Claas Jansz van Rensburg
? – 1728 · van Rensburg line
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1701, because their child born 1717, so at least 16 years earlier. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Names
- Given
- Claas Jansz
- Surname
- 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.
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Immediate family
- Married
- Aeltie van der Merwe (1684-1729)
A life in the record
- 1728 died Died
Stories
- mentioned Four grandparents, four countries, from 1684
- subject The van Rensburgs
- ancestor The van Rensburgs
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- 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
[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).
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Elders
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