Petrus Jacobus Theron
1854 – 7 April 1917 · Theron line
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Names
- Given
- Petrus Jacobus
- Surname
- Theron
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
- Stephanus Johannes Theron
- Mother
- Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1852~Adriana Cecilia Theron
- 1856Aletta Francina Theron
- 1858Dina Magdalena Theron
- 1860Aletta Francina Theron
- 1860Aletta Franzina Theron
- 1863Ockert Almero Theron
- 1864Johanna Aletta Jacomina Theron
- 1864Stephanus Johannes Theron
- 1867Anna Maria Theron
- 1868Susanna Catharina Theron
- 1870Martha Maria Jacoba Theron
- 1872Abraham Christoffel Theron
- 1875Gert Johannes Theron
- 1876Anna Maria Theron
- ·Petronella Elizabeth Theron
- Children
-
- 1877Johanna Elizabeth Theron
- 1879Dina Magdelina Theron
- 1881~Stephanus Johannes Theron
- 1883Johannes Gysbert Theron
- 1884Cecelia Maria Theron
- 1886Adriana Sophia Theron
- 1887Susanna Frederika Theron
- 1888Aletta Francina Theron
- 1890Emmerentia Fredrika Theron
- 1892Martha Maria Theron
- 1896Johanna Ebeldina Jacoba Theron
- 1898Anna Maria Susanna Theron
- 1899Petrus Jacobus Theron
- 1901Isabella Louisa Jacoba Theron
- 1903Christiaan Hendrik Theron
- 1904Maria Johanna Willemina Theron
- 1906Petrus Jacobus Theron
- 1907Frederika Theron
A life in the record
- 1854 born Born
- 1917 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 7 April 1917 died Died
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
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 4 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: child Stephanus Johannes TheronL (PER-000047). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
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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