Cornelis Floris Johannes Meyer

15 July 1791 – 21 July 1848 · Meyer line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26) (1841-04-15).

event Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal granted on perpetual quitrent to C.F.J. Meyer1841-04-15

Names

Baptismal name: Cornelis Floris Johannes
Given: Cornelis Floris Johannes
Surname: Meyer

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

Father: Johann Georg Meyer
Mother: Johanna Catharina van der Nest
Brothers and sisters: 1771Anna Maria Meyer

1774Maria Salomina Meyer

1776Catharina Meyer

1779Johanna Cornelia Sophia Meyer

1780Francina Huibrecht Meyer

1783Johan Georg Meyer

1785Daniel Joachim Meyer

1789Daniel Nicolaas Meyer
Children: Johanna Catharina Willemina Meyer, Cornelia Francina Magdalena Elizabeth Meyer

A life in the record

15 July 1791 born Born
15 April 1841 land Held it, Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)
15 April 1841 event Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal granted on perpetual quitrent to C.F.J. Meyer
Audit folio 973 - granted the SAME DAY as Varsche Fontein went to Charl du Toit (folio 1348). Two neighbouring Karoo farms passing into private hands on one April day in 1841.
15 April 1841 event Five Karoo farms granted on perpetual quitrent on one day
Varsche Fontein to Charl du Toit (folio 1348), Spreeuw Fontein to C.F.J. Meyer (folio 973), Rondabel to David Jan Strydom (folio 989), Vrolykheid to Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen, and Wit Plaats to N. Hitge. Five loan farms converted to perpetual quitrent title in a single administrative act.
21 July 1848 event Cornelis Floris Johannes Meyer dies
He held Spreeufontein for barely seven years. Portion 1 - four-fifths of the farm - was cut off two years later, which looks like an estate division. [TO VERIFY]
21 July 1848 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26) held it · 15 April 1841 to 21 July 1848

Stories

evidence Cut, and then stitched

Sources

Spreeuwfontein Portion 1 diagram, part 2 (description)Surveyor-General / Deeds e-portalSG Dgm 3762/1898 pt2
Rondabel No.124 diagram 502/1867Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 502/1867

Research notes

Original quitrent grantee of Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal, 15 Apr 1841, audit folio 973. Diagram calls him "J. son" / "Jurie son" - his father in the tree is Johann Georg (Jurie) Meyer, which confirms the identification. In the tree but NOT a blood relative of Frans - no common ancestor found.

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

30 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow first order · B1 succession
On Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26), Cornelis Floris Johannes MeyerH is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is Lodewyk BothmaM from 1871~, 30 years later, with no person in common. No document records the handover at all.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1871. 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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