Hendrik Jacobus Burger van der Westhuizen

1822 – 31 January 1899

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Magdalena Maria van Wyk.

Names

Surname: van der Westhuizen

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

Married: Magdalena Maria van Wyk
Children: Hendrika Helena van der Westhuizen, Gabriel Jacobus van der Westhuizen

A life in the record

1822 born Born
1899 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
31 January 1899 died Died

What we don't know

Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
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.

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: spouse of Magdalena Maria van WykH. 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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