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Persoon PER-001554

Petrus Jacobus Malherbe (b.1871)

28 Maart 1871 – 16 Julie 1938

Naam

Noemnaam
Pieter
Voorname
Petrus Jacobus
Van
Malherbe

Die formele doopnaam en die naam waarop iemand werklik geroep is, word albei gehou, en nie een word van die ander afgelei nie. Spelling wat van rekord tot rekord verskil, is self getuienis en nie geraas nie.

Foto's

The Malherbe corporalship of the Pretoria commando, from a newspaper cutting, colourised by the paper and numbered 1...
The Malherbe corporalship of the Pretoria commando, from a newspaper cutting, colourised by the paper and numbered 1 to 10. Standing behind, from the left: HENNIE MALHERBE, JAN MALHERBE, Flippie Tulleken of Worcester and two Retiefs of Wellington. Seated in the middle: IZAK MALHERBE, Jan Luttig, Jim Rattray of Worcester and Van Zyl. Lying in front: Kenne Malherbe. — Family collection

Drie geslagte om hierdie mens

Petrus Jacobus Malherbe (b.1871) 1871

Werk uit hoe hierdie mens aan iemand anders verwant is →

Klik op enige naam, dan word dieselfde drie geslagte om daardie mens getrek. Daar is nie 'n stampaar hier nie, en ook nie 'n bopunt aan die boom nie: dit wys net die familie wat die naaste aan die mens staan oor wie jy lees, en 'n oop plek is 'n gaping in die rekord eerder as 'n uitspraak oor iemand.

Naaste familie

Vader
Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe
Moeder
Isabella Johanna Jacoba Zulch
Broers en susters

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 28 Maart 1871 gebore Born
  2. 16 Julie 1938 oorlede Died

Stories

Ander van dieselfde naam

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.

Wat ons nie weet nie

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

Navorsingsnotas

The other brother who came through the war; died at Plumstead, Cape Town. [TREE]

[15 Aug 2026, FS] FamilySearch id filled from the FamilySearch id field of the family tree exports, matched on this row's own tree id and accepted only because the tree's NAME AND YEARS agree with this row. It is a door to the sources, not a source: nothing here is taken from the profile.

[16 Aug 2026, SRC-446/447] "PIETER", THE YOUNGEST, and the one who wrote it down. In 1899 he was a young attorney at Boksburg, a partner of General Beyers. He fought at Spioenkop, helped carry his brother Jan's body down, and rode that night with the escort taking the prisoners to Elandsfontein. He and Hennie ended the war as prisoners at Groenpunt.

THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER, from Plumstead on 2 January 1937, he wrote his sister Bettie a long letter correcting a published account of the battle, and it is the fullest first-hand narrative this project holds of anything: SRC-446. He is plain about what he was and was not - "I was no volunteer; we had our orders from superior officers" - and about what the day did to him: "One grew callous, one's senses got hardened."

He died on 16 July 1938, eighteen months after writing it.

[17 Aug 2026, TREE] NOEMNAAM FROM THE FAMILY TREE EXPORTS, which carry alternate NAME records typed aka. Taken only where the alternate is a SHORT SINGLE NAME that is not a spelling variant of the formal one - the sweep turned up 26 candidates and most were spelling drift (Strijdom for Strydom, Izaac for Isaac), which 5a keeps as evidence but which is not a noemnaam. CONFIRMED INDEPENDENTLY: he signs himself "Pieter" at the foot of his 1937 letter, SRC-446, and the newspaper article calls him Pieter.

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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