Christiaan Hendrik Van Zyl

1863 – 1937

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Zoutwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 1) (1916-11-15).

Names

Given: Christiaan Hendrik
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: Louis Daniel Francois van Zyl
Brothers and sisters: Jacobus Johannes Petrus van Zyl

A life in the record

1863 born Born
15 November 1916 land Held it, Zoutwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 1)
1937 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
1937 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Zoutwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 1) held it · 15 November 1916

Research notes

[FS, 5 Aug 2026] Son of Louis Daniel Francois van ZylM (PER-001385), who held Klipgat No. 114 to his death. Took ZOUTWATER, Portion 1 of Klipgat No. 114, on deed 8820 of 15 November 1916 - one of ten near-equal shares transferred out of his father's estate on consecutive deeds that day. The deed as transcribed gives the initials only, 'Christian H. van Zyl'; the full name and dates come from FamilySearch GBZL-B3R. He married ELSJE CATHARINA MAGDALENA STORM (LHZQ-VRT, 1868-1945) at PRINS ALBERT on 25 April 1887 and they had thirteen children - a Prince Albert marriage that places the family in this district independently of the deeds. [TO VERIFY - deed 8820 would give the name in full]

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

The record stops in 1916 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Zoutwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 1) was worked as far as 1916-11-15, with Christiaan Hendrik Van ZylH the last owner on record. 110 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.

Elders

FamilySearch profile GBZL-B3R