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Person PER-001637

Frans Jacobus Lubbe (1786-1859)

1786 – 1859 · van der Merwe line

Names

Given
Frans Jacobus
Surname
Lubbe

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
Hester Johanna Burger (1792-1852)
Children
Anna Magdalena Lubbe (1815-1860)

A life in the record

  1. 1786 born Born
  2. 7 April 1833 witness Witnessed a baptism · Schalk Willem van der Merwe (1833-1904)
  3. 1859 died Died

Who stood with them

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

Stories

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.

Sources

  1. Baptism 7 April 1833: Schalk Willem Burger, child of Jacobus Adriaan van der Merwe and Anna Magdalena Wilhelmina Lubbe, born 23 February 1833[TO VERIFY] Dutch Reformed Church baptism register, pages 106-107. The congregation is not printed on this opening; this model already places the baptism at Clanwilliam and the date on the page agrees with it to the day.Pages 106 and 107, the entry of 7 April 1833. Supplied as a photograph of the register opening in conversation on 11 Aug 2026. [TO VERIFY] the collection, film, DGS and image number: none is visible on the photograph and per 5a-ii the reading and the citation are two separate claims. The transcription below is read off the image and is not in doubt.

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).

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-377] HE STOOD AS A WITNESS at the baptism of his grandson Schalk Willem Burger at Clanwilliam on 7 April 1833, beside his wife Hester Johanna BurgerH.

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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