Petrus Jacobus Malherbe (1825-1888)

4 May 1825 – 28 July 1888 · 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

Father: Izak Abraham Malherbe
Mother: Elizabeth Catharina Louisa Pepler
Brothers and sisters: 1818Elizabeth Catharina Louisa Malherbe

1820Anna Margaretha Malherbe

1828Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe

1831Isaak Abraham Johannes Malherbe (b.1831)

1833Albertus Jacob Malherbe

1835Izaak Abraham Johannes Malherbe (b.1835)

1838Abraham Johannes Malherbe (1838-1882)

1841Jacobus Petrus Malherbe

1843Daniel Hermanus Malherbe

A life in the record

4 May 1825 born Born
28 July 1888 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

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] Sibling of Hendrik Lodewyk MalherbeL (PER-000755) and a child of Izak Abraham MalherbeM and Elizabeth Catharina Louisa PeplerM - the couple in MED-000039, the oldest photograph in this project. Thin row: name, dates, position in the family. In scope under 6, which takes direct ancestors together with their siblings.

FIRST SON, named for his father's father Petrus Jacobus MalherbeL - exact.

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 L6C5-QNH