Gert Adriaan Van Zyl
3 April 1846 – 1924
Names
- Surname
- Van Zyl
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Immediate family
- Father
- Wynand van Zyl
- Mother
- Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1829Caspar Cornelis Van Zyl
- 1831Adriana Cecilia Van Zyl
- 1833Ocker Almero Van Zyl
- 1834Susanna Catharina Abigael Van Zyl
- 1836Wynand Johannes Van Zyl
- 1838Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl
- 1839Jan Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1841Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl
- 1841Wynand Casper Van Zyl
- 1842Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl
- 1844Petrus Cornelis Marthinus van Zyl
- 1848Cornelis Andreas Van Zyl
- 1850Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl
- 1852Cornelia Janette van Zyl
- 1852Isaak Daniel De Vries van Zyl
- 1854~Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl
A life in the record
- 3 April 1846 born Born
- 1924 died Died
What we don't know
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
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 Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
[22 Sep 2026] MERGED PER-000830 into this row. same person: Gert (Gerrit) Adriaan van Zyl, b. 3 Apr 1846, same parents Wynand van ZylM and Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenM; Gert is the everyday form of Gerrit; FamilySearch GJB6-7CP kept, LHZQ-V15 retired - FS may hold a duplicate DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Gert Adriaan Van ZylH', PER-000830 said 'Gerrit Adriaan Van Zyl'; tree id: kept '', PER-000830 said ''; familysearch_id: kept 'GJB6-7CP', PER-000830 said 'LHZQ-V15'. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree, FamilySearch LHZQ-V15 - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.
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Open questions
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Four same-day sibling pairs that are one child under two spellings
priority 2 · LEAD-0111
Four pairs of siblings share a mother and an exact birth date and carry names one or two letters apart. Are they twins given near-identical names, or one child recorded twice?
What would settle it The register entry, or a single FamilySearch profile behind both ids.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GJB6-7CP