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Person PER-000510

Anna Loots

active 1769 · Loots line

No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1753, because their child born 1769, so at least 16 years earlier. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Jan de Bruijn baptised (1769-04-16).

Names

Given
Anna
Surname
Loots

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

Children
Jan de Bruin

A life in the record

  1. 16 April 1769 event Jan de Bruijn baptised
    Son of Hendrik de Bruijn and Anna Loots; witnesses Willem Meijer and Elisabeth Loots. Fifty years later he is holding Rondabel in the Koup and married to an Oosthuizen. The congregation is not named on the page.
  2. 16 April 1769 occasion Baptism of their child, Jan de Bruin

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.

Sources

  1. Baptism of Jan de Bruijn, 16 April 1769 (register ANNO 1769, entry 20) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV8-WTLN, cc=1478678, image 1 of 1; pages 90-91, ANNO 1769, entry no. 20

Research notes

[31 Jul 2026 SRC-168] MOTHER OF JAN DE BRUIN (PER-000048). A second Loots, ELISABETH (PER-000512), stands witness at the same baptism - very likely her sister, though the register does not say so and 9 forbids resting on a surname. Loots is a new family in this model.

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Open questions