Charel Jacobus Blignaut (b. by 1915)
active 1936 · historical
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1913, because their mother born 1871, at most 42 at the birth. 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
- 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
- Father
- Charel Jacobus Blignaut
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.
- 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. the eldest son, meerderjarig in 1936. One of the five children named on that notice.
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