Gerrit Jacobus van Wyk
No dates recorded · live
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1848, because their spouse born 1823, within 25 years. That rests on an assumption about ordinary childbearing ages, not on a document. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Names
- Given
- Gerrit Jacobus
- Surname
- van Wyk
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
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
Named in the death notice of ANNA JACOBA VAN DER MERWE, GEBORE LOUW, 3 March 1868 (SRC-479), as the husband of one of her nine surviving children. The notice gives his name and nothing else - no dates, no place, no farm.
In scope as the spouse of a sibling of a direct ancestor. A thin row on purpose. [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.