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Person PER-000234

Francois Jean van Helslandt Duminy (b.1853)

12 September 1853 – 27 June 1937 · Duminy line

Names

Baptismal name
Francois Jean van Helslandt
Given
Francois Jean van Helslandt
Surname
Duminy

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
Francois Jean van Helslandt Duminy
Mother
Maria Johanna Emerentia Van Oosterzee
Brothers and sisters
Benjamin François Duminy
Married
Children

A life in the record

  1. 12 September 1853 born Born
  2. 11 March 1877 married Married Margaretha Elizabeth Zeederberg
  3. 7 September 1898 married Married Catharina Maria van Niekerk
  4. 5 January 1918 married Married Anna Tobia Jeane Neethling
  5. 27 June 1937 died Died

Stories

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

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

Research notes

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 2x-great-grandfather. Died at Blaauwberg ("Villa van Helslandt"). Married Margaretha Elizabeth ZeederbergH at Durban, Cape, 11 Mar 1877. THE FATHER OF THE TWO SISTERS: Maria Johanna (PER-000074), who married into the Zeekoegat Oosthuizens and died at Prince Albert in 1916, and Francoise Jeanne (PER-000076), Frans's great-grandmother. FamilySearch shows eleven children; the Duminy genealogy (SRC-071) says fourteen [TO VERIFY]. [SRC-074]

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

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