Hendrik Jacobus Mostert
active the 1860s
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1847, because their child born 1863, 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
- Hendrik Jacobus
- Surname
- Mostert
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Immediate family
- Married
- Magdalena Elizabeth Basson
- Children
- Sibella Aletta Sophia Mostert
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death 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.
- Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[11 Aug 2026] A DIRECT ANCESTOR, named on ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS rather than taken from a tree: he is named as the father of Sibella Aletta Sophia MostertH on her 1863 Calvinia baptism entry (SRC-402) and on her 1942 sterfkennis (SRC-403), where the form writes him HENDRIK JACOB. A grandson, Hendrik Jacobus Bruyn, carries his name. NO FAMILYSEARCH ID YET, which is a gap worth closing - the standing rule for imports on this project is that a row should carry one so it can be re-checked against the live tree. Name and the family link only; no dates and no place beyond what the documents give.
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