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Burger in 2015, photo by sportsphotographer.eu /www.bigstockphoto.com/
Birth Name: Schalk Willem Petrus Burger, Jr.
Place of Birth: Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Date of Birth: 13 April, 1983
Ethnicity: Afrikaner [German, Dutch, French Huguenot], English
Schalk Burger is a South African rugby union player. A loose-forward, he played for Western Province, Stormers, Suntory Sungoliath, and Saracens, and the South Africa national team/Springbok XV. He was a member of the 2007 Rugby World Cup-winning team. He is 6′4″.
Schalk is the son of Schalk Burger, Sr., who was also a rugby player. He is married to interior designer Michele de Munck, with whom he has two children.
Schalk’s patrilineal line likely traces to Berndt Burcherdt, later Burger, who was born, c. 1668, in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; and to his wife, Marritje/Maria van der Merwe, who had Dutch and German ancestry. Berndt is the Progenitor, Stamouer in Afrikaans, of the Burger family in South Africa.
Schalk’s paternal grandfather was Schalk Willem Petrus Burger (the son of Cornelis Andreas Johannes Burger and Margaretha Wilhelmina Jacoba Ras). Schalk’s grandfather Schalk was born in South Africa. Cornelis was the son of Schalk Willem Petrus Burger and Anna Jacoba Aletta Burger. Margaretha was the daughter of Matthys Louis Johannes Ras and Beatrix Helena Hendrina Steyn.
Schalk’s paternal grandmother was named Laura Mavis Richards (the daughter of Laura Martha Lucas). Schalk’s great-grandmother Laura was the daughter of Charles Alfons Lucas, who was German; and of Johanna Frederika Smith.
Schalk’s maternal grandfather was Willem Chrisriaan Bouwer Nell (the son of David Jacobus Nell and Hendriena Magdalena Bouwer). Willem was born in South Africa. Hendriena was the daughter of Willem Christiaan Bouwer and Sophia Jacoba Elizabeth Botha.
Schalk’s maternal grandmother was René Kock (the daughter of Frans Sieberhagen Kock and Maria Jacoba Ackermann). René was born in South Africa. Frans was the son of Frans Willem Kock, and of a woman surnamed De Villiers. Maria was the daughter of Christiaan Theodorus Ackermann and Eliza Ellen Dowde Loxton, whose own paternal grandfather was English.