Who came down from whom
15 lines with real depth beneath them, and 382 people between them. Pick a line and open it a generation at a time.
Built from recorded parentage only. A marriage is not descent and a shared surname certainly is not, so a person appears here when the model holds a row naming their parent. A line is named for whoever stands at the top of it. Where a couple head the same descendants they are one line and both are named, because that is how a family would say it.
10 of these lines arrive before 1850, and they are the earliest this record can show here - here before the district had a village of its own. They are listed first. Not all of them enter on ground: some appear carrying a child to the church at Beaufort West, which was this district’s church before Prince Albert had one, and the line says which. A first appearance is not a date of arrival, and the later ones are no less part of this: a stone cut in 1913 on Varsche Fontein is this community too.