Francois Jean van Helslandt Duminy
22 August 1818 – 28 December 1908 · Duminy line
Names
- Surname
- Duminy
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Catharina Maria Stadler
- Married
- Maria Johanna Emerentia Van Oosterzee 21 October 1838
A life in the record
- 22 August 1818 born Born
- 21 October 1838 married Married Maria Johanna Emerentia Van Oosterzee
- 28 December 1908 died Died
Stories
- subject The Jouberts and Duminys of the winelands
- ancestor The Jouberts and Duminys of the winelands
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.
- 2 other people 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 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: parent of Benjamin François DuminyH. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
WHERE THE NAME COMES FROM, settled 18 Aug 2026: van Helslandt is not an ancestor's surname. His father's sister Jeane Francoise DuminyM (PER-000815) married CHARLES JEAN VAN HELSLANDT of Torhout in Flanders on 26 April 1800, and that marriage was childless. He was born eighteen years later and given the childless uncle's name, which is the Cape naming order doing what it does once the grandparents are used up. The name outlived the man: it repeats in 1853 and 1884 and passes down this line. [SRC-071]
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Open questions
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Where does "van Helslandt" come from? - ANSWERED: a childless uncle by marriage, 1800
priority 3 · LEAD-0228
The line reads, as far as it can be read from the crop: '191 | Helsland | Charles van | S:t Dumen[ij]'. Two names this project carries appear beside each other a century before it holds either at the Cape.
What would settle it A van Helsland named as a witness at the 1818 baptism, or as a spouse anywhere in the two preceding generations. Failing that, the name stays unexplained and the 1708 entry stays a coincidence of two surnames on one line.
Elders
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