Frederik Jacobus van Zyl (1865-1940)
29 August 1865 – 15 August 1940 · van Zyl line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Frederik Jacobus
- Given
- Frederik Jacobus
- Surname
- van Zyl
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 Helena Janse van Rensburg
A life in the record
- 29 August 1865 born Born
- 15 August 1940 died Died
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.
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, TREE] HE MARRIED HESTER HELENA JANSE VAN RENSBURG [PER-001846], sister of Frans's great-grandfather Petrus Gideon, so he is in scope under 6 as the spouse of a direct ancestor's sibling.
WHERE THAT HOUSEHOLD WENT MATTERS TO LEAD-0212. Eight children, and the tree puts five of the births at PRIESKA between 1908 and 1919. He died on 15 August 1940 at WINDHOEK; a daughter died in South-West Africa in 1973; Hester Helena died at KEMPTON PARK in 1974. Prieska, then the north, then the Transvaal - and not the Cape.
The place strings are the tree's and 5 treats them as hostile, so they are written here in words and no place row is created. [TO VERIFY]
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.