Dorothea Regina Loots
12 August 1852 – 21 July 1924
Names
- Surname
- Loots
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
- Johannes Hendrik Swanepoel 19 July 1869
- Children
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- 1870Pieter Johannes Swanepoel
- 1871Elizabeth Maria Susanna Swanepoel
- 1871Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Swanepoel
- 1873Dorothea Regina Swanepoel
- 1876Philippus Cornelis Petrus Loots Swanepoel
- 1877Johannes Hendrik Swanepoel
- 1881Anna Catharina Swanepoel
- 1883Jan Adriaan Swanepoel
- 1886Johanna Adriana Swanepoel
- 1891Francina Christina Swanepoel
A life in the record
- 12 August 1852 born Born
- 19 July 1869 married Married Johannes Hendrik Swanepoel
- 21 July 1924 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
- 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 Johannes Hendrik SwanepoelL. 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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