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Person PER-000652

Vincent Charles Marincowitz

No dates recorded · Marincowitz line

No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1879, because their mother died 1878. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

Names

Surname
Marincowitz

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Three generations around this person

Vincent Charles Marincowitz

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Immediate family

Father
Thomas Frederick Marincowitz
Mother
Hester Cornelia Catharina Oosthuysen
Brothers and sisters

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 Hester Cornelia Catharina OosthuysenM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[23 Aug 2026] POSSIBLE DUPLICATE OF PER-000045, Vincent Charles MarincowitzL (1877-1950), who held all four portions of Vrolikheid and died on it. This row is a thin one-degree pull from the tree with no dates. Not merged - a name alone is not an identification and PER-000045's parentage would have to agree. Flagged so it is not left to be found twice.

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Elders

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