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Person PER-000251

Dirk Daniel Joubert (b.1874)

19 January 1874 – 18 January 1955 · Joubert line

Names

Baptismal name
Dirk Daniel
Given
Dirk Daniel
Surname
Joubert

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
Dirk Daniel Joubert
Mother
Anna Tobia Jeanne Neethling
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 19 January 1874 born Born
  2. 18 January 1955 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

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

Research notes

[SRC-074] Sibling of Frans's great-grandfather Christiaan Wilhelm Johannes JoubertM (PER-000077).

[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000672 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry GCGH-SM3; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: sex=M; tree id=. Dates sharpened from the merged row: birth_edtf 1874 -> 1874-01-19; death_edtf 1955 -> 1955-01-18. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Dirk Daniel JoubertL (b.1874)', PER-000672 said 'Dirk Daniel JoubertL'.

[6 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000673 into this row. One Dirk Daniel JoubertL, duplicated upstream and imported twice by the 31 Jul one-degree pull. Found 6 Aug 2026 by the same-day-same-name check written the same hour: two children of Anna Tobia Jeanne NeethlingM, both dated 19 January 1874, both called Dirk Daniel JoubertL - which twins are never called. Confirmed against the private tree: and carry the same name, the same exact birth date and the same parents, one holding the death of 18 Jan 1955 and the other only 'Deceased'. NOTE the tree's death place for the survivor reads 'Simonstad, Vegarshei, Aust-Agder, Norway', which is the 5 geocoder corruption of Simon's Town and is not imported. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Dirk Daniel JoubertL (b.1874)', PER-000673 said 'Dirk Daniel JoubertL'; tree id: kept '', PER-000673 said ''; familysearch_id: kept 'GCGH-SM3', PER-000673 said 'L29P-B8N'. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree, FamilySearch L29P-B8N - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.

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.

Open questions

Elders

FamilySearch profile GCGH-SM3