Arthur Lionel Kleu
1915 – 2008 · Kleu line
Names
- Surname
- Kleu
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
- Peter Egbert Kleu
- Mother
- Maud Sylvia Pankhurst
A life in the record
- 1915 born Born
- 2008 died Died
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.
Research notes
[FS LKFX-1ZD] SHOPKEEPER AND PAINTER [FAMILY]. Frans holds a PAINTING OF MEIRINGSPOORT by him, inherited from his grandfather. That is the reason this row exists: the picture is a family object and its maker should be nameable. Married Felicity Ann Goodall at the Strand, 25 November 1950 [FS]. Five children born 1951-1955, NOT RECORDED HERE - they are living, and 4 keeps living people out of this model unless they are already in it. WHETHER HE IS ONE OF THE KLEUS OF KLUEPLAAS IS OPEN AND IS NOT ASSUMED - LEAD-0125.
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.
Open questions
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Is Arthur Kleu the painter one of the Kleus of Klueplaas? And is Kleu the same surname as Klue?
priority 3 · LEAD-0125
Frans holds a painting of MEIRINGSPOORT by ARTHUR LIONEL KLEU (1915-2008), a shopkeeper, inherited from his grandfather. Middelwater carries the werf name KLUEPLAAS. Are they one family, and are Kleu and Klue one surname?
What would settle it A common ancestor, or a Kleu/Klue baptism at Prince Albert or Klaarstroom in the nineteenth century that ties either line to the district.
Elders
FamilySearch profile LKFX-1ZD