Willem Johannes Jooste & Hermina Elizabeth Cronje · 14 December 1914

I · The union

Married: 14 December 1914 · Johannesburg (special licence)Bible leaf final digit reads 1916/1918 — eyes-on
Husband: Willem Johannes Jooste · born 1886 (the day held) · died 11 October 1950The family Bible's hand-written page gives Willem Johannes's birth as 11 June 1886 and the workbook agrees; his father's 1906 death notice (SRC-2026-034) lists him as born 14 April 1886. The record has read both. What it lacks: which birthday the family kept for him, and his 1886 baptism entry at Potchefstroom.
Wife: Hermina Elizabeth Cronje · born 11 December 1887 · died 24 January 1972
Children: Elizabeth Humphries, born 10 December 1920
Willem Johannes, born 7 April 1926 — died 28 July 1927
Ewald Cronje, born 12 October 1928

II · Two houses, one shield

the shield divides per pale at the centre; the husband's arms dexter, the wife's sinister (CAP-MAR-001 sect.1, Fox-Davies ch. 33)

dexter · Jooste — the line surname (Joost / Joosten)
sinister · Cronje — G3 — Hermina Elizabeth Cronje, m. Willem Johannes Jooste 1914

The husband's house takes the dexter half, the wife's the sinister — the marshalling of a marriage. Where a house's arms are drawn they are drawn as the record states them and at the record's certainty (a candidate match from an armorial is shown lighter); a hatched field, on the "how sure" lens, means the record does not hold that house's arms as established; a plain field with no arms named is open by design, not empty by neglect.

III · What this union kept

The hand-written page in the family Bible: Willem Johannes and Hermina Elizabeth Cronje, and their children — Elizabeth, Willem, and Ewald Cronjé.

The baptism certificate, Potchefstroom, 8 January 1929 — their youngest, Ewald Cronjé, as far as the record can read it.

IV · What only the family can tell

The year of the marriage. The workbook says 14 December 1914; the family Bible's hand-written page gives the same day and month with a final digit that reads 1916 or 1918. One look at the original settles it.
Willem Johannes Jooste's birth date. The family Bible's hand-written page gives Willem Johannes's birth as 11 June 1886 and the workbook agrees; his father's 1906 death notice (SRC-2026-034) lists him as born 14 April 1886. The record has read both. What it lacks: which birthday the family kept for him, and his 1886 baptism entry at Potchefstroom.
Cronje's parents. The record holds Hermina Elizabeth Cronje's birth and marriage; her parents, their places and anything kept from her side are not yet in it.
The estate. Willem Johannes died at Klerksdorp on 11 October 1950: his estate file belongs to the Master of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal, whose 1869–1958 files are online (the same collection the 1889 and 1906 estates came from) — the record's next primary source for this union.

V · Where this comes from

SRC-2026-034 — Willem Johannes Jooste Jr (G4) — Master of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal — Death Notice + Joint Will + Codicils — d. 16 January 1906 Braamfontein, Johannes
SRC-2026-063 — Jooste Family Bible (Dutch BIJBEL; presented Transvaal 15 Sept 1881) — printed Familie-Register leaves (1828 parents / 1848-1869 children / 1877 marriages / dea