Susanna Maria Klue

active 1923

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) (1923-04-26).

Names

Baptismal name: Susanna Maria
Given: Susanna Maria
Surname: Klue

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

26 April 1923 land Held it, Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5)

Ground they are on record on

Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) held it · 26 April 1923

Stories

subject Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
mentioned The portraits found at Middelwater

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.

Research notes

[SRC-112] Transferee of Vaste Water (PAR-000040) per the 1923 SG diagram (DOC-0076): "This diagram belongs to the Transfer made this [date] in favour of Susanna Maria KlueH, 26.4.1923, deed 3007." Surname read as KLUE off the colour scan, 29 Jul 2026 (was "illegible" on the first pass) - not yet identified in the tree [TO VERIFY]. The transfer date is in conflict with DOC-0039's verso (26/5/1923) - see OWN-000058.

[7 Aug 2026] KLUE AND KLEU ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY ONE SURNAME IN THIS DISTRICT, AND THE MODEL ALREADY HELD BOTH WITHOUT NOTICING. This row is KLUE, on a 1923 transfer of Vaste Water - a portion of Middelwater. PER-000518 is Johannes KLEU, shot at Remhoogte in 1901 - Middelwater's northern neighbour. Two spellings, two documents, one small piece of ground. Middelwater also carries the werf name KLUEPLAAS, where the two portrait sketches (IMG-0004, IMG-0005) were found in an attic. Spelling drift is evidence and both forms are kept. LEAD-0125.

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.

Open questions

Is Arthur Kleu the painter one of the Kleus of Klueplaas? And is Kleu the same surname as Klue? priority 3 · LEAD-0125
Frans holds a painting of MEIRINGSPOORT by ARTHUR LIONEL KLEU (1915-2008), a shopkeeper, inherited from his grandfather. Middelwater carries the werf name KLUEPLAAS. Are they one family, and are Kleu and Klue one surname?

What would settle it A common ancestor, or a Kleu/Klue baptism at Prince Albert or Klaarstroom in the nineteenth century that ties either line to the district.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1923 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5) was worked as far as 1923-04-26, with Susanna Maria KlueH the last owner on record. 103 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.
39 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5), J.D.J. Oosthuyson / O.A. OosthuysenM (reading uncertain) and J.N. BothaM is the last owner recorded from 1884-03-24, and the next entry is Susanna Maria KlueH from 1923-04-26, 39 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0076 records the later arrival but not the 39 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1884 and 1923. 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.