. Their joint will of 8 Feb 1898 left everything to HIS first wife's children. MOOC 93273, 1944. This is the Beukes-Swanepoel link Frans was searching on - a marriage, not a descent.
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.