Keerom granted as a rekwesplaas - about 6,000 morgen

1839–1843 · family · Prince Albert

After Retief's murder he and others turned back, and got as far as the place later called KEEROM. He meant to rest there before trekking on, liked it, and asked the NATALSE VOLKSRAAD to grant it to him. About 6,000 MORGEN was granted as a rekwesplaas under the occupation law of the day. NOTE WHAT THAT DATES: a Natalia grant means before the British annexation of 1843, so he was settled on Keerom more than twenty years before he laid a town out on it. [FAMILY]

Who is on record here

• 1809 Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl

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

• Handwritten van Zyl family history, page 2. Jacobus van Zyl (1809–1906), Bloedrivier, Keerom and Brandfort FamilySearch person LCV6-XNT, attached document, page 2

Told in

• subject The brother-in-law who founded a town