Matthys Andries de Beer (b.1799)
May 1799 – 25 September 1876 · de Beer line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Matthys Andries
- Given
- Matthys Andries
- Surname
- de Beer
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
- Maria Susanna Jordaan
- Children
- Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de Beer
A life in the record
- May 1799 born Born
- 25 September 1876 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
- 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.
- 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
STRONG CANDIDATE for the "M. de BeerM, Veldkornet" who witnessed the Vlakfontein survey on 24 July 1833 and whose field cornetcy the 1834 Varsche Fontein diagram names (PER-000110) - he would have been 34. Father of Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de BeerH, who married Catharina Petronella OosthuizenM at Prince Albert in 1851. [TO VERIFY]
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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