Jan Adriaan van Zijl dies at Klaarstroom in the Marico, the name completes its journey
22 March 1895 · family · Prince Albert
A farmer, married, estate over 25 pounds, will known. Three children of age - C.J., S.J. and W.J. van Zyl - and four minors: Johanna Jacomina (16 Feb 1876), Jacobus Fredrik (6 Sep 1882), Adriana Su[si]lia (24 Apr 1886) and Ester Marea (24 Aug 1893). Reported by D.L. Botha, assistant veldkornet of the ward Klein Marico. *** HE WAS BORN AT MIDDELWATER AND DIED AT KLAARSTROOM. *** Not the Klaarstroom in the Koup - the one in the Marico, named in 1848 for the place its founder came from. A man born on the original farm died on the ground carrying the transplanted name, 900 km away, and one death notice holds both. Note also his minor daughter of 1886: ADRIANA - the Middelwater great-grandmother's name still running in the Transvaal fifty years after the family left.
Who is on record here
- 1839 Jan Adriaan 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
- Sterfkennis of Jan Adriaan van Zijl, d. 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R. Death notice of JAN ADRIAAN VAN ZIJL, died 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R., aged 55 years 4 months 12 days, on the printed Weeskamer form of 10 November 1869. THE FILE NUMBER HAS NOT BEEN SEEN and is not invented here: the document was supplied as an image without its cover. Z.A.R. Weeskamer estate files are held by the National Archives in Pretoria (TAB) in the MHG series, and this notice should be orderable on the name, the date and the district. [TO VERIFY]