Peter Egbert Kleu
1873 – 1946 · 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
- Mother
- Martha Magdalena Soekoe
- Married
- Maud Sylvia Pankhurst 3 April 1908
- Children
- Arthur Lionel Kleu
A life in the record
- 1873 born Born
- 3 April 1908 married Married Maud Sylvia Pankhurst
- 1946 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-BYX] Father of Arthur Lionel KleuH. Married MAUD SYLVIA PANKHURST at MOSSEL BAY, 3 April 1908 [FS]; two sons, Peter Egbert (1910-1995) and Arthur Lionel (1915-2008).
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-BYX