Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes

30 Junie 1838 – 14 Oktober 1914 · Beukes line

Verbinding met die Koup

In hierdie distrik begrawe, op Varsche Fontein-plaasbegraafplaas (1914-10-14).

gebeurtenis Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes dies and is buried on Varsche Fontein1914-10-14

Name

Baptismal name: Gerhardus Fransoiys
Given: Gerhardus Fransoiys
Surname: Beukes

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: Barend Hendrik Beukes
Mother: Catharina Elizabeth Lotriet
Married: Aletta Sophia Jacoba Niemann 22 September 1862
Children: Elizabeth Elsje Petronella Beukes, Aletta Sophia Jacoba Opperman (born Beukes)

'n Lewe in die rekord

30 Junie 1838 gebore Born
22 September 1862 getroud Married Aletta Sophia Jacoba Niemann
14 Oktober 1914 grond Buried there, Varsche Fontein
14 Oktober 1914 gebeurtenis Gerhardus Fransoiys Beukes dies and is buried on Varsche Fontein
His headstone still stands in the farm cemetery on what became the Oosthuizen family farm half a century later.
14 Oktober 1914 begrawe Buried, Varsche Fontein farm cemetery
GERHARDUS FRANSOIYS BEUKES, GEB. 30STEN JUNIE 1838, OVERL. 14 DEN OCTOBER 1914
14 Oktober 1914 oorlede Died

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Varsche Fontein buried there · 14 Oktober 1914

Stories

subject Agt klippe op Varsche Fontein

Bronne

Family photograph collection (Frans Oosthuizen)privateDSC_7115.jpg

Navorsingsnotas

Buried on Varsche Fontein; headstone photographed (GRV-0016, IMG-0001). [FS 27DM-B2V] Born 30 June 1838, died 14 October 1914. Parents BAREND HENDRIK BEUKES (1781-1860) and CATHARINA ELIZABETH LOTRIET (1793-1873), married at Beaufort West 19 March 1824. He married ALETTA SOPHIA JACOBA NIEMANN at Prince Albert on 22 September 1862 and they had TWELVE CHILDREN: Elizabeth Elsje Petronella 1863 (LB7K-LLT), Barend Hendrik 1865 (L19Q-M5S), Mattheus Johannes Daniel 1867 (GVR5-5KV), Maria Elizabeth 1870 (KF6M-9DD), Aletta Sophia Jacoba 1872 (GHNC-5TN), Cornelia Gertruida 1875 (GHNC-15T), Gerhardus Francois 1877 (GHNZ-8R3), Susanna Magdalena 1879 (GHNZ-QWK), Johannes Michiel 1881 (GHNZ-325), Hendrik Jacobus 1884 (GHNZ-66W), Anna Johanna 1886 (GHNC-BRQ), Francois Gerhardus 1890 (GHNZ-ZWL).

THE SPELLING: this row and the headstone read GERHARDUS FRANSOIYS BEUKES; FamilySearch reads Gerhardus Francois Beukes. The stone's spelling is kept here because it is what the family cut, and the FS form is recorded alongside.

THE 'COUSIN LINE ON FRANS'S WIFE'S SIDE' CLAIM IS WITHDRAWN AS STATED. This row said 'a cousin line on Frans's wife's side, not an Oosthuizen descent thread'. The second half is right and the first half was never traced. TESTED 7 Aug 2026 against the private tree: FRANS HAS NO BEUKES ANCESTOR AT ALL among 2,736; his wife has TWELVE, the nearest being her grandmother Johanna Christina Beukes born 1932. But NONE OF THE VARSCHE FONTEIN BEUKES IS IN THE TREE - not this man, not his parents, not his wife - so no path between them has ever been walked. THE CONNECTION IS A SURNAME. 9 says name plus date plus place, never name alone, and this project has just spent a day watching that rule fail in somebody else's tree over Jan Nys. LEAD-0123.

[7 Aug 2026] A THIRTEENTH CHILD, PROBABLY. A hand-cut stone standing alone in the veld reads 1874 / G F BEUKES / Juny [15?] - GRV-0032. He is 1838-1914, so it is not him. FamilySearch's twelve have a three-year gap at 1872-1875 and 1874 falls in it; the Gerhardus Francois on record is born 1877, after the gap; and the vernoemingspatroon gives the third son the father's own name, reused when a child dies. An infant son of 1874 fits every part and is in no compiled tree. LEAD-0126.

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

Who is buried in the Varsche Fontein cemetery? Five of seven now named prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0122
Four marked graves are now recorded and only one is identified. Who are Mariha Eliesabet Freysen (1901-1902), Jacobes Johanes Bukes, and B. STORM 1848? Frans has undertaken to give names.

Wat dit sou uitmaak Names from Frans, or a burial register entry. For the stones themselves: straight-on photographs in raking light, which would probably give the Beukes dates and the Freysen day and surname outright.
Is the lone 1874 stone on Varsche Fontein a thirteenth Beukes child? prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0126
A hand-cut stone standing apart from the cemetery reads 1874 / G F BEUKES / Juny [15?]. Is it an infant son of Gerhardus Francois Beukes whose name was reused in 1877, and why is he buried away from the others?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A baptism or burial entry, or a death notice.
Read the graves ACROSS the farms, and against the online grave indexes prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0127
Storm, Botes, Niehaus, Botma, Beukes and Freysen appear on stones on Varsche Fontein and on Vredendal/Spreeufontein, and they intermarry. What does the picture look like when the burial grounds are read as one body of evidence rather than farm by farm, and what do the published grave indexes add?

Wat dit sou uitmaak Nothing settles a question this shape. What it produces is a map: which families are buried where, who married whom, and which farms they moved between.
Are the Varsche Fontein Beukes related to Christa's Beukes, or is it only the surname? prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0123
This project has recorded the Varsche Fontein Beukes as 'a cousin line on Frans's wife's side'. Is there an actual path, or was that inferred from the surname?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A shared ancestor with both descents documented, or a demonstration that the two Beukes families are separate at the Cape.

Elders

FamilySearch-profiel 27DM-B2V