Willem Storm
No dates recorded · Storm line
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1741, because their child born 1757, so at least 16 years earlier. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Names
- Surname
- Storm
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
- Neeltjie Hoogendijk 15 November 1754
- Children
- Hendrik Storm (1757-1812)
A life in the record
- 15 November 1754 married Married Neeltjie Hoogendijk
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- 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
[FS PH3F-TWN] THE ARRIVAL, or the generation before it. Married NEELTJIE HOOGENDIJK at LEIDEN, SOUTH HOLLAND, on 15 NOVEMBER 1754 [FS] - so this branch of the Storms was still in the Netherlands in the 1750s. Four children: Johanna Sara 1755 (PHJJ-4Y5), Hendrik 1757 (G4W6-B5R), Jacobus (PHJF-VTR), Petrus (PH86-6RP). His son married at Cape Town in 1797, so the family crossed between 1757 and 1797. IN SCOPE UNDER 9a AS AN ARRIVAL QUESTION, not as kin: the Storms are affinal to this family through the Niehaus-Zulch marriage, and the oldest grave on Varsche Fontein reads B. STORM 1848. LEAD-0124.
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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Two Storms on Varsche Fontein, 1848 and 1849 - who were they, and what put them there?
priority 1 · LEAD-0124
Who is the B. STORM buried on Varsche Fontein in 1848 (GRV-0030), and does the grave connect to either of the two Storm lines this family already touches?
What would settle it THE LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT OF MAGDALENA STORM BORN BOTES, died Prince Albert 10 April 1884. Her death notice says she left IMMOVEABLE PROPERTY to be 'all sold immediately and the account filed'. That account names the land. It is now the single most direct route to whether the Storms held ground on or near Varsche Fontein. Failing that, the estate papers of her husband, died Prince Albert 19 August 1855.
Elders
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