Anna Magdalena De Beer

6 March 1789 – 13 December 1865

Names

Given: Anna Magdalena
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: Matthys Andreas de Beer (b.1766)
Mother: Anna Magdalena Viljoen
Brothers and sisters: Johanna Jacoba Elisabeth De Beer

A life in the record

6 March 1789 born Born
1840 witness Witnessed a baptism
13 December 1865 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 Anna Magdalena de Beer baptism · 1840

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Matthys Andreas de BeerM (b.1766). Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-200] STOOD AS A BAPTISM WITNESS at Beaufort West in 1840 (BWB-239-07), in the veldkornetskap Veldcornetschap [v]an Veuren. Identified on name + date + tree id, never on the name alone: 22 of 52 unique-name matches from this register were rejected because the person's own dates forbade it. [TO VERIFY]

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

FamilySearch profile LCT7-WB7