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Person PER-001985

Johannes Petrus Kleu (b.1883)

20 June 1883 – ? · historical

Names

Given
Johannes Petrus
Surname
Kleu

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
Josephus Michael Kleu (1844-1932)
Mother
Gesina Maria Rossouw (1848-1901)
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 20 June 1883 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

[FS batch, 2 Sep 2026] Added from FamilySearch descendancy views, to make the KLEU/KLUE naming pattern testable against the search for SUSANNA MARIA KLUE, the transferee of Vaste Water in 1923 (PER-000326). *** WHY A BATCH THIS SIZE IS HERE AT ALL, STATED SO IT IS NOT MISTAKEN FOR CREEP. *** These people hold no ground in this district and 9a's test would normally stop them at the door. Frans's reason is the vernoemingspatroon: SRC-613 shows Johannes Diederich Kleu named for JOHANNES DEDERICK FERREIRA, his mother's people, at the font in 1870, so naming in this family tracks kin and a sibship list is the instrument for finding a Susanna Maria. EVERY ROW IS FROM A COMPILED TREE. Years only, no places, no documents. Nothing here is evidence and none of it should be cited as such. LEAD-0332.

[SRC-621, 3 Sep 2026] BORN 20 JUNE 1883 and a communicant member at DE RUST on 27 OCTOBER 1928. *** HE WAS THE SECOND-RANKED CANDIDATE FOR THE REMHOOGTE WAR GRAVE AND THIS RULES HIM OUT. *** He was put forward because his name reads J. P., which is what the war record's '(Piet) Johannes' implies, and because his family is Langkloof: his brothers baptise at Uniondale in 1910 (SRC-617) and Doornrivier, where the man was killed, is in the Langkloof. He was alive in 1928, so he is not that man. The exclusion is worth more than the candidacy was: it is the FIRST in this search made on a record rather than on a compiled death year, and every other exclusion still rests on tree data. LEAD-0332. The record also moves his family from Uniondale to DE RUST, where this project already holds 'KLUE J.D. 1869-1940' in the main cemetery.

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