Johanna Clasina Rossouw
16 March 1850 – 2 December 1898
Names
- Given
- Johanna Clasina
- 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
- 16 March 1850 born Born
- 1898 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 2 December 1898 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 in from a gravestone in the Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery. eGGSA transcribe the stone as 'Johanna Klosina Olivier 1850-1898'; the family tree holds a person of that name whose birth AND death years both agree exactly. SHE WAS FOUND BY HER MAIDEN NAME: a stone gives a married woman her husband's surname and the tree gives her her father's, so matching on the name carved on the stone misses every married woman in the cemetery. HOW SHE CONNECTS: 1 step - child of Gabriel Johannes RossouwM - who is Gabriel Johannes RossouwM [PER-001546], already here.
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