Jacob Cloete
active 1794 · historical
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1747, because their child born 1763, so at least 16 years earlier. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Names
- Given
- Jacob
- Surname
- Cloete
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
- Children
- Huibrecht Cloete
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
[SRC-601] Named as the father of Huibrecht CloeteH (PER-001938) on her 1837 death notice, with her mother Johanna KrugerM.
[SRC-600] Almost certainly the JACOB CLOETE who stood witness, with Johanna Hendrina Cloete, at his granddaughter Christina Botma's Tulbagh baptism for a child born 30 September 1794. A witness column tracks kin, and the two documents reach the same man from opposite directions. [TO VERIFY] that the witness and the father are one person; only the name and the family join them.
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.