Martha Gertruida Olivier
1864 – 8 September 1896
Names
- Surname
- Olivier
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Immediate family
- Married
- Albertus Gerhardus Janse van Rensburg 1 December 1884
A life in the record
- 1864 born Born
- 1 December 1884 married Married Albertus Gerhardus Janse van Rensburg
- 8 September 1896 died Died
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- mentioned The van Rensburgs
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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] She died on 8 SEPTEMBER 1896, aged about 32, when her son Petrus Gideon (PER-000173) was five. Her husband followed her sixteen months later and the boy was raised by a Vos family. See PER-000173.
[17 Aug 2026] HER THREE-YEAR-OLD NAMESAKE DIED ELEVEN WEEKS AFTER HER. Martha Gertruida Janse van RensburgH [PER-001848], born 5 September 1893, died 27 November 1896.
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