Muriel Reinet Malherbe
active 1909 · Malherbe line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Muriel Reinet
- Given
- Muriel Reinet
- Surname
- Malherbe
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
- 12 September 1909 witness Witnessed a baptism · Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen
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.
- they stood for
Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe Oosthuizen baptism · 12 September 1909
on Vischat
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
- Baptism, 12 September 1909: Hendrik Lodewijk Malherbe Oosthuizen, Prince Albert FamilySearch; NG Kerk Prins Albert doop register (catalogued by FamilySearch under a wrong waypoint - see notes)ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKX-97ZS-3; image 166 of 406; Image Group Number 008150240; register page 481, entry 128
Research notes
[SRC-089] Baptism witness, Prince Albert, 12 Sept 1909. MURIEL REINET is an unusual pairing - Reinet as in Graaff-Reinet.
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.