Johanna Otto Swanepoel
1 November 1923 – 14 November 1998
Names
- Given
- Johanna Otto
- Surname
- Swanepoel
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
- 1 November 1923 born Born
- 1998 buried Buried, Prince Albert, Denneboom Erf cemetery
- 14 November 1998 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 Prince Albert gravestone. eGGSA transcribe the stone as 'Johanna Otto SwanepoelH 1923-1998'; the tree holds a person of that name with both years exact. HOW THEY CONNECT: 1 step - child of Johannes Christoffel SwanepoelM - who is Johannes Christoffel SwanepoelM [PER-000713], already here.
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