Maria Magdalena Elisabeth Janse van Vuuren
active 1863 · Janse van Vuuren line
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1856, because their mother born 1814, at most 42 at the birth. That rests on an assumption about ordinary childbearing ages, not on a document. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Names
- Given
- Maria Magdalena Elisabeth
- Surname
- Janse van Vuuren
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
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Carel Frederik Gustavus Petzer
Stories
- mentioned The van Vuurens of Wilgemond
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-249] Third-named child on her father's 1863 death notice, and THE ONLY ONE RECORDED AS MARRIED - the notice reads "married to [C.P.?] Petzer". Named for her mother, per the Cape naming pattern. The Petzer marriage is a new surname for this project. [TO VERIFY]
[4 Aug 2026, SRC-253] Her husband is now named in full: CAREL FREDERIK GUSTAVUS PETZER (PER-001437), who also completed her mother's death notice in 1887 and signed it "Cousin in law of deceased".
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