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Person PER-001847

Jakobus Johannes Janse van Rensburg

1889 – ? · van Rensburg line

Names

Baptismal name
Jakobus Johannes
Given
Jakobus Johannes
Surname
Janse 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

Father
Albertus Gerhardus Janse van Rensburg
Mother
Martha Gertruida Olivier
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 1889 born Born

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.

Research notes

[17 Aug 2026] SIBLING OF PETRUS GIDEON VAN RENSBURG [PER-000173], Frans's great-grandfather, and therefore an aunt or uncle of Maria Magritha "Ria" van Rensburg. In scope under 6, which takes direct ancestors together with their siblings.

THE TREE HOLDS A SECOND JACOBUS JOHANNES for this couple, undated (, FS GH6Q-JR4). Two children of one name is either a name reused after a death, which 5b says is the commonest trap here, or one child entered twice. Not resolved. [TO VERIFY]

Source: the private family tree, which holds seven children for this couple. [TREE] Dates are the tree's and are not register-precise. NO PLACE STRING IS IMPORTED into a place field - 5 - but Van Wyksvlei is repeated by the tree for three of the siblings AND is given independently for Petrus Gideon by SRC-074, so it is written here in words as the family's ground rather than as a resolved place.

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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