Brandfort uitgelê op Jacobus van Zyl se plaas Keerom

1866 · national · Prince Albert

47 stands sold in 1866; proclaimed a town in 1874/75; a municipality by 1884; named for President J.H. Brand of the Orange Free State. One published account calls the founder "a Voortrekker from PRINS ALBERT", another has him arriving from Natal after Piet Retief's murder - compatible if he trekked out of the Karoo and was in Natal in February 1838. He is Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl, FamilySearch LCV6-XNT, 1809-1906, who married Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen of Middelwater. [TERTIARY SOURCES - see SRC-177 and LEAD-0045]

Wie hier op rekord is

• 1809 Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl

Almal wat die rekord by hierdie geleentheid noem. Wie saam gestaan het, is die duidelikste oorlewende bewys van watter families na aan watter was; as jy van ander weet wat hier was, is dit die bladsy waarop hulle hoort.

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• Brandfort, Free State: founding on the farm Keerom, 1866 - published accounts

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