Pieter Jansz Swanepoel

26 Januarie 1678 – omstreeks 1757 · Swanepoel line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Maria Sibella Sachs (1712-05-01).

gebeurtenis Pieter Jansz Swanepoel marries Maria Sibella Sachs1712-05-01

Name

Baptismal name: Pieter Jansz
Given: Pieter Jansz
Surname: Swanepoel

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

Married: Maria Sibella Sachs 1 Mei 1712
Children: Pieter Swanepoel, Rosa Swanepoel

'n Lewe in die rekord

26 Januarie 1678 gebore Born
1709 grond Held it, Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren)
1709 grond Lived on it, Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren)
1 Mei 1712 getroud Married Maria Sibella Sachs
1 Mei 1712 gebeurtenis Pieter Jansz Swanepoel marries Maria Sibella Sachs
At Stellenbosch. He had been at the Cape twelve years; she was the widow of Jan Christoffel Haak. The start of the Swanepoel family in South Africa - and, eight generations later, of Frans.
26 Oktober 1747 gebeurtenis Nieuwmunster passes from Swanepoel to Conradie
Pieter Jansz Swanepoel retires and makes his farm over to his son-in-law. The same farm was still in Conradie hands at the end of the twentieth century - 250 years in one family, on the ground where two families began.
omstreeks 1757 oorlede Died

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren) held it · 1709 to 26 Oktober 1747
Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren) lived on it · 1709

Wat ons nie weet 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

'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526

Navorsingsnotas

DIRECT ANCESTOR - Frans's 8x-great-grandfather, via his mother. [SRC-072] Born 26 Jan 1678 at Nieuwmunster, Zuienkerke, near Brugge in West Flanders; came to the Cape in 1699 as a VOC soldier; free burgher 1700. Farmed the place he named Nieuwmunster (PAR-000063) in the Land van Waveren 1709-1747, retiring to Poespasvallei, Robertson, where he died about 1757. Progenitor of the Swanepoel family in South Africa. In the private family tree as Petrus Jansz Swanepoel, 26 Jan 1678 - 1758.

[4 Aug 2026, SRC-259] HE IS IN THE TULBAGH BOOK, ON A NAMED FARM, AND THE DETAIL IS GOOD. Boeseken and Cairns give him a loan place from 1709 "below Witsenberg in the land of Waveren", extended in the 1717 renewal to "over the Breede River", and the freehold grant of NIEUWMUNSTER - 61 morgen - in 1716. In his own petition he says he had already occupied and cultivated it for six years, so from about 1710. HIS OWN CENSUS RETURN of 27 April 1716 was "laboriously written out by this farmer who was not as familiar with the pen as he was with farm implements": 60 muids of corn reaped from a sowing of 6, with ONE slave, some cattle, cows and horses - and the sheep, he records, "been stolen by the Hottentots". AND HE WAS WOUNDED. In the 1715 raid he was hit in the leg by an assegai, alongside Johannes Vosloo and Lammert Lammertsz, who died four days later of a wound to the abdomen. WHAT IT MEANS FOR THIS PROJECT: a Swanepoel ancestor was farming in the Land van Waveren from about 1710, which is direct documentary support for the Tulbagh stage of the migration traced in LEAD-0077 - no longer an inference from geocoded birthplaces.

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

38 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren), Pieter Jansz SwanepoelH is the last owner recorded from 1709, and the next entry is Johannes Hendrik ConradieL from 1747-10-26, 38 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 38 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1709 and 1747. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
“Estate late P.J. Swanepoel” 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 Estate late P.J. Swanepoel, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Swanepoel 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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