Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl
about 1854 – 1920
Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up
Names
- Surname
- Van Zyl
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
- Wynand van Zyl
- Mother
- Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1829Caspar Cornelis Van Zyl
- 1831Adriana Cecilia Van Zyl
- 1833Ocker Almero Van Zyl
- 1834Susanna Catharina Abigael Van Zyl
- 1836Wynand Johannes Van Zyl
- 1838Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl
- 1839Jan Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1841Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl
- 1841Wynand Casper Van Zyl
- 1842Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl
- 1844Petrus Cornelis Marthinus van Zyl
- 1846Gerrit Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1846Gert Adriaan Van Zyl
- 1848Cornelis Andreas Van Zyl
- 1850Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl
- 1852Cornelia Janette van Zyl
- 1852Isaak Daniel De Vries van Zyl
A life in the record
- about 1854 born Born
- 1920 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
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenM. 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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