Wed. William Petrus Burger

active 1823

Name

Surname: Burger

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 Mei 1823 grond Held it, Tygerhoek Nr. 689

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Tygerhoek Nr. 689 held it · 15 Mei 1823

Stories

mentioned Die van der Merwes van die Hantam

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

[10 Aug 2026, SRC-359] HELD TYGERHOEK IN ERFPACHT IN 1823. The diagram names her only as 'de Wed. William Pets. Burger', the widow of William Petrus Burger, and gives her no name of her own. That is recorded as the record has it rather than tidied away, per 5a; the gap is the document's and not this project's. Added under the 6 amendment for people related to the land. NOT CONNECTED TO THE BURGERS ALREADY HELD HERE, of whom this model has seven in the van der Merwe and van Rensburg ancestry, including Hester Johanna BurgerM (PER-001638, 1792-1852) whose grandson was christened Schalk Willem BURGER van der Merwe. A link is worth testing and is not assumed. [TO VERIFY] LEAD-0149.

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 1823 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Tygerhoek Nr. 689 was worked as far as 1823-05-15, with Wed. William Petrus BurgerH the last owner on record. 203 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.