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Persoon PER-001846

Hester Helena Janse van Rensburg

17 Maart 1887 – 5 Februarie 1974 · van Rensburg line

Naam

Doopnaam
Hester Helena
Voorname
Hester Helena
Van
Janse van Rensburg

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.

Naaste familie

Vader
Albertus Gerhardus Janse van Rensburg
Moeder
Martha Gertruida Olivier
Broers en susters
Getroud
Frederik Jacobus van Zyl (1865-1940)

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 17 Maart 1887 gebore Born
  2. 5 Februarie 1974 oorlede Died

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

[17 Aug 2026] SIBLING OF PETRUS GIDEON VAN RENSBURG [PER-000173], Frans's great-grandfather, and therefore an aunt or uncle of Maria Magritha "Ria" van Rensburg. In scope under 6, which takes direct ancestors together with their siblings.

SHE OUTLIVED THEM ALL, dying in 1974 at eighty-six, and she married a FREDERIK JACOBUS VAN ZYL. The tree gives her death place as Kempton Park. She is the sister most likely to have been an aunt Ria knew as an adult, and therefore the first person to test against the Somerset West story. LEAD-0212.

Source: the private family tree, which holds seven children for this couple. [TREE] Dates are the tree's and are not register-precise. NO PLACE STRING IS IMPORTED into a place field - 5 - but Van Wyksvlei is repeated by the tree for three of the siblings AND is given independently for Petrus Gideon by SRC-074, so it is written here in words as the family's ground rather than as a resolved place.

[17 Aug 2026, TREE] SHE MARRIED FREDERIK JACOBUS VAN ZYL [PER-001850], born 1865 and dead at Windhoek in 1940, and they had eight children, five of them born at Prieska between 1908 and 1919.

HER ELDEST WAS ANOTHER MARTHA GERTRUIDA - Martha Gertruida van Zyl, born 2 September 1908 at Prieska, died 25 DECEMBER 1949 AT CAPE TOWN. She is Ria's first cousin and twenty years older than her, which is exactly the distance at which a child calls a cousin "aunt". She is the best candidate this record offers for the Martha at Somerset West, and she is not in this model: a first cousin of the anchor's grandmother is a degree beyond the scope rule. LEAD-0212.

HER OWN HOUSEHOLD WENT THE OTHER WAY, which counts against her as the Somerset West aunt: Prieska, then Windhoek, then Kempton Park, where she died in 1974.

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.

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