Johan Godfried Mocke
25 December 1806 – 17 October 1890 · 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
- Frederik Simon Mocke
- Mother
- Aletta Catharina Roux
- Brothers and sisters
A life in the record
- 25 December 1806 born Born
- 1846 witness Witnessed a baptism · Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge
- 17 October 1890 died Died
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
Aletta Catharina Maria Helena Hitge baptism · 1846
on Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1)
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.
Sources
- Baptism of Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, b. 11 June 1846Dutch Reformed Church register (congregation not identified on the image)Baptism register, pages 910-911, entry for Aletta Katharina Mary Helena Hitges, 1846Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Aletta Catharina RouxM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
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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