Petrus Hendrik van Rooyen
1767 – 1842
Names
- Given
- Petrus Hendrik van
- Surname
- van Rooyen
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
- Gerrit Van Rooyen
- Mother
- Martha Jacoba Ferreira
- Children
- Thomas Philippus van Rooyen
A life in the record
- 1767 born Born
- 1842 died Died
What we don't know
- 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
Great-grandfather of Cecilia Maria du Plessis.
[FS] Added 23 Aug 2026 from a FamilySearch fan chart of Cecilia Maria du Plessis supplied by Frans. Thin record: name, dates and the line only. NO PLACE IMPORTED - the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence. NO FamilySearch id captured, because the chart does not show them; that is a gap worth closing, since 10 makes the FS id the citation.
[22 Sep 2026] VERY PROBABLY THE LANGE KLOOF FIELD CORNET OF 1799, 'Petrus Hendrik van RooyenH, Fieldcornet', to whom Okker Oosthuyzen wrote 'Cousin Piet, pray come speedily to our assistance' in July 1799 (SRC-661, pp. 449-453). De Villiers (SRC-656): bapt. 6 March 1768, burger of Swellendam, married 5 March 1786 Johanna Elisabeth SchutteM (PER-001890); children include Gerrit Reijnier (1788, x Adriana Maria Kock 1807), Susanna Jacoba (1789, x Izaak Potgieter), Christiaan Stephanus (1791, x Hester Germina Rautenbach). Identified on name, district and age only [TO VERIFY].
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