F.S. Marincowitz

active 1940 · Marincowitz line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Botterkraal fenced, and the neighbours named (1940).

Names

Baptismal name: F.S.
Given: F.S.
Surname: Marincowitz

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

1940 event Botterkraal fenced, and the neighbours named
A sworn statement before attorney Klaas Doedes Haak itemises the cost of ringing Botterkraal with jackal-proof wire: Caroluskraal PS80, F.S. Marincowitz PS90, G. Raubenheimer PS60, T.L. van Eck PS75, Estate late P.J. Swanepoel PS98, plus 2,000 paces of internal wire at PS160 - PS563 in all. An accid

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.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

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] Named as an adjoining owner in the 1940 Botterkraal fencing affidavit - PS90 of jackal-proof wire on the Marincowitz boundary. Puts a Marincowitz farm against Botterkraal near Zeekoegat. Which F.S. [TO VERIFY].

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.