J.R.G. Luttig

about 1824 – 4 February 1914

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Varsche Fontein (1903).

• event Varsche Fontein amended title to J.R.G. Luttig1903

Names

Baptismal name

J. R. G.

Given

J. R. G.

Surname

Luttig

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

Immediate family

Married

Johanna Barendina Christofora Bothma

Children

Jan Roeland Georg LUTTIG

A life in the record

1. about 1824 born Born
2. 1903 land Held it, Varsche Fontein
3. 1903 event Varsche Fontein amended title to J.R.G. Luttig
4. 19 June 1903 event Amended titles issued for both Spreeuwfontein and Varsche Fontein on one day
   Spreeuwfontein Remainder ("Klein Waterval", folio 973) to J.C. Muller under P.A.Q.6-1; Varsche Fontein (folio 1048) to J.R.G. Luttig under P.A.Q.6-2. Consecutive deed numbers, same day, same Surveyor-General department.
5. 1914 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
6. 4 February 1914 died Died

Ground they are on record on

• Varsche Fontein held it · 1903

Stories

• mentioned The Prince Albert gold rush
• mentioned Eight stones on Varsche Fontein

What we don't know

• Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

1. Spreeuwfontein Remainder "Klein Waterval" diagram + amended titleSurveyor-General / Deeds e-portalSG Dgm 1/1903

Research notes

These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.

Open questions

• The Prins Albert ledematenregister is a census of this congregation. Work it as a run. priority 1 · LEAD-0128

  Four openings of the members' register have now been read and they name well over a hundred people between 1854 and 1861, with ages, dates and the kerkraad's signatures. What does the whole register give if it is read as a run rather than looked up name by name?

  What would settle it Nothing settles a question this shape; it produces a roll of who was here and when, against which every other record can be checked.

What the record is missing

• The record stops in 1903 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends

  Varsche Fontein was worked as far as 1903, with J.R.G. LuttigH the last owner on record. 123 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

  What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

• 62 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession

  On Varsche Fontein, Charl du ToitM is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is J.R.G. LuttigH from 1903, 62 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0002 records the later arrival but not the 62 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1903. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.

Elders

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