Jan Adriaan Van Zyl

29 April 1839 – 22 March 1895

Descends from the root couple, 2 generations up

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater (1839).

Names

Given: Johannes Adriaan
Surname: Van Zyl

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.

Immediate family

Father: Wynand van Zyl
Mother: Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
Brothers and sisters: 1829Caspar Cornelis Van Zyl

1831Adriana Cecilia Van Zyl

1833Ocker Almero Van Zyl

1834Susanna Catharina Abigael Van Zyl

1836Wynand Johannes Van Zyl

1838Jacobus Petrus Van Zyl

1841Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl

1841Wynand Casper Van Zyl

1842Johanna Jacomina Van Zyl

1844Petrus Cornelis Marthinus van Zyl

1846Gerrit Adriaan Van Zyl

1846Gert Adriaan Van Zyl

1848Cornelis Andreas Van Zyl

1850Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl

1852Cornelia Janette van Zyl

1852Isaak Daniel De Vries van Zyl

1854~Catharina Cornelia Van Zyl

A life in the record

1839 event Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater
His own death notice gives his birthplace as 'MIDDELWATER, C.C.' - so Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen were ON HER FATHER'S FARM when this son was born, four years after their marriage. It is the first documentary placing of a van Zyl household on Middelwater itself. DATE: the model ca
29 April 1839 born Born
22 March 1895 event Jan Adriaan van Zijl dies at Klaarstroom in the Marico, the name completes its journey
A farmer, married, estate over 25 pounds, will known. Three children of age - C.J., S.J. and W.J. van Zyl - and four minors: Johanna Jacomina (16 Feb 1876), Jacobus Fredrik (6 Sep 1882), Adriana Su[si]lia (24 Apr 1886) and Ester Marea (24 Aug 1893). Reported by D.L. Botha, assistant veldkornet of th
22 March 1895 died Died

Stories

subject The brother-in-law who founded a town

What we don't know

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

Sterfkennis of Jan Adriaan van Zijl, d. 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R.Z.A.R. Weeskamer (Orphan Chamber) death notice, on the printed form 'Overeenkomstig de Wet op de Weeskamer, 10 November 1869'. Supplied by

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-183 - his own death notice] *** BORN AT MIDDELWATER, DIED AT KLAARSTROOM IN THE MARICO. *** His death notice gives his birthplace as 'MIDDELWATER, C.C.' and his place of death as 'te Klaarstroom, Dist. Marico, Z.A.R.' - the Karoo farm his mother grew up on, and the Transvaal farm her cousin named for it in 1848. Landbouwer, married, will known, estate over 25 pounds. Seven children: three of age (C.J. S.J. W.J. van Zyl) and four minors, the youngest born 1893. Reported by D.L. Botha, assistant veldkornet of Wijk Klein Marico. AGE CONFLICT NOT RESOLVED: '55 jaar 4 maanden en 12 dagen' on 22 March 1895 implies a birth about 10 November 1839; this row carries 29 April 1839. Both 1839.

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