Ockert Almero Van Zyl
22 September 1834 – 1921
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Names
- Given
- Ockert Almero Van
- Surname
- Van Zyl
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
- Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 22 September 1834 born Born
- 1921 died Died
Stories
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 Susanna Catharina OosthuizenL (b.1811). Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
[FS, 1 Aug 2026] LHF3-P9K, 1834-1921. *** THE NAME TRAVELLED. *** He is the SECOND SON, and he carries OCKERT ALMERO - his mother's father, of Middelwater. The vernoemingspatroon puts the second son on the mother's father exactly, and the first son, Casper Wynand Cornelis, carries the father's father Casper. So both grandfathers are in the first two boys, and one of them is a Karoo farm name in a family that had left the Karoo.
These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.
Open questions
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Does Tokkie's son-in-law's van Zyl line come down from the Brandfort van Zyls?
priority 3 · LEAD-0049
Tokkie's daughter married a van Zyl, born 1954. Does his line come down from Casper van ZylM of Swellendam (1781-1863, PER-001376) - the same van Zyl family that married two Oosthuizen sisters off Middelwater in the 1830s?
What would settle it A parent chain from his FamilySearch profile back to LC3S-V28 (Casper van ZylM, 1781-1863), or a clean break showing a different van Zyl line.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LHF3-P9K