Petrus Jacobus Malherbe
1759 – 27 September 1834 · Malherbe line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Petrus Jacobus
- Given
- Petrus Jacobus
- Surname
- Malherbe
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
- Anna Catharina Nieuwoudt 1 October 1784
- Children
- Izak Abraham Malherbe
A life in the record
- 1759 born Born
- 1 October 1784 married Married Anna Catharina Nieuwoudt
- 27 September 1834 died Died
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
- 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.
- 2 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[15 Aug 2026] DIRECT ANCESTOR - father of Izak Abraham MalherbeH (PER-001829), the man in the oldest photograph this project holds. Married Anna Catharina NieuwoudtH 1 October 1784; five children recorded.
Source: the family tree exports, the direct-ancestor one of 2,737 people and the fuller one of 7,727, both of which carry FamilySearch ids. [TREE] [FS] Dates are the tree's and are not register-precise. NO PLACE IS TAKEN FROM EITHER FILE - 5 treats family-tree place strings as hostile and these are the auto-geocoded kind.
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 LHJD-SQS