Willem Johannes Gous

active 1833–1841 · Gous line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Reim Hoogte Nr. 167 (../1833).

grond Reim Hoogte Nr. 167 1841-04-15
gebeurtenis Reim Hoogte and Venters Kloof surveyed by C. Lennox Stretch1833-08

Name

Given: Willem Johannes
Surname: Gous

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

voor 1833 grond Held it, Reim Hoogte Nr. 167
Augustus 1833 gebeurtenis Reim Hoogte and Venters Kloof surveyed by C. Lennox Stretch
Two more of Stretch's August 1833 surveys in C. Hatting's Zwartberg ward, both touching Middelwater: Reim Hoogte for William Gouse, and Venters Kloof - a HALF loan farm, and the only sheet in the run that names no holder at all.
15 April 1841 grond Held it, Reim Hoogte Nr. 167
15 April 1841 gebeurtenis Reim Hoogte granted to Willem Johannes Gous
Perpetual quitrent BF.W.Q 5-10 - the folio the model had recorded against an unplaced diagram.

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Reim Hoogte Nr. 167 held it · voor 1833
Reim Hoogte Nr. 167 held it · 15 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.

Navorsingsnotas

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Held the loan farm Reim Hoogte No. 167 when Stretch surveyed it in August 1833 (as 'William Gouse') and was granted it in perpetual quitrent on 15 April 1841 (as 'W.J. Gous'). The 1908 Rossel Erf diagram (DOC-0127) gives the full name - WILLEM JOHANNES GOUS - and confirms the grant, which is why this row is a named person and not an initials-only stub. Gous/Gouws/Gouse are the same surname in period spelling; recorded as each document writes it.

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
Reim Hoogte Nr. 167 was worked as far as 1841-04-15, with Willem Johannes GousH 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.