Elisabeth Loots (baptism witness, 1769)
active 1769 · Loots line · unidentified
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Jan de Bruijn baptised (1769-04-16).
Names
- Given
- Elisabeth
- Surname
- Loots
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.
A life in the record
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16 April 1769
event
Jan de Bruijn baptised
Son of Hendrik de Bruijn and Anna Loots; witnesses Willem Meijer and Elisabeth Loots. Fifty years later he is holding Rondabel in the Koup and married to an Oosthuizen. The congregation is not named on the page.
- 16 April 1769 witness Witnessed a baptism · Jan de Bruin
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Jan de Bruin baptism · 16 April 1769
on Rondabel
Stories
- mentioned Two farms called Vrolykheid
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- Baptism of Jan de Bruijn, 16 April 1769 (register ANNO 1769, entry 20) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WTLN, cc=1478678, image 1 of 1; pages 90-91, ANNO 1769, entry no. 20
Research notes
[31 Jul 2026 SRC-168] Witness at Jan de BruinM's baptism alongside Willem MeijerM. Shares a surname with the mother, Anna LootsM - the usual reading is a sister of the mother, and the vernoemingspatroon work in 5b makes maternal kin the commonest witnesses. Recorded as a reading, not a fact.
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