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Person PER-000591

Hester Maria Catharina Strydom

27 August 1802 – 14 January 1866 · Strydom line

Names

Given
Hester Maria Catharina
Surname
Strydom

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
Daniel Jacobus Strydom
Mother
Anna Magdalena Calitz
Brothers and sisters
Married
Roelof Adolph Oosthuizen
Children

A life in the record

  1. 27 August 1802 born Born
  2. 14 January 1866 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 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Anna Magdalena CalitzM, spouse of Anna Magdalena CalitzM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

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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