Clara Herbst
? – 1714 · van Bengale line
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1715, because their mother died 1714. That is a hard limit, it cannot be otherwise. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Name
- Given
- Clara
- Surname
- Herbst
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
- Mother
- Lysbeth Sanders
'n Lewe in die rekord
- 1714 oorlede Died
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
- Geen geboortedatum is aangeteken nie.
- Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
- 1 other person 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.
Navorsingsnotas
[SRC-259] NAMED IN THE TULBAGH BOOK, and the sentence carries three facts at once. Boeseken and Cairns write that Jan Harmensz Potgieter, having settled beside the Klein Berg River, "made an honest woman of CLARA HERBST, GRANDDAUGHTER OF A FREED SLAVE, LOUIS OF BENGAL, and legitimised their three daughters." So: she was living with Potgieter before they married; their three daughters were born before the marriage and legitimised by it; and her grandfather was an enslaved man who had been freed. She died in 1714, and the inventory of her estate shows the property carried only stock - no vines, despite the census returns crediting Potgieter with 2 000 vines in 1709. The authors note they can offer no explanation for that discrepancy. She is the granddaughter through whom the descent from Louis van BengaleM reaches this family.
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.