Buffelsfontein 36, farm cemetery (Ladismith district)
0 graves recorded · Buffelsfontein No. 36 (Ladismith)
[11 Aug 2026, SRC-458] A REFERENCE BURIAL GROUND, NOT A FAMILY ONE. Nobody in this record lies here, so far as it knows. It is here because It was empty because only three Western Cape collections had ever been pulled. THE MAP SAYS WHICH KIND IT IS: grounds with nobody of ours draw a PALE cross, family grounds a dark one. Coordinate and cemetery id are eGGSA's own, off the album page, converted out of the degrees and decimal minutes that page carries. Nothing here has been visited. eGGSA album "Buffels fontein 0716003" in the Ladismith_Rural collection. GGSA cemetery id 5662. | [20 Aug 2026] TIED TO PAR-000293. This ground sits 0.6 km from the centroid of Buffelsfontein No. 36, whose SG diagram 483/1832 arrived the same day. IT CARRIES AN OOSTHUIZEN MARRIAGE: 'ZYL Gerrit Johannes, van 1771-1875 & Catherina OOSTHUIZEN'. See LEAD-0256, which also records that the 104-year lifespan in that caption must be a misread or two people on one stone.
Where it is: -33.47650, 21.03090 · GGSA cemetery 5662 · Show it on the map
Photographed here, not yet read
9 photographs of this ground carry a caption on eGGSA that nothing in this project has yet matched to a person. The words are eGGSA's transcription of the stone, kept exactly as written; nobody here has read the photograph. Each one links to its own page on their site.
List them
- CRAFFORD Anna Susanna nee LA GRANGE -1860
- TOIT Helen Josina, du nee CRAFFORD -1870
- ZYL Johannes Jacobus Petrus, van 1826-1873 & Hendrina Margaretha voorheen VOLSCHENK nee CRAFFORD 1835-1899
- MERWE Pieter, van der -1901 :: VAN NIEKERK P. -1901 :: DU PLESSIS Sarel -1901
- ZYL Gerrit Johannes, van 1771-1875 & Catherina OOSTHUIZEN
- ZYL Aletta Elsje, van nee DU TOIT 1877-1955
- ZYL Gerrit Johannes, van 1853-1855 :: VAN ZYL Dirk Johannes 1959-1959 :: VAN ZYL Hendrina Margerita 1860-1861
- ZYL Johannes Jacobus Marthinus, van 1872-1952
- ZYL Pieter Retief, van 1903-1904
The album
See every photograph of this ground on eGGSA
The photographs are eGGSA's and stay on their site; this project links to them and does not copy them. Their albums are expressly incomplete, so a name missing here is not evidence that person is not buried here.