Thomas Frederick Marincowitz
20 June 1874 – 22 December 1942 · Marincowitz line
Names
- Called
- Tom
- Given
- Thomas Frederick
- Surname
- Marincowitz
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Immediate family
- Father
- Thomas Frederick Marincowitz
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 20 June 1874 born Born
- 22 December 1942 died Died
Others of the same name
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What we don't know
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Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: child Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL (PER-000188). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
[16 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000802 into this row. SRC-008 settles it: item 124, Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL b. 20 Jun 1874, had one son, Archibald George b. 22 Sep 1901. PER-000413 IS that man; PER-000802 was a thin tree row whose only content was 'parent of Archibald George MarincowitzH'. The private tree had split one man in two. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL', PER-000802 said 'Tom Marincowitz'; tree id: kept '', PER-000802 said ''; familysearch_id: kept 'GQS9-3C9', PER-000802 said 'GKPD-FMP'. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree, FamilySearch GKPD-FMP - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.
[16 Aug 2026, SRC-008] HE WAS IN THE FAMILY'S OWN PUBLISHED REPORT ALL ALONG. .. Hulle het een seun gehad: Archibald George", and 1241 gives Archibald born 22 September 1901 and BAPTISED 13 AUGUST 1902. The birth is refined here from a bare 1874 to 20 June 1874 on that line.
CALLED TOM. The private tree carried a second, dateless row under that name holding nothing but the fatherhood of Archibald, and it has been merged in.
HIS PLACE IN THE LINE: son of Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL (PER-000188, 1847-1916, who died on VROLIKHEID) and Hester Cornelia Catharina OosthuysenM (PER-000218), so a grandson of Gerolm of Trieste.
THE REPORT NAMES HIS WIFE AS IGNASINA MARAIS AND THAT IS PROBABLY AN ERROR IN IT - see LEAD-0207. Nothing about a wife is written on this row.
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Open questions
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The descendant report gives Ignasina Marais as wife to both a father and his son
priority 2 · LEAD-0207
SRC-008 says item 12, Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL (1847-1916), "is daarna getroud met Ignasina MaraisM op 30 Aug 1888 te Prince Albert" with two further children, Philip Ernest (1889) and Adeline Mirkle (1890), numbered 127 and 128 as his own. It ALSO says item 124, his son Thomas Frederick (b. 20 Jun 1874), "is getroud met Ignasina MaraisM". Which of them did she marry, and was it one woman or two?
What would settle it Archibald's baptism entry. It names the mother, and that decides whose wife she was without needing the marriage register at all.
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Two children each carry two sets of parents, and neither can be decided from what is held
priority 2 · LEAD-0218
Archibald George MarincowitzH (b. 22 Sep 1901) is recorded as the son of Thomas Frederick MarincowitzL twice over, once as PER-000188 (1847-1916) with Ignasina MaraisM and once as PER-000413 (1874-1942) with no mother. Pieter Hendrik MockeL (b. 24 Sep 1869) is recorded as the son of Jan Adriaan Gideon MockeM by two different women, PER-000157 Anna Magdalena OosthuysenL (b.1852) and PER-000363 Anna Magdalena OosthuizenL (b.1839). Which is right in each case?
What would settle it A baptism entry naming the parents in either case.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GQS9-3C9