Hendrik Storm (1757-1812)
1757 – 1812 · Storm line
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
- Father
- Willem Storm
- Mother
- Neeltjie Hoogendijk
- Married
- Aletta Jacoba Potgieter 11 June 1797
A life in the record
- 1757 born Born
- 11 June 1797 married Married Aletta Jacoba Potgieter
- 1812 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 G4W6-B5R] Son of the Leiden couple. Married ALETTA JACOBA POTGIETER at CAPE TOWN on 11 JUNE 1797 [FS] - the marriage that puts this family at the Cape. Seven children, 1797 to 1807. He also had a common-law marriage in 1786 with Jacoba Florentina Briel (GL3H-XXT) and a son Hendrik born 1788 (GL3H-Z31). THE TREE HOLDS HIM (, 'about 1757 - about 1822') WITH NO PARENTS AT ALL; FamilySearch supplies the Leiden generation above him. 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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