Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7e16f1)

active 1919–1927 · Swanepoel line

Connection to the Koup

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

event Botterkraal bought out of the du Plessis estate1919-01-23

Names

Baptismal name: Pieter Johannes
Given: Pieter Johannes
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.

A life in the record

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.

Ground they are on record on

Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) held it · 23 January 1919 to 27 January 1927

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

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.
3 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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] Cousin and partner of PER-000089 in "Swanepoel en Swanepoel", joint buyer of Botterkraal 23 Jan 1919. Identified via a 1994 funeral tribute to his son Stephanus Johannes (oom Fanie), born on Botterkraal 15 Apr 1898.

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 SwanepoelM (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.

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.