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Person PER-001349

Abraham Hermanus De Vries

26 April 1862 – 10 December 1943

Married into the family

  1. Abraham Hermanus De Vries
  2. Dina Magdalena Theron
  3. Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
  4. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Names

Surname
De Vries

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
Dina Magdalena Theron
Children

A life in the record

  1. 26 April 1862 born Born
  2. 10 December 1943 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

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 Dina Magdalena TheronL. 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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