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Person PER-000094

Elizabeth "Bettie" Maria Swanepoel (van Eck)

about 1917 – ? · Swanepoel line

Connection to the Koup

Lived on Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) in this district (192X).

Names

Baptismal name
Elizabeth Maria
Called
Bettie
Given
Elizabeth Maria
Surname
Swanepoel

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

  1. about 1917 born Born
  2. the 1920s land Lived on it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)

Ground they are on record on

Stories

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.

Research notes

[SRC-072] The thesis's principal oral informant, interviewed 1998 and 2002. Grew up on Botterkraal; married Joseph Willem van Eck at Prince Albert 25 Jun 1940 and was a widow at 26 when he died in a harvester accident on 11 Apr 1944, with a daughter of two and a baby of one month. Almost everything in the model about daily life at Botterkraal and Zeekoegat comes from her.

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