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Person PER-001553

Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe (b.1867)

20 February 1867 – 25 June 1943

Names

Given
Hendrik Lodewyk
Surname
Malherbe

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A life in the record

  1. 20 February 1867 born Born
  2. 25 June 1943 died Died

Stories

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

What we don't know

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Research notes

One of the two brothers who came through the war. Named for his father [PER-000755], who died on 3 January 1901 while it was still being fought. [TREE]

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