J.M.J. van Vuuren (Wilgemond, 1841)
active 1841 · van Vuuren line · unidentified
Verbinding met die Koup
Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Wilgemond Nr. 179 (1841-04-15).
- gebeurtenis Wilgemond titled on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9 to J.M.J. van Vuuren1841-04-15
Name
- Given
- J.M.J.
- Surname
- van Vuuren
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
- 15 April 1841 grond Held it, Wilgemond Nr. 179
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15 April 1841
gebeurtenis
Wilgemond titled on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9 to J.M.J. van Vuuren
Granted the same day as Middelwater, Vrolikheid, Rondabel and Klein Valie.
Grond waarop hulle op rekord is
- Wilgemond Nr. 179 held it · 15 April 1841
Stories
- mentioned Die van Vuurens van Wilgemond
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.
Navorsingsnotas
[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Grantee of Wilgemond No. 179 on quitrent Bf.W. 5-9, 15 April 1841 (DOC-0117) - one of the farms titled on the same day as Middelwater, Vrolikheid, Rondabel and Klein Valie. INITIALS ONLY, deliberately not matched.
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
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The record stops in 1841 and never resumes
second order · B2 trail-ends
Wilgemond Nr. 179 was worked as far as 1841-04-15, with J.M.J. van VuurenH (Wilgemond, 1841) 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.
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.