Pieter Swanepoel
1718 – before 1800-03-21 · Swanepoel line
Names
- Given
- Pieter
- Surname
- Swanepoel
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
- Pieter Jansz Swanepoel
- Mother
- Maria Sibella Sachs
- Brothers and sisters
- Rosa Swanepoel
- Married
- Martha Elisabeth Botha 11 February 1742
- Children
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- 1743Pieter Swanepoel
- 1744Willem Swanepoel
- 1747Jan Andries Swanepoel
- 1750Frederik Swanepoel
- 1753Jacobus Swanepoel
- 1755Johannes Jochemus Swanepoel
- 1758Willem Barend Swanepoel
- 1760Abraham Christoffel Swanepoel
- 1762Catharina Swanepoel
- 1765Maria Sibilla Swanepoel
- 1766Maria Sibilla Swanepoel
- 1770Hendrik Jacobus Swanepoel
A life in the record
- before 1800-03-21 died Died
- 1718 born Born
- 11 February 1742 married Married Martha Elisabeth Botha
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
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: child Pieter Jansz SwanepoelM (PER-000079). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
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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