Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)
16 April 1827 – 8 September 1909 · Swanepoel line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg) (1879-04-22).
- residence Wolwekraal No. 17 1851
- residence Antjesfontein No. 14 1866
- residence Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg) 1879
Names
- Baptismal name
- Frederik Hendrik
- Given
- Frederik Hendrik
- Surname
- Swanepoel
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
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Booyens 14 April 1845, Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina Beukes 2 March 1880
A life in the record
- 16 April 1827 born Born
- 14 April 1845 married Married Catharina Elizabeth Johanna Booyens
- 1851 land Lived on it, Wolwekraal No. 17
- 1866 land Lived on it, Antjesfontein No. 14
- 1879 land Lived on it, Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg)
- 22 April 1879 land Held it, Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg)
- 2 March 1880 married Married Catharina Carolina Wilhelmina Beukes
- 8 February 1898 occasion Will at Prince Albert
- 8 September 1909 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg) held it · 22 April 1879 to 14 December 1897
- Wolwekraal No. 17 lived on it · 1851
- Antjesfontein No. 14 lived on it · 1866
- Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg) lived on it · 1879
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- stood for them G.D. Rossouw will · 8 February 1898 · witness
- stood for them S. de Kock will · 8 February 1898 · witness
Sources
- 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526
Research notes
[SRC-072] Born on Vlakfontein in the Koup 16 Apr 1827. Married at fifteen-and-eighteen in the NG Kerk Zwarteberg (Prince Albert) on 14 Apr 1845 - both minors, both fathers' consent required. Farmed Wolwekraal, then Antjesfontein, then Swanepoelsaanleg, which he owned 1879-1897. Bought 5 Market Street, Prince Albert in 1898 and died in that house 8 Sep 1909. His estate took until 1948 to wind up - about seventy heirs, most of them already dead, spread as far as South West Africa.
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
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22 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow
second order · B1 succession
On Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg), Jacobus Johannes SwanepoelM (b6c5d7e5) is the last owner recorded from 1857-03-10, and the next entry is Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelH (b6c5d7e3) from 1879-04-22, 22 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 22 years before it.
What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1857 and 1879. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
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18 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow
second order · B1 succession
On Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg), Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelH (b6c5d7e3) is the last owner recorded from 1879-04-22, and the next entry is Willem Adriaan VenterM from 1897-12-14, 18 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 18 years before it.
What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1879 and 1897. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
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“Estate late P.J. Swanepoel” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them
third order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) names Estate late P.J. Swanepoel, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Swanepoel tenure elsewhere, but none on this boundary and none at this date.
What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.
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
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