Aletta Sophia Jacoba Opperman (born Beukes)

15 April 1872 – 13 Januarie 1922 · Beukes line

Verbinding met die Koup

In hierdie distrik begrawe, op Varsche Fontein-plaasbegraafplaas (1922-01).

Name

Surname: Opperman

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: Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes
Mother: Aletta Sophia Jacoba Niemann
Brothers and sisters: Elizabeth Elsje Petronella Beukes
Married: Pieter Jozua Opperman 2 April 1900

'n Lewe in die rekord

15 April 1872 gebore Born
2 April 1900 getroud Married Pieter Jozua Opperman
Januarie 1922 grond Buried there, Varsche Fontein
Januarie 1922 begrawe Buried, Varsche Fontein farm cemetery
A BROKEN FRAGMENT AND MOSTLY UNREADABLE. Letters scratched into cement before it set, in at least four lines. What can be read with any confidence: 'TER' on the top line, and 'BEU' at the end of the bottom line. Scattered capitals between them include what may be A, G, J, C, E, R and N, in no order that can be trusted. NOTHING ELSE IS TRANSCRIBED.
13 Januarie 1922 oorlede Died

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Varsche Fontein buried there · Januarie 1922

Stories

subject Agt klippe op Varsche Fontein

Navorsingsnotas

[FS GHNC-5TN] DAUGHTER OF PER-000029, AND THE REASON THE BEUKES CONNECTION TO THIS FARM RUNS PAST 1914. [FS] Born 15 April 1872 at Prins Albert, christened there 7 July 1872, and DIED ON 13 JANUARY 1922 AT VARSCH FONTEIN - the death place comes from a death notice, and it is eight years after her father was buried on the same farm. She married PIETER JOZUA OPPERMAN at Prins Albert on 2 April 1900 and had nine children between 1900 and 1918. Her FamilySearch profile carries a photograph that appears to be a gravestone, which is worth chasing: it may be one of the markers in this cemetery. ON THIS SITE BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THIS GROUND, not because they are kin: see PER-000029 for what the surname does and does not prove.

[7 Aug 2026] HER GRAVE IS FOUND. GRV-0031, the broken home-made cement marker in the Varsche Fontein cemetery, is hers - identified by Frans; the stone itself yields only TER and BEU. It confirms the death notice from the other end: she died at Varsch Fontein and she is buried there. SHE IS BURIED UNDER CEMENT AND HER FATHER, EIGHT YEARS EARLIER, UNDER BOUGHT MARBLE. Both are in the same small cemetery.

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.

Oop vrae

Are the Varsche Fontein Beukes related to Christa's Beukes, or is it only the surname? prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0123
This project has recorded the Varsche Fontein Beukes as 'a cousin line on Frans's wife's side'. Is there an actual path, or was that inferred from the surname?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A shared ancestor with both descents documented, or a demonstration that the two Beukes families are separate at the Cape.

Elders

FamilySearch-profiel GHNC-5TN