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Person PER-000765

Sibella Aletta Sophia Mostert

29 July 1863 – 13 November 1942

Names

Surname
Mostert

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
Hendrik Jacobus Mostert
Mother
Magdalena Elizabeth Basson
Married
Hubertus Bruijn 15 March 1884
Children
Catharina Isabella Bruijn

A life in the record

  1. 29 July 1863 born Born
  2. 15 March 1884 married Married Hubertus Bruijn
  3. 8 September 1894 occasion Baptism of their child, Catharina Isabella Bruijn at Calvinia
  4. 13 November 1942 died Died

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: parent of Catharina Isabella BruijnH. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-398] SHE IS NAMED AS THE MOTHER at her daughter's baptism at Calvinia on 8 September 1894, written SEBELLA there against the SIBELLA this row carries. The variant is kept rather than tidied. This is the first original document in this project to carry her.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-402, SRC-403] BIRTH CORRECTED FROM 8 SEPTEMBER TO 29 JULY 1863, on the Calvinia baptism index; her 1942 sterfkennis gives 79 years 3 months at death on 13 November 1942, which computes to about 13 August 1863 and sits between the two, nearer July. HER PARENTS: HENDRIK JACOBUS MOSTERT and MAGDALENA ELIZABETH BASSON, named on both the baptism index and the sterfkennis. Neither was in this model. SHE WAS BORN AT NIEUWOUDTVILLE, married at VAN RHYNSDORP, and died in her own house on the farm BREEKBEENKOLK in the Calvinia district on 13 November 1942, a widow of thirteen years. The estate had no movables and a bond on the land. Her son signed the notice as present at the deathbed. FOUR CHILDREN NAMED: Adriaan Hubertus, Hendrik Jacobus, Catarina Isabella - entered as "getroud met Jacobus Johannes Gideon van der MerweL", which ties this family to the van der Merwes from an original document - and Hubertus. This model holds one of the four.

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