A.F. Hitge

active 1939 · Hitge line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) (1939-04-05).

Names

Given: A.F.
Surname: Hitge

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

5 April 1939 land Held it, Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11)

Ground they are on record on

Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) held it · 5 April 1939

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

[DIAGRAM] Named on SG Dgm 3965/1938 (DOC-0157): the diagram belongs to Deed of Partition No. 3399, Deeds Office Cape Town, 5 April 1939, "made in favour of A. F. Hitge". That puts a Hitge on Karee Rivier ground in the Traka in 1939. WHICH Hitge is not established. The model already holds Almero Jacobus Hitge, Charles Frederik Hitge (S012), N. HitgeM (PER-000044) and Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeM (PER-000139), and 9 forbids matching on initials. See LEAD-0055. [1 Aug 2026]

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

Which A.F. Hitge took Spitskop in 1939? priority 3 · LEAD-0055
Who is the A.F. HitgeH named in Deed of Partition No. 3399 of 5 April 1939 over Karee Rivier No. 143 Portion 11?

What would settle it Reading Deed of Partition 3399, which names every party to it in full. The diagram recites only one of them.

What the record is missing

35 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11), I.W. Ferreira JrM is the last owner recorded from 1904-02-08, and the next entry is A.F. HitgeH from 1939-04-05, 35 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0157 records the later arrival but not the 35 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1904 and 1939. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace
A.F. HitgeH 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.