Sara Fourie (1705-c.1771)
1705 – about 1771 · historical
Names
- Baptismal name
- Sara
- Given
- Sara
- Surname
- Fourie
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
- Married
- Adriaan van Wyk (1701-1771)
- Children
- Susanna van Wyk, Louis van Wyk (1726-1805)
A life in the record
- 1705 born Born
- about 1771 died Died
Stories
What we don't know
- 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.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[17 Sep 2026] Added with her husband Adriaan van WykH (PER-002074) as the parents of Louis van WykH (PER-002072) and Susanna van WykH (PER-000748). [TREE] born 1705 (29 Nov 1705 in the family-tree), died about 1771. De Villiers' FOURIE family (SRC-656, Deel 1) has 'Sara, gedoopt 29 November 1703, zie Adriaan van Wijk': same day, year 1703 against the tree's 1705, one OCR-prone digit apart [TO VERIFY]. Godmother at her grandson Louis's Paarl baptism, 9 May 1755 (SRC-657). No FamilySearch id in the family-tree export.
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.