J.W. van Zyl (?)

active 1923 · uncertain

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein Nr. 27 Gdlt 3) (1923-03-27).

gebeurtenis Plaat Fontein (Portion 3) transferred off Varsche Fontein1923-03-27

Name

Baptismal name: J.W.
Given: J.W.
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.

'n Lewe in die rekord

27 Maart 1923 grond Held it, Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein Nr. 27 Gdlt 3)
27 Maart 1923 gebeurtenis Plaat Fontein (Portion 3) transferred off Varsche Fontein
2,100 morgen 25 sq roods.

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein Nr. 27 Gdlt 3) held it · 27 Maart 1923

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen geboortedatum is aangeteken nie.
Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Bronne

Varsche Fontein Portion 3 "Plaat Fontein" diagramSurveyor-General / Deeds e-portalSG Dgm A191/1923

Navorsingsnotas

[TO VERIFY] transferee of Plaat Fontein (Ptn 3) 27 Mar 1923; name read from a clerk signature on DOC-0007 [floruit] transferee of Plaat Fontein, 27 Mar 1923 (DOC-0007); an adult in 1923, therefore long deceased.

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.

Wat die rekord kortkom

The record stops in 1923 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Plaat Fontein (Varsche Fontein Nr. 27 Gdlt 3) was worked as far as 1923-03-27, with J.W. van ZylH (?) the last owner on record. 103 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.