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.
Immediate family
- Married
- Aeltie van der Merwe (1684-1729)
A life in the record
- 1728 died Died
Stories
- mentioned Four grandparents, four countries
- subject The van Rensburgs of the dry north
- ancestor The van Rensburgs of the dry north
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).
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
FamilySearch profile L62Q-MQ2