Hester Petronella Van Eck
21 June 1920 – 23 October 1946
Names
- Given
- Hester Petronella Van
- Surname
- Eck
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
- 21 June 1920 born Born
- 1946 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 23 October 1946 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.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[7 Aug 2026] Brought into the project from a gravestone. eGGSA photograph and transcribe the stone in the Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery as 'Hester P van Eck 1920-1946'; the family tree holds a person of that name whose birth AND death years both agree exactly. HOW THIS PERSON CONNECTS TO THE PROJECT: 1 step - child of Christina Wilhelmina BekkerM - who is Christina Wilhelmina BekkerM [PER-001178], already here. The path is drawn from the private tree's parentage and marriages, which is what [TREE] kinship rests on; the tree's PLACES are not used. Matched on name plus both years, never on name alone.
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.