Walter
Stanley
"Wally"
Wessels
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Brother of
Hermanus Johannes Wessels, Johannes Gerhardus Wessels, Albert Vivian Wessels, Cornelis Jacobus Wessels, Francis Amelia Susan (Gervais) Matthews [half], George Gervais [half] and Lucelle Rosiland (Gervais) Henegan [half]
Husband of
Ethel Marian Ferreira
— married
13 Dec 1951 in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa
Father of
[private daughter (1950s - unknown)]
Died
at age 60
in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Aug 2019
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Biography
Walter was born in 1928. He was the son of Hermanus Wessels and Engela Mattheus. He passed away in 1988.
Sources
- "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970 ", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K21-C6WR : 20 June 2023), Hermanus Johannes Wessels in entry for Walter Stanley Wessels, 1928. Baptism Port Elizabeth 22 Jun 1928 Wessels-1522 16:32, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
- Marriage 13 Dec 1951 "South Africa, Cape Province, Western Cape Archives Records, 1792-1992," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q23Q-23GM : 22 April 2023), Walter Stanley Wessels and Ethel Marian Ferreira, 13 Dec 1951; citing Marriage, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, Western Cape Archives, Cape Town; FHL microfilm . Wessels-1522 16:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
- "South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-X2MJ?cc=2517051&wc=WV44-9B1%3A1598062327 : 28 September 2018), 007735895 > image 1270 of 1458; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa. Probate father 10 Dec 1929 and estate files Wessels-1522 08:35, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Walter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Walter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Christiaan Frederik Wessels
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-FT32034, FTDNA kit #IN81064, MitoYDNA ID T19158 [compare]
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Rosalie (Oosthuizen) van Eeden :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch DS9414641 [compare], yourDNAportal ROSfa5c37a5, Ancestry member rosalie_kock
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~0.39%
Annalise (Broughton) Jordaan :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LE7037808 [compare], Ancestry member annalise_jordaan
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~0.39%
Werner Grobler :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member w_grobler
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