Jacobus Abraham Smuts Walters

25 April 1911 – 1 April 1967

Name

Called: Koos
Given: Koos
Surname: Walters

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.

Naaste familie

Father: Jacobus Abraham Walters
Mother: Magdalena Maria Kruger
Brothers and sisters: 1900Maria Margaretha Walters

1902Maria Jacoba Magdalena Walters

1905Adam Johannes Walters

1906Magdalena Maria Walters

1909Ockert Jacobus Walters

1913Francina Jacoba Walters

1916Carel Hendrik Walters

'n Lewe in die rekord

25 April 1911 gebore Born
1 April 1967 oorlede Died

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Navorsingsnotas

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Jacobus Abraham WaltersM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-395] CALLED KOOS in the family, from the 1987 typescript's list of the seven surviving Walters children (Jacobus).

[11 Aug 2026, SRC-395] THE SMUTS IN HIS NAME IS GENERAL JAN SMUTS, WHO WAS HIS GODFATHER. Before he was born his parents promised him to "Jannie Smuts", feeling they could not afford another child; when he came they would not give him up. "Genl. Smuts was sy peetpa en hom altyd gesien wanneer hy (Smuts) in die Kaap was." He was called KOOS. THIS CORRECTS A READING MADE HERE THE SAME DAY. From the name alone this project inferred a Smuts in the ancestry rather than a politician, on the grounds that this family carries surnames as given names. There IS a Smuts in the ancestry - his mother's mother - but that is not where his name comes from.

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.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Elders

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