Dr. Douw Gerbrand Steyn ¹ ^,2

Born: 7 Mar 1898
Marriage (1): Erna Jessie Armstrong Van Ryneveld on 15 Jan 1930
Died: 25 Jul 1988, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa aged 90 ²

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Spouses/Children:

1. Erna Jessie Armstrong Van Ryneveld

Greta Steyn
Merwyn Van Ryneveld Steyn
Douw Gerbrand Steyn
Ernst Steyn
Helenmarie Debora Gertrude Steyn
Elizabeth Steyn
Ian Izak William Steyn

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

https://www.identitynumber.org/research/dn-name-surname-results.php

bullet Death Notes:

https://www.identitynumber.org/research/dn-name-surname-results.php

And

https://www.identitynumber.org/research/death-records-results.php?id=4496559

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Children. ² There is alist of seven children born to Douw Steyn and Erna Jessie Van Ryneveld at http://pa-in.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=12095310207&topic=4186

1- Greta Steyn (1927 - ?)
Married Wilhelm Coetzee
2- Merwyn van Ryneveld Steyn (1930 - ?) twin
3- Douw Gebrand Steyn (1930 - ?) twin
4- Ernst Steyn (1934 - ?)
5- Helen Marie Steyn (1936 - ?)
Married Koen
6- Elizabeth Steyn (1939 - ?)
Married Louw
7- Ian Steyn (1945 - ?) in USA
Merwyn and Douw were the first recorded van Ryneveld twins ( said Lynette \endash but their surname was Steyn)

• Web Based Info. http://pa-in.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=12095310207&topic=4186

And

http://ancestry24.com/wp-content/uploads/pages/Genealogies%20of%20old%20South%20African%20Families/page_02856.pdf

• Occupation. ² Head of Onderstepoort Veterninary School.

Douw married Erna Jessie Armstrong Van Ryneveld, daughter of William Armstrong Van Ryneveld and Sarah Gertrude Dowell, on 15 Jan 1930. (Erna Jessie Armstrong Van Ryneveld was born on 24 Jun 1907 ¹ ^,2 ^,10 and died on 26 Jun 2002 in Strand, Cape Province, South Africa ² ^,10.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. https://www.identitynumber.org/research/death-records-results.php?id=4496559

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There will inevitably be errors and omissions and the whole purpose of creating this online record, is to invite feedback and corrections.
The data is specifically for non-commercial use and my clear intention is to build family records. The data may, therefore, not be used in any way for the purposes of financial gain.

Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years

Dr. Douw Gerbrand Steyn 1,2

Dr. Douw Gerbrand Steyn ¹ ^,2