Jacobus Petrus Rossouw
23 June 1877 – 10 August 1922
Names
- Given
- Jacobus Petrus
- 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
- 23 June 1877 born Born
- 1922 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 10 August 1922 died Died
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
- 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.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
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 'Jacobus Petrus RossouwL 1877-1922'; the family tree holds a person of that name whose birth AND death years both agree exactly. HOW THIS PERSON CONNECTS TO THE PROJECT: 3 steps - child of Elizabeth Johanna RossouwM → sibling of Johannes Daniel RossouwL → married to Anna Johanna Jacomina BekkerM - who is Anna Johanna Jacomina BekkerM [PER-001176], 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.