Charel Jacobus Blignaut
active 1936 · historical
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1879, because their child born 1895, 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
- Charel Jacobus
- Surname
- Blignaut
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
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
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.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-616] Named on the sterfkennis of Maria Johanna Catharina Susanna Blignaut born Gouws, of Leliefontein, Jansenville, who died 13 February 1936. Her husband, married out of community of property at JANSENVILLE, and the 'langslewende eggenoot, teenwoordig by sterfgeval' who signed the notice at Graaff-Reinet.
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