Albertus Gerhardus Janse van Rensburg
7 January 1860 – 1 January 1898 · van Rensburg line
Names
- Called
- Bertie
- Given
- Albertus Gerhardus
- Surname
- Janse van Rensburg
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Immediate family
- Mother
- Hester Helena Snyman
- Married
- Martha Gertruida Olivier 1 December 1884
A life in the record
- 7 January 1860 born Born
- 1 December 1884 married Married Martha Gertruida Olivier
- 1 January 1898 died Died
Stories
- subject The van Rensburgs
- ancestor The van Rensburgs
What we don't know
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Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: parent of Petrus Gideon van RensburgL. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
[9 Aug 2026] HE IS THE GRANDFATHER RIA NEVER KNEW. Frans found him only recently; his granddaughter Maria Magritha van RensburgM (PER-000013) went through her life without knowing her father's parents. He died on 1 JANUARY 1898 leaving a son of six, Petrus Gideon (PER-000173), whose mother had died sixteen months before him. His is also the JANSE the family dropped: the son is recorded from then on as van Rensburg.
[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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Elders
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