Botterkraal fenced, and the neighbours named

1940 · local · Prince Albert

A sworn statement before attorney Klaas Doedes Haak itemises the cost of ringing Botterkraal with jackal-proof wire: Caroluskraal PS80, F.S. Marincowitz PS90, G. Raubenheimer PS60, T.L. van Eck PS75, Estate late P.J. Swanepoel PS98, plus 2,000 paces of internal wire at PS160 - PS563 in all. An accidental cadastral document: a farm’s whole boundary described by who was on the other side of it. KAB: MOOC 66870, 1939.

Who was there: 4 people

• 1893 Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5)
• · F.S. Marincowitz
• · G. Raubenheimer
• · Theodorus Louis van Eck

Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.

Sources

• 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526

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• subject Six graves on Botterkraal