Charl du Toit

17 September 1797 – ? · du Toit line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Varsche Fontein (1841-04-15).

• event Varsche Fontein granted to Charl du Toit1841-04-15

Names

Baptismal name

Charl

Given

Charl

Surname

du Toit

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.

A life in the record

1. 17 September 1797 born Born
2. 1834 event Varsche Fontein first surveyed by C.L. Stretch for Charl du Toit
   12,074 morgen in the Gouph, then Beaufort District, Field Cornetcy of Mr De Beer. Seven years before the quitrent grant.
3. 15 April 1841 land Held it, Varsche Fontein
4. 15 April 1841 event Varsche Fontein granted to Charl du Toit
5. 15 April 1841 event Five Karoo farms granted on perpetual quitrent on one day
   Varsche Fontein to Charl du Toit (folio 1348), Spreeuw Fontein to C.F.J. Meyer (folio 973), Rondabel to David Jan Strydom (folio 989), Vrolykheid to Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen, and Wit Plaats to N. Hitge. Five loan farms converted to perpetual quitrent title in a single administrative act.

Ground they are on record on

• Varsche Fontein held it · 15 April 1841

Stories

• mentioned The fifteenth of April, 1841
• mentioned Eight stones on Varsche Fontein

What we don't know

• No death date is recorded.
• Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Sources

1. Varsche Fontein No.27 original grant diagram (1834)Surveyor-General / Deeds e-portalSG Dgm 353/1834
2. Rondabel No.124 diagram 502/1867Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 502/1867

Research notes

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.

What the record is missing

• 62 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession

  On Varsche Fontein, Charl du ToitH is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is J.R.G. LuttigM from 1903, 62 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0002 records the later arrival but not the 62 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1903. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

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.