Matthys Andries De Beer

20 April 1852 – before 1952

Names

Surname

De Beer

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

Zacharias Johannes Hendricus de Beer

Mother

Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen

Brothers and sisters

• 1852Ockert Almero De Beer
• 1853Carel Johannes Lotz De Beer
• 1857Petronella Elizabeth Jacoba De Beer
• 1857Zacharias Johannes Hendrikus De Beer
• 1860Maria Susanna De Beer
• 1861Susanna Margaretha De Beer
• 1863Johanna Susanna De Beer
• 1864Anna Elizabeth Christina De Beer
• 1867Leonora Deborah De Beer

A life in the record

1. before 1952 died Died
2. 20 April 1852 born Born

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.

• Matthys Andries de Beer (b.1799)

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

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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