Ger(H)olm Marincowitz
11 Februarie 1805 – 13 Mei 1890 · Marincowitz line
Verbinding met die Koup
Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Kopjes Kraal (1871-05-17).
- grond Vrolikheid
- huwelik Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge 1844-06-05
- gebeurtenis Gerolm Marincowitz of Trieste marries Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge1844-06-05
Name
- Baptismal name
- Ger(H)olm
- Given
- Ger(H)olm
- Surname
- Marincowitz
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.
Naaste familie
- Father
- Thomas Marincowitz
- Mother
- Margarita Marincowitz
- Married
- Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge 5 Junie 1844
- Children
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- 1845Nicolaas James Marincowitz
- 1847Thomas Frederick Marincowitz
- 1850Gerolm Stephanus Johannes Marincowitz
- 1852George Conrad Marincowitz
- 1855Mary Louisa Marincowitz
- 1857Vincent Jan Adriaan Marincowitz
- 1860Charles Frederik Marincowitz (b.1860)
- 1863Herbert Vincent Marincowitz
- 1866James Caithness Marincowitz
- 1869Lucrezia Geraldine Annetta Marincowitz
'n Lewe in die rekord
- 11 Februarie 1805 gebore Born
- 5 Junie 1844 getroud Married Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge
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5 Junie 1844
gebeurtenis
Gerolm Marincowitz of Trieste marries Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge
[SRC-074] At Uitenhage. Gerolm Marincowitz was born in TRIESTE on 11 February 1805 - the Marincowitz name reaches the Karoo from the Habsburg Adriatic, not from the Netherlands. Ten children. Their eldest, Nicolaas James, married an Oosthuizen at Willowmore in 1866, and from there the two families a
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3 Maart 1858
gebeurtenis
Meiringspoort opened
[SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] Twenty-two kilometres, twenty-five river crossings, built in 223 working days from 1856. Reconnoitred in 1854 by John Charles Molteno with Charles Pritchard, Andrew Geddes Bain and his son Thomas, who preferred Toorwaterpoort but conceded
- 17 Mei 1871 grond Held it, Kopjes Kraal
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13 Mei 1890
gebeurtenis
Ger(H)olm Marincowitz dies at Vrolykheid
Died at Vrolykheid, the farm titled to Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen in 1841 - his own arrival in the country was 1838 and he married into the Hitge family (Wit Plaats's grantees) in 1844, but no deed yet shows how the farm passed from Oosthuisen to Marincowitz hands. See OWN-000052 [TO VERIFY].
- 13 Mei 1890 oorlede Died
- undated grond Held it, Vrolikheid
Grond waarop hulle op rekord is
- Vrolikheid held it · undated to 13 Mei 1890
- Kopjes Kraal held it · 17 Mei 1871
Stories
- mentioned Rondabel Nr. 124: 'n plaasgeskiedenis
- subject Vrolykheid Nr. 177: 'n plaasgeskiedenis
- evidence Gesny, en toe weer aanmekaargewerk
- subject Kopjes Kraal: 'n plaas wat 'n kwart van homself verloor het, en 'n pad wat niemand gebruik nie
Bronne
- Rose Willis and Doreen Atkinson, with Judy Maguire and Bruce Rubidge, "Klaarstroom: Ancient place of clear waters" (Karoo Cameos, 2021) Karoo Development Foundation, Karoo CameosKaroo Cameos, 2021
- "Frederick Oosthuizen - die man wat die Zeekoegat Kerkie 100 jaar gelede gebou het", Lydia Barella Prince Albert Friend (blog)29 Sep 2007
- FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views
Navorsingsnotas
Italian/Croatian patriarch; arrived 1838; Vrolikheid
29 Jul 2026 [SRC-074]: BORN IN TRIESTE, 11 Feb 1805; died 13 May 1890. Married Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeH (PER-000178) at Uitenhage, 5 Jun 1844; ten children. The Marincowitz name reaches the Karoo from the Habsburg Adriatic (Marincovich), not from the Netherlands. Absorbed PER-000020, which I created the same day without checking this row.
29 Jul 2026 [SRC-085] INDEPENDENTLY CORROBORATED: Combrink lists "Marincowitz, Girolemo, geb. 1805" among the nineteenth-century Italian stamvaders of Afrikaans-speaking families - matching our 11 Feb 1805 Trieste birth from a completely different source.
[SRC-008] 31 Jul 2026, from the SAG descendant report: OCCUPATION AND ARRIVAL, verbatim - 'Aangekom in 1838 van Trieste, destyds 'n deel van Oostenryk. Hy is egter Italiaanssprekend en lees 'n Italiaanse Bybel. Hy het sy loopbaan as togganger begin, maar het heel gou 'n paar plase tussen Willowmore en Prins Albert besit.' He arrived in 1838, spoke Italian and read an Italian Bible, began as a transport rider and soon held several farms between Willowmore and Prince Albert. Son of Thomas and Margaretha Marincowitz (PER-000339/PER-000340).
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.
Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.
Oop vrae
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Who was Petrus Oosthuizen of Klaarstroom, and how is he related?
prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0029
The village at the centre of this project's anchor was laid out on his land in 1858-60 and originally named Petersburg for him. He is not in the model's family. Where does he sit, and is he a descendant of the root couple?
Wat dit sou uitmaak The death notice - it names parents, spouses and surviving children.
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N. Hitge's true footprint on Vrolykheid - and his relationship to Frans's own Hitge ancestors
prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0009
Did N. HitgeM's 1841 title (B.W.Q.5.18) actually cover more of Vrolykheid than the ~2,177-morgen Wit Plaats portion recorded for him - and how is N. HitgeM (PER-000044) related to Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeM (PER-000139, Frans's own direct 2x-great-grandmother) and to Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeH (PER-000178, who married into the Marincowitz line)?
Wat dit sou uitmaak A record giving N. HitgeM's full given name and naming his children, matched against Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeM (b.1846) and Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeH (b.1826) - if both are his daughters, or one his daughter and the other a niece or cousin, that settles the family relationship and gives a documented reason one 1841 title could legitimately be cited across multiple later Vrolykheid portions, subdivided within the Hitge family before ever reaching Marincowitz hands
Wat die rekord kortkom
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The record stops in 1871 and never resumes
second order · B2 trail-ends
Kopjes Kraal was worked as far as 1871-05-17, with Ger(H)olm Marincowitz the last owner on record. 155 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.
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The record stops in 1890 and never resumes
second order · B2 trail-ends
Vrolikheid was worked as far as 1890-05-13, with Ger(H)olm Marincowitz the last owner on record. 136 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.
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“F.S. Marincowitz” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them
third order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) names F.S. MarincowitzM, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Marincowitz tenure elsewhere, but none on this boundary and none at this date.
What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.
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
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