Christian Hatting Senior

active 1833–1841 · Hatting line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Klaarstroom Nr. 184 (Klaarstroom A) (1841-04-15).

grond Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) 1841-04-15
gebeurtenis Klaarstroom No.184 surveyed for Christian Hatting Senior1833-08

Name

Baptismal name: Christian
Given: Christian
Surname: Hatting

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

Augustus 1833 gebeurtenis Klaarstroom No.184 surveyed for Christian Hatting Senior
2,773 morgen of Government ground. Hatting was himself the field cornet of the district.
15 April 1841 grond Held it, Klaarstroom Nr. 184 (Klaarstroom A)
15 April 1841 grond Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2)

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Klaarstroom Nr. 184 (Klaarstroom A) held it · 15 April 1841
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2) held it · 15 April 1841 to 17 November 1868

Stories

mentioned Die manne wat die lyne getrek het
mentioned Die vyftiende April 1841

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

Klaarstroom No.184 original diagram (1833)Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 354/1833

Navorsingsnotas

Klaarstroom No. 184 surveyed for him Aug 1833, titled 15 Apr 1841. The field cornetcy itself was "C. HattingM" - he was the field cornet of the district in which Middelwater also lay.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-083] "C. HattingM" appears in the left margin of the 1837 Beaufort West baptism of Ockert Almero OosthuizenL. The same column across the page carries A.F. Smit, M.A. DE BEER, S.G. Mocke, P.E. KrugerM, H.P. v.d. Westhuise, C.F. de Clerk and P.J. Janse van Vuuren - a list of surnames-with-initials that reads exactly like VELDKORNETTE, not like godparents or ministers. If that is what the column is, THE BEAUFORT WEST BAPTISM REGISTER RECORDS THE FIELD CORNETCY, which is the residential unit - and this entry would place the family in C. HattingM's ward in 1836, the same ward the 1833 Middelwater diagram sits in. That would be the single most useful methodological find in the project so far. [TO VERIFY - read the column header on the facing page, and test it against families whose ward is independently known.]

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 1841 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Klaarstroom Nr. 184 (Klaarstroom A) was worked as far as 1841-04-15, with Christian Hatting SeniorH the last owner on record. 185 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.
27 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Botterkraal (Jansenskraal Nr. 104 Gdlt 2), Christian Hatting SeniorH is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is P.H. du PlessisM from 1868-11-17, 27 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0297 records the later arrival but not the 27 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1868. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
“Land granted to C. Hatting 15 April 1841” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Venters Kloof Annex Nr. 183 names Land granted to C. HattingM 15 April 1841, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Hatting 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.