Jan Brouwer
1647 – ?
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Catrina Bouwmans [REJECTED] (1675-03-19).
Names
- Surname
- Brouwer
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
- Married
- Catrina Bouwmans [REJECTED] 19 March 1675
- Children
- Jan Brouwer
A life in the record
- 1647 born Born
- 19 March 1675 married Married Catrina Bouwmans [REJECTED]
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
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
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: spouse of Catrina Bouwmans [REJECTED]H. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
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.
Elders
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