Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe (b.1867)
20 February 1867 – 25 June 1943 · Malherbe line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert (1909-09-12).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Hendrik Lodewijk
- Called
- Hennie
- Given
- Hendrik Lodewyk
- Surname
- Malherbe
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Immediate family
- Father
- Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 20 February 1867 born Born
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12 September 1909
event
Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptised at Prince Albert
Born 17 August 1909, baptised four weeks later by ds David Wilcocks. Six witnesses, four of them MALHERBES - the mother's people had come. Among them stood HENDRIK LODEWIJK MALHERBE himself, the man the child was named for. The fifth generation of this family read from an original register, and the
- 12 September 1909 witness Witnessed a baptism · Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen
- 25 June 1943 died Died
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptism · 12 September 1909
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Stories
- mentioned The war reaches the Koup
- mentioned Two Malherbe brothers write to their sister before going to war, 5 October 1899
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
- 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.
Sources
- Baptism, 12 September 1909: Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen, Prince Albert FamilySearch; NG Kerk Prins Albert doop register (catalogued by FamilySearch under a wrong waypoint - see notes)ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKX-97ZS-3; image 166 of 406; Image Group Number 008150240; register page 481, entry 128
Research notes
One of the two brothers who came through the war. Named for his father [PER-000755], who died on 3 January 1901 while it was still being fought. [TREE]
[15 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000284 into this row. The 1909 baptism witness 'Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe' is this man, the child's UNCLE, and not his great-grandfather. PER-000284's note said 'almost certainly Johanna Fredrika Malherbe's father and so FRANS'S 2x-GREAT-GRANDFATHER' - and THAT MAN WAS DEAD. Hendrik Lodewyk MalherbeL senior [PER-000755] died on 3 January 1901, eight years and eight months before the baptism of 12 September 1909. His son of the same name, born 20 February 1867 and living until 1943, was forty-two that day and is the only Hendrik Lodewyk MalherbeL in this model who could have stood there. The chronological test is the first rung of 5's evidence ladder and it settles this on its own. The child was named for the GRANDFATHER, which is what the vernoemingspatroon predicts and is why the note reached for him; being named for a man is not the same as being witnessed by him. Moved across: doopnaam=Hendrik Lodewijk; flourished_edtf=1909; line=Malherbe. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: display_name: kept 'Hendrik Lodewyk MalherbeL (b.1867)', PER-000284 said 'Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe'; given: kept 'Hendrik Lodewyk', PER-000284 said 'Hendrik Lodewijk'.
[15 Aug 2026, FS] FamilySearch id filled from the FamilySearch id field of the family tree exports, matched on this row's own tree id and accepted only because the tree's NAME AND YEARS agree with this row. It is a door to the sources, not a source: nothing here is taken from the profile.
[16 Aug 2026, SRC-446/447] "HENNIE". He went to the front with his three brothers in October 1899, fought at Spioenkop, and was one of the escort that took the 170 British prisoners to Elandsfontein Station. He and Pieter were later taken prisoner and sent to the GROENPUNT camp at Cape Town.
HE OUTLIVED BOTH THE BROTHERS WHO DIED BY FORTY-THREE YEARS, dying in 1943.
[17 Aug 2026] CALLED HENNIE by his brothers, in both the 1899 and the 1937 letters and in the newspaper article. Formal name Hendrik Lodewyk.
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Elders
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