Petrus Johannes Rossouw
28 June 1865 – 15 August 1930
Names
- Given
- Petrus Johannes
- Surname
- Rossouw
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
- 28 June 1865 born Born
- 1930 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 15 August 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.
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 'Petrus Johannes RossouwH 1865-1930'; 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 - sibling of Elsje Dorothea Maryna RossouwM - who is Elsje Dorothea Maryna RossouwM [PER-001355], 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.