Jan Jacobus Adriaan Minie

active 1943 · Minie line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) (1943-06-06).

• event Botterkraal sold, mineral rights held back1943-06-06

Names

Baptismal name

Jan Jacobus Adriaan

Given

Jan Jacobus Adriaan

Surname

Minie

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

1. 6 June 1943 land Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
2. 6 June 1943 event Botterkraal sold, mineral rights held back
   Three deaths, a decade of drought and the Depression end six generations of Swanepoel stock farming. The family moved to Hansrivier and then into Beaufort West. Tradition has it that on the strength of the gold found on nearby Spreeufontein, the mineral rights were reserved out of the sale. Transpor

Ground they are on record on

• Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) held it · 6 June 1943

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

1. '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

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