J.W. van Zyl (?)

active 1923 · uncertain

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 3) (1923-03-27).

event Plaat Fontein (Portion 3) transferred off Varsche Fontein1923-03-27

Names

Baptismal name: J.W.
Given: J.W.
Surname: van Zyl

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.

A life in the record

27 March 1923 land Held it, Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 3)
27 March 1923 event Plaat Fontein (Portion 3) transferred off Varsche Fontein
2,100 morgen 25 sq roods.

Ground they are on record on

Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 3) held it · 27 March 1923

What we don't know

No birth date is recorded.
No death date is recorded.
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

Varsche Fontein Portion 3 "Plaat Fontein" diagramSurveyor-General / Deeds e-portalSG Dgm A191/1923

Research notes

[TO VERIFY] transferee of Plaat Fontein (Ptn 3) 27 Mar 1923; name read from a clerk signature on DOC-0007 [floruit] transferee of Plaat Fontein, 27 Mar 1923 (DOC-0007); an adult in 1923, therefore long deceased.

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.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1923 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 3) was worked as far as 1923-03-27, with J.W. van ZylH (?) the last owner on record. 103 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.

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.