Magdalena Maria Kruger
26 December 1882 – 6 February 1950 · Kruger line
Names
- Called
- Lenie
- Given
- Magdalena Maria
- Surname
- Kruger
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Maria Margaretha Visser
- Married
- Jacobus Abraham Walters
A life in the record
- 26 December 1882 born Born
- 6 February 1950 died Died
What we don't know
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Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: father/mother Maria Margaretha WaltersH (PER-000174). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-395] SHE WAS CALLED LENIE, and she is the Kruger the family means. Her granddaughter's typescript: "ons ouma Walters se nooiensvan was KRUGER. Die Carnarvon Kruger's." So the Kruger connection this family carries runs through HER, not through her husband, whatever the handwritten note on the same page says. DIE CARNARVON KRUGERS is the useful phrase: it narrows where to look. AND HER OWN MOTHER WAS BORN SMUTS - "Haar ma was weer 'n nooi SMUTS". That puts a Smuts in this direct maternal line, and it is probably why the family knew Jan Smuts well enough for him to stand godfather to her son in 1911. Neither her Kruger nor her Smuts ancestry is documented here.
[17 Aug 2026, TREE] NOEMNAAM FROM THE FAMILY TREE EXPORTS, which carry alternate NAME records typed aka. Taken only where the alternate is a SHORT SINGLE NAME that is not a spelling variant of the formal one - the sweep turned up 26 candidates and most were spelling drift (Strijdom for Strydom, Izaac for Isaac), which 5a keeps as evidence but which is not a noemnaam.
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