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Person PER-001403

Margaretha Johanna v. Wyk

1794 – 1862

Names

Surname
Wyk

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.

A life in the record

  1. 1794 born Born
  2. 13 May 1839 witness Witnessed a baptism
  3. 1862 died Died

Who stood with them

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

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.

Sources

  1. Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/

Research notes

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-200] THIN RECORD, created because this person STOOD AS A BAPTISM WITNESS at Beaufort West in 1839 (BWB-269-08, veldkornetskap A du Toit, page 269) AND is connected to the families this project is built on. KINSHIP PATH, 8 steps to Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia: married to Gerrit Steenkamp -> sibling of Gesina Maria Steenkamp -> parent of Izaak Heremias Visagie -> parent of Geesje Jacoba Helena Visagie -> parent of Johanna Sophia Martina Snyman -> married to Petrus Cornelis Marthinus van ZylM -> child of Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenM -> child of Adriana Cecilia VenterM. IDENTIFIED ON NAME + DATE, not on the name alone: the name is unique among 44,143 people in the private tree and the tree's dates put this person alive and adult at that font. 22 of 52 unique-name matches from this register were REJECTED because the chronology forbade them. [TO VERIFY] Nothing beyond the tree's own dates and this one appearance is claimed here.

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