Johan Godfried Mocke
26 July 1739 – 1 January 1808 · Mocke line
Names
- Given
- Johan Godfried
- Surname
- Mocke
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
- Johann Godfried Mocke
- Mother
- Marie Sophie Strauch
- Married
- Sophia Rebecca Plagman
A life in the record
- 26 July 1739 born Born
- 1 January 1808 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.
- 1 other person 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
Sophia Johanna MockeM's paternal grandfather. [TREE] 1739-1808. His widow's 1821 estate inventory (MOOC8/36.35, DOC-0091/INV-0010 [SRC-128]) names their ten children incl. son Frederik Simon (PER-000472). Added 30 Jul 2026 as testator of an incorporated inventory.
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Elders
FamilySearch profile LHKM-T63