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Person PER-001413

Cornelis Petrus Janse van Vuuren

18 May 1813 – 4 September 1863 · Janse van Vuuren line

Connection to the Koup

Lived on Haggas No. 145 in this district (1863-09-04).

Names

Baptismal name
Cornelis Petrus
Given
Cornelis Petrus
Surname
Janse van Vuuren

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
Johannes Marthinus Janse van Vuuren
Mother
Adriana Hermina Kock
Brothers and sisters
Catharina Adriana Janse Van Vuuren
Married
Maria Magdalena Elisabeth van der Westhuizen
Children

A life in the record

  1. 18 May 1813 born Born
  2. 16 February 1840 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842)
  3. 4 September 1863 died Died
  4. undated land Lived on it, Haggas No. 145

Ground they are on record on

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.

Stories

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.

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

[SRC-249] FARMER, of the District of Prince Albert. His own death notice gives his age as fifty and his death as 4 September 1863 "at the residence at [?Hoeagus]". Father of five, husband of Maria Magdalena Elisabeth van der WesthuizenH, and BROTHER OF Catharina Adriana (PER-000605) who married Gert Adriaan OosthuizenM - which is how the van Vuurens of Wilgemond join this project's families. Two of his children are baptised in the Beaufort West register: BWB-232-11 (1839) and BWB-261-07 (1841).

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