Johannes Antonie Oelofse de Witt
Dec 1923–2 Apr 1963
Listed in the register’s surname index.
Family
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What the record says
Born Dec 1923 · died 2 April 1963, Sasolburg
| What | When | Where | Noted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriage to | |||
| Birth | Dec 1923 | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa· At the time: Britain and its colonies per the Record Atlas | |
| Marriage to | Feb 2 1948 | Germiston, Johannesburg, South Africa· At the time: Britain and its colonies per the Record Atlas | "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZHT-WSJM : Sun Mar 10 09:11:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Kurt Luwinski and Ivone De Witt, 19 Jun 1948. |
| Death | Sasolburg, South Africa |
Where this comes from
Surname index
The tree this register is built from: one MyHeritage harvest, which is somebody else’s research and has not been checked here beyond what is said below.
No record has been read about this person in this archive.
Notes and corrections
Corrected died
The family record said: no date; Sasolburg
This archive now has: 2 April 1963, Sasolburg
THE TREE'S OWN DUPLICATE, not an outside record. The harvest holds this man twice: 9500005, born December 1923 at Johannesburg, with a death place and no date; and 9500160, listed as HIS SON, of exactly the same name, born circa 1923 at Pretoria, died 2 April 1963 at Sasolburg. A father cannot be born in the same year as his son, and the two die in the same small Free State town. They are one man, and the date of death is on the duplicate. *** INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATION OBTAINED, 20 SEPTEMBER 2026, AND IT DID NOT NEED THE ESTATE FILES. *** "South Africa, Civil Death Registration, 1953-1967" — Entry for JOHANNES ANTONIE OELOFSE DE WITT, 2 APRIL 1963, SASOLBURG, ORANGE FREE STATE, aged 40, born 1923 at PRETORIA (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:DD9Y-PLT2). A national death register says what the tree's uncited duplicate said. IT ALSO SETTLES WHICH HALF OF THE DUPLICATE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BIRTHPLACE — Pretoria, not Johannesburg. AND IT RAISES A DOUBT ABOUT THE BIRTH DATE: the death register makes him 40 on 2 April 1963, and a second marriage found the same day — to ELSIE MARIE GEYER on 25 FEBRUARY 1950 (ark 1:1:6ZHR-NVYN) — makes him 27 then. The two ranges overlap at April 1922 to February 1923, and the tree's "December 1923" falls outside both. Declared ages are not proof; two of them thirteen years apart, agreeing against the same date, are worth recording. See data/dewitt-confirmed.tsv.