Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7)

13 Februarie 1799 – 26 Maart 1885 · Swanepoel line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Vlakfontein (Koup) (1833-07).

grond Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka) 1841-04-15
woonplek Vlakfontein (Koup) 1827
woonplek Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka) 1837

Name

Baptismal name: Pieter Johannes
Given: Pieter Johannes
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: Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter 29 April 1844
Children: 1827Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)

1831Jacobus Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7e5)

1845Jan Adriaan Swanepoel

1851Johannes Hendrik Swanepoel

'n Lewe in die rekord

13 Februarie 1799 gebore Born
1827 grond Lived on it, Vlakfontein (Koup)
Julie 1833 grond Held it, Vlakfontein (Koup)
Julie 1833 gebeurtenis Vlakfontein surveyed by C.L. Stretch
On 24 July 1833 Pieter Johannes Swanepoel signed before field cornet M. de Beer that he was "volkomen te vreeden" with the way surveyor Stretch had measured Vlakfontein and that the beacons had been properly shown to him. General plan No 21, No 9 Vlakfontein. The same surveyor and the same field cor
24 Julie 1833 geleentheid Survey te Vlakfontein
1837 grond Lived on it, Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka)
19 November 1838 gebeurtenis The letter from Kouka
Pieter Johannes Swanepoel writes to magistrate Jacobus Meintjes about the case of "H. Oostuijsen en van de permanente hottentotte". Khoi families - he names Piet Stuurman, a second Piet Stuurman, Kobus Stuurman, Oranje and Dikkop - had settled on his commonage at Whaai Kraal and would not leave; Oos
15 April 1841 grond Held it, Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka)
15 April 1841 gebeurtenis Rietkuil No. 119 granted to Pieter Johannes Swanepoel
14,379 morgen on the Kouka River in the field cornetcy of Traka, granted on perpetual quitrent in the district of Beaufort West. AK: Beaufort West Quits Vol 5 Fol 35. THE EIGHTH FARM DOCUMENTED ON 15 APRIL 1841.
29 April 1844 getroud Married Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter
8 November 1846 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop · Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel "Freek Jood"
26 Maart 1885 oorlede Died

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Vlakfontein (Koup) held it · Julie 1833
Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka) held it · 15 April 1841 to 26 Maart 1885
Vlakfontein (Koup) lived on it · 1827
Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka) lived on it · 1837

Wie by hulle gestaan het

Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.

stood for them M. de Beer survey · 24 Julie 1833 · field cornet
no other trace in this model
they stood for Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel "Freek Jood" baptism · 8 November 1846
dates known, no other trace here

Stories

subject Die vyftiende April 1841
evidence Gesny, en toe weer aanmekaargewerk

Ander van dieselfde naam

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

Wat ons nie weet nie

Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.
3 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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

[SRC-072] GRANTEE OF RIETKUIL NO. 118 ON 15 APRIL 1841. Born Graaff-Reinet district, baptised there 11 Aug 1799. Married three times, twenty-one children, outlived two wives and eight of the children. Moved to the Koup about 1825, farmed Vlakfontein (surveyed for him by Stretch in 1833), then Rietkuil on the Kouka from about 1837. Wrote the 19 Nov 1838 letter to magistrate Meintjes (EVT-000103). Died at Rietkuil 26 Mar 1885. family-tree PLACE ERROR: the tree records his death place as "Rietkuil, Middelburg, TRANSVAAL" - it was Rietkuil, Prince Albert, Cape. Corrected here.

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

Why did Swanepoel's Aanleg leave the family in the rinderpest year? prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0101
Swanepoel's Aanleg was sold out of the family on 14 December 1897, to the Venter who had been buying Venterskraal fragments since 1879. Was this distress, or the last step of a deliberate re-assembly of the old Wolwekraal ground?

Wat dit sou uitmaak The price on deed 10724, read against other transfers of the same years.

Wat die rekord kortkom

The record stops in 1885 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka) was worked as far as 1885-03-26, with Pieter Johannes SwanepoelL (b6c5d7) the last owner on record. 141 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.
“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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