Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7)

14 July 1864 – 14 November 1927 · Swanepoel line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) (1919-01-23).

residence Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) 1915
burial Botterkraal 1927-11-14
marriage Maria Susanna Jacoba van Zyl 1882-01-02

Names

Baptismal name: Christiaan Hendrik
Given: Christiaan 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

Father: Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)
Married: Maria Susanna Jacoba van Zyl 2 January 1882
Children: Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5)

A life in the record

14 July 1864 born Born
2 January 1882 married Married Maria Susanna Jacoba van Zyl
1915 land Lived on it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
23 January 1919 land Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
23 January 1919 event Botterkraal bought out of the du Plessis estate
Two Swanepoel cousins trading as Swanepoel en Swanepoel buy Botterkraal, 3,418 morgen, described in the Deeds Office as Ptn. 2 (Boter Kraal) of the farm Jansenskraal No 104. Transport 255.
14 November 1927 land Buried there, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
14 November 1927 event Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel dies at Botterkraal
Died in the farmhouse and buried in the farm cemetery, which holds eight recognisable graves. His cement headstone has its inscription cut on the back - as do the Swanepoel stones at Vliegekraal and Kommetjieskraal - and it is now completely unreadable.
14 November 1927 buried Buried, Botterkraal
cement headstone, INSCRIPTION CUT ON THE BACK and now completely unreadable
14 November 1927 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) held it · 23 January 1919 to 27 January 1927
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) lived on it · 1915
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) buried there · 14 November 1927

Stories

subject Six graves on Botterkraal

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] Married 2 Jan 1882 giving his address as a stock farmer of Wolvenkraal. Farmed Swanepoelsaanleg, Plaatjiesrivier, Putfontein and Losdoorns before buying BOTTERKRAAL in 1919 with his cousin. Died in the farmhouse on Botterkraal 14 Nov 1927 and is buried in the farm cemetery under a cement headstone whose inscription - cut on the back - is now unreadable. MOOC 17452, 1927.

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

23 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2), P.H. du PlessisM is the last owner recorded from 1896-10-08, and the next entry is Christiaan Hendrik SwanepoelH (b6c5d7e3f7) and Pieter Johannes SwanepoelL (b6c5d7e16f1) from 1919-01-23, 23 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 23 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1896 and 1919. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
“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 questions page.