William Geyer

active 1833

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Klipfontein No. 171 (Witte Klip) (1833-08).

Names

Given: William
Surname: Geyer

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

August 1833 land Held it, Klipfontein No. 171 (Witte Klip)

Ground they are on record on

Klipfontein No. 171 (Witte Klip) held it · August 1833

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

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] The farm Witte Klip or Klip Fontein (No. 171) was surveyed for him by C. Lennox Stretch in August 1833 (DOC-0112). SURVEYED FOR is not the same as titled to: the 1841 quitrent deed Bf.Q.5-43 named on the copy-stamp may or may not have gone to him, which is the same distinction that makes OWN-000022 over-claim on Vrolykheid. Added under the people-related-to-the-land rule. [TO VERIFY]

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What the record is missing

Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace
William GeyerH appears in exactly one land record and nowhere else, no birth, no death, no parents, no marriage, no burial, no estate. Who was this, and which family are they?

What would settle it A death notice (MOOC 6/9) names parents, spouse and children in one sheet and is the fastest way to attach an isolated landholder. Failing that, the baptism register for the district in the right decade.

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.