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Person PER-000905

Jacob Daniel Malan

28 January 1872 – 9 November 1955

Descends from the root couple, 3 generations up

  1. Jacob Daniel Malan
  2. Johanna Petronella Oosthuizen
  3. Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
  4. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

Surname
Malan

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
Jacob Daniel Malan
Mother
Johanna Petronella Oosthuizen
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 28 January 1872 born Born
  2. 9 November 1955 died Died

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

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: child of Johanna Petronella 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.

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Elders

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