Maria Johanna Marais
20 January 1892 – 25 January 1973 · Marais line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5) (1915-09-28).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Maria Johanna
- Given
- Maria Johanna
- Surname
- Marais
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
- Married
- Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5) 28 September 1915
A life in the record
- 20 January 1892 born Born
- 28 September 1915 married Married Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5)
- 25 January 1973 died Died
- 28 January 1973 buried Buried, Prince Albert, burial ground not identified
Stories
- mentioned Six graves on Botterkraal
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.
Research notes
[SRC-072] Born on Nooitgedacht, baptised Fraserburg. Married at Prince Albert 28 Sep 1915 from Tierpoort, Beaufort West. Her headstone in the Prince Albert cemetery gives her birthday as 19 January, her baptism entry as 20 January - a one-day discrepancy of the kind worth recording rather than resolving.
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.