Johannes Hendrik Swanepoel
6 February 1851 – 24 December 1900 · Swanepoel line
Names
- Given
- Johannes Hendrik
- 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
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
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- 1852Dorothea Regina Swanepoel
- 1844Dorothea Regina Loots
- 1852Dorothea Regina Loots 19 July 1869
- Children
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- 1870Pieter Johannes Swanepoel
- 1871Elizabeth Maria Susanna Swanepoel
- 1871Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Swanepoel
- 1873Dorothea Regina Swanepoel
- 1876Philippus Cornelis Petrus Loots Swanepoel
- 1877Johannes Hendrik Swanepoel
- 1881Anna Catharina Swanepoel
- 1883Jan Adriaan Swanepoel
- 1886Johanna Adriana Swanepoel
- 1888Maria Elizabeth Catharina Swanepoel
- 1891Francina Christina Swanepoel
A life in the record
- 6 February 1851 born Born
- 19 July 1869 married Married Dorothea Regina Loots
- 24 December 1900 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
- 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 Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina VenterM (PER-000085); child Pieter Johannes SwanepoelL (b6c5d7) (PER-000083). 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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