Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina Beukes
30 June 1854 – 1944 · Beukes line
Connection to the Koup
Married into a household on this ground: Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) (1880-03-02).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina
- Given
- Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina
- Surname
- Beukes
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
- Married
- Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) 2 March 1880
A life in the record
- 30 June 1854 born Born
- 2 March 1880 married Married Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)
- 30 March 1943 occasion Will at Prince Albert
- 1944 died Died
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- stood for them C.H.R. van Solms will · 30 March 1943 · witness
- stood for them C.P. Marx will · 30 March 1943 · witness
What we don't know
- 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
- '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
[SRC-072] Daughter of Barend Beukes and Wilhelmina Carolina Jacoba Swanepoel; baptised Prince Albert 7 Jul 1855. Married the 52-year-old widower Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelH on 2 Mar 1880, six months after his first wife died; no children in 29 years of marriage. Their joint will of 8 Feb 1898 left everything to HIS first wife's children. MOOC 93273, 1944. This is the Beukes-Swanepoel link Frans was searching on - a marriage, not a descent.
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.