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Person PER-000188

Thomas Frederick Marincowitz

13 July 1847 – 20 October 1916 · Marincowitz line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Thomas Frederik Marincowitz dies on Vrolikheid (1916-10-20).

Names

Baptismal name
Thomas Frederick
Given
Thomas Frederick
Surname
Marincowitz

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
Ger(H)olm Marincowitz
Mother
Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge
Brothers and sisters
Married
Hester Cornelia Catharina Oosthuysen, Ignasina Marais
Children

A life in the record

  1. 13 July 1847 born Born
  2. 20 October 1916 event Thomas Frederik Marincowitz dies on Vrolikheid
    Gerolm of Trieste's second son died on the farm his father had held, aged 69. The SAG descendant report gives 22 October and the family tree 20 October; two days apart and unresolved.
  3. 20 October 1916 died Died

Stories

Others of the same name

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.

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. Nasate van Ger(H)olm Marincowitz (SAG descendant report)GISA / LegacySAG Vol 1-17

Research notes

[SRC-074] Second child of Gerolm of Trieste; born Uitenhage.

29 Jul 2026 [TREE]: married Hester Cornelia Catharina OosthuysenH (PER-000374, UNI-000041), daughter of Jacobus Johannes OosthuysenM (PER-000208) - see LEAD-0009.

[SRC-008] 31 Jul 2026, from the SAG descendant report: birth date refined from 1847 to 1847-07-13.

[SRC-008] 31 Jul 2026, from the SAG descendant report: DIED ON VROLIKHEID, 69 years old. DATE CONFLICT NOT RESOLVED: this row carries 1916-10-20 from the family tree, the SAG report says 22 Oct 1916. Two days apart, same year and month; neither is preferred here and the death notice would settle it. [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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