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Person PER-001613

Daniel Jacobus Janse van Rensburg (1793-1893)

1793 – 1893 · van Rensburg line

Names

Given
Daniel Jacobus
Surname
Janse van Rensburg

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.

Immediate family

Father
Barend Johannes Jansen van Rensburg (1766-1801)
Mother
Susanna Sophia van der Merwe (1768-1840)
Married
Hester Helena Jooste (1795-1856)
Children
Jacobus Jansen van Rensburg (1815-1895)

A life in the record

  1. 1793 born Born
  2. 1893 died Died

Stories

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

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[TREE, via a FamilySearch fan chart Name, dates and the FamilySearch id only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence (see PER-000760).

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.

Elders

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