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Person PER-000080

Maria Sibella Sachs

about 1691 – 1775/ · Swanepoel line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Pieter Jansz Swanepoel (1712-05-01).

Names

Baptismal name
Maria Sibella
Given
Maria Sibella
Surname
Sachs

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.

Immediate family

Father
Joachim Sachs
Mother
Susanna Holswig
Married
Pieter Jansz Swanepoel 1 May 1712
Children
Pieter Swanepoel, Rosa Swanepoel

A life in the record

  1. about 1691 born Born
  2. 1 May 1712 married Married Pieter Jansz Swanepoel
  3. 1 May 1712 event Pieter Jansz Swanepoel marries Maria Sibella Sachs
    At Stellenbosch. He had been at the Cape twelve years; she was the widow of Jan Christoffel Haak. The start of the Swanepoel family in South Africa - and, eight generations later, of Frans.
  4. 1775/ died Died

What we don't know

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

Sources

  1. 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526

Research notes

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 8x-great-grandmother. [SRC-072] Daughter of Joachim SachsM of Egeln and Susanna HolswigM of Haszleben, Thuringia; born about 1691 at Gusten, Germany. Widow of Jan Christoffel Haak when she married Pieter Jansz SwanepoelH at Stellenbosch, 1 May 1712. Alive after 1775. The tree gives her birth as about 1685; the thesis says about 1691 [TO VERIFY].

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.

Elders

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