Martha Magdalena Soekoe
1854 – 1930 · Kleu line
Names
- Surname
- Soekoe
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Immediate family
- Married
- Pieter Egbert Kleu (1852-1914) 19 August 1872
A life in the record
- 1854 born Born
- 19 August 1872 married Married Pieter Egbert Kleu (1852-1914)
- 1930 died Died
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.
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Research notes
[FS MPQ7-NHR] Married Pieter Egbert KleuL at Graaff-Reinet, 19 August 1872 [FS]; twelve children. Her surname is carried as a given name by a son, GEORGE BARRON SOEKOE KLEU (1891) - the vernoemingspatroon working sideways, and a useful marker for this family. One Soekoe is in the private tree, Frederika Johanna Christina Soekoe (1831-1919), unconnected to these. NOT A CLAIMED KINSHIP: LEAD-0125.
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Open questions
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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
FamilySearch profile MPQ7-NHR