Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea van Heerden
active 1818 · van Heerden line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Estate inventory of Ignatius Michael du Plessis taken on the loan farm Rondabel (1818-05-02).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea
- Given
- Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea
- Surname
- van Heerden
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.
A life in the record
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2 May 1818
event
Estate inventory of Ignatius Michael du Plessis taken on the loan farm Rondabel
Half the opstal of Rondabel valued at 500 rixdollars; a half-worn ox wagon at 325; sixteen trek oxen and twenty-nine cattle. A widow and three children under five.
Stories
- mentioned Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- 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.
Sources
- MOOC8/64.12a - Ignatius Michael du Plessis & Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea van Heerden, 2 May 1818Cape Town Archives RepositoryMOOC8/64.12a
Research notes
Widow of Ignatius Michael du PlessisM, left with three children under five in 1818.
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