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Person PER-000375

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

Father
Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7)
Mother
Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter
Brothers and sisters
Married
Children

A life in the record

  1. 6 February 1851 born Born
  2. 19 July 1869 married Married Dorothea Regina Loots
  3. 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

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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