Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe
active 1909 · Malherbe line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert (1909-09-12).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Hendrik Lodewijk
- Given
- Hendrik Lodewijk
- Surname
- Malherbe
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.
A life in the record
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12 September 1909
event
Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
Born 17 August 1909, baptised four weeks later by ds David Wilcocks. Six witnesses, four of them MALHERBES - the mother's people had come. Among them stood HENDRIK LODEWIJK MALHERBE himself, the man the child was named for. The fifth generation of this family read from an original register, and the
- 12 September 1909 witness Witnessed a baptism · Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptism · 12 September 1909
on Vischat
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- 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.
Sources
- Baptism, 12 September 1909: Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen, Prince Albert FamilySearch; NG Kerk Prins Albert doop register (catalogued by FamilySearch under a wrong waypoint - see notes)ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKX-97ZS-3; image 166 of 406; Image Group Number 008150240; register page 481, entry 128
Research notes
[SRC-089] Baptism witness at Prince Albert, 12 Sept 1909, AND THE MAN THE CHILD WAS NAMED FOR. Almost certainly Johanna Fredrika Malherbe's father and so FRANS'S 2x-GREAT-GRANDFATHER: by the vernoemingspatroon the second son takes the mother's father's name, and he is standing right there. [TO VERIFY against a Malherbe marriage or death record.]
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