J.M.J. van Vuuren (Wilgemond, 1841)
active 1841 · van Vuuren line · unidentified
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Wilgemond No. 179 (1841-04-15).
- event Wilgemond titled on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9 to J.M.J. van Vuuren1841-04-15
Names
- Given
- J.M.J.
- Surname
- van Vuuren
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
- 15 April 1841 land Held it, Wilgemond No. 179
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15 April 1841
event
Wilgemond titled on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9 to J.M.J. van Vuuren
Granted the same day as Middelwater, Vrolikheid, Rondabel and Klein Valie.
Ground they are on record on
- Wilgemond No. 179 held it · 15 April 1841
Stories
- mentioned The van Vuurens of Wilgemond
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] Grantee of Wilgemond No. 179 on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9, 15 April 1841 (DOC-0117) - one of the farms titled on the same day as Middelwater, Vrolikheid, Rondabel and Klein Valie. INITIALS ONLY, deliberately not matched.
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
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The record stops in 1841 and never resumes
second order · B2 trail-ends
Wilgemond No. 179 was worked as far as 1841-04-15, with J.M.J. van VuurenH (Wilgemond, 1841) the last owner on record. 185 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.
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.