Petrus Gideon van Rensburg (b.1925)
5 January 1925 – 2006 · van Rensburg line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Petrus Gideon
- Given
- Petrus Gideon
- Surname
- van Rensburg
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
- Petrus Gideon van Rensburg
- Mother
- Maria Margaretha Walters
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Maria Cathrine Kohne Hitterl Fick 24 December 1966
A life in the record
- 5 January 1925 born Born
- 24 December 1966 married Married Maria Cathrine Kohne Hitterl Fick
- 2006 died Died
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-074] Brother of PER-000013, named for their father.
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000432 into this row. Both rows carry FamilySearch id GHDB-XNS, so they are one person. Kept PER-000183 ('Petrus Gideon van RensburgL (b.1925)'); merged PER-000432 ('Petrus Gideon van RensburgL'). Exposed by the _FID backfill of 31 Jul 2026, which gave nearly every person an id to collide on; before that these had no shared key. Check GHDB-XNS on FamilySearch before assuming the upstream tree needs anything - it is usually the LOCAL tree that is stale (LEAD-0021). Moved across: tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1925 -> 1925-01-05. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Petrus Gideon van RensburgL (b.1925)', PER-000432 said 'Petrus Gideon van RensburgL'; given: kept 'Petrus Gideon', PER-000432 said 'Petrus Gideon van'; surname: kept 'van Rensburg', PER-000432 said 'Rensburg'; line: kept 'van Rensburg', PER-000432 said 'Rensburg'.
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 GHDB-XNS