Peter Egbert Kleu

1873 – 1946 · Kleu line

Names

Surname

Kleu

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Immediate family

Father

Pieter Egbert Kleu (1852-1914)

Mother

Martha Magdalena Soekoe

Brothers and sisters

Johannes Paulus Kleu (1876-1902)

Married

Maud Sylvia Pankhurst 3 April 1908

Children

Arthur Lionel Kleu

A life in the record

1. 1873 born Born
2. 3 April 1908 married Married Maud Sylvia Pankhurst
3. 1946 died Died

What we don't know

• No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

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Research notes

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Open questions

• Is Arthur Kleu the painter one of the Kleus of Klueplaas? And is Kleu the same surname as Klue? priority 3 · LEAD-0125

  Frans holds a painting of MEIRINGSPOORT by ARTHUR LIONEL KLEU (1915-2008), a shopkeeper, inherited from his grandfather. Middelwater carries the werf name KLUEPLAAS. Are they one family, and are Kleu and Klue one surname?

  What would settle it A common ancestor, or a Kleu/Klue baptism at Prince Albert or Klaarstroom in the nineteenth century that ties either line to the district.

Elders

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