Ger(H)olm Marincowitz

11 February 1805 – 13 May 1890 · Marincowitz line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Kopjes Kraal (1871-05-17).

• land Vrolikheid
• marriage Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge 1844-06-05
• event Gerolm Marincowitz of Trieste marries Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge1844-06-05

Names

Baptismal name

Ger(H)olm

Given

Ger(H)olm

Surname

Marincowitz

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.

Immediate family

Father

Thomas Marincowitz

Mother

Margarita Marincowitz

Married

Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge 5 June 1844

Children

• 1845Nicolaas James Marincowitz
• 1847Thomas Frederick Marincowitz
• 1850Gerolm Stephanus Johannes Marincowitz
• 1852George Conrad Marincowitz
• 1855Mary Louisa Marincowitz
• 1857Vincent Jan Adriaan Marincowitz
• 1860Charles Frederik Marincowitz (b.1860)
• 1863Herbert Vincent Marincowitz
• 1866James Caithness Marincowitz
• 1869Lucrezia Geraldine Annetta Marincowitz

A life in the record

1. 11 February 1805 born Born
2. 5 June 1844 married Married Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge
3. 5 June 1844 event Gerolm Marincowitz of Trieste marries Hester Carolina Adriana Hitge
   [SRC-074] At Uitenhage. Gerolm Marincowitz was born in TRIESTE on 11 February 1805 - the Marincowitz name reaches the Karoo from the Habsburg Adriatic, not from the Netherlands. Ten children. Their eldest, Nicolaas James, married an Oosthuizen at Willowmore in 1866, and from there the two families a
4. 3 March 1858 event Meiringspoort opened
   [SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] Twenty-two kilometres, twenty-five river crossings, built in 223 working days from 1856. Reconnoitred in 1854 by John Charles Molteno with Charles Pritchard, Andrew Geddes Bain and his son Thomas, who preferred Toorwaterpoort but conceded
5. 17 May 1871 land Held it, Kopjes Kraal
6. 13 May 1890 event Ger(H)olm Marincowitz dies at Vrolykheid
   Died at Vrolykheid, the farm titled to Jacobus Johannes Oosthuisen in 1841 - his own arrival in the country was 1838 and he married into the Hitge family (Wit Plaats's grantees) in 1844, but no deed yet shows how the farm passed from Oosthuisen to Marincowitz hands. See OWN-000052 [TO VERIFY].
7. 13 May 1890 died Died
8. undated land Held it, Vrolikheid

Ground they are on record on

• Vrolikheid held it · undated to 13 May 1890
• Kopjes Kraal held it · 17 May 1871

Stories

• mentioned Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
• subject Vrolykheid No. 177: a farm history
• evidence Cut, and then stitched
• subject Kopjes Kraal: a farm that lost a quarter of itself, and a road nobody uses

Sources

1. Rose Willis and Doreen Atkinson, with Judy Maguire and Bruce Rubidge, "Klaarstroom: Ancient place of clear waters" (Karoo Cameos, 2021) Karoo Development Foundation, Karoo CameosKaroo Cameos, 2021
2. "Frederick Oosthuizen - die man wat die Zeekoegat Kerkie 100 jaar gelede gebou het", Lydia Barella Prince Albert Friend (blog)29 Sep 2007
3. FamilySearch Family Tree - Oosthuizen direct line FamilySearchperson pages 972X-2LJ, LZ1Q-GDF, LDQC-R1B, LDQC-R17, LDQC-RTX and their family views

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.

Open questions

• Who was Petrus Oosthuizen of Klaarstroom, and how is he related? priority 1 · LEAD-0029

  The village at the centre of this project's anchor was laid out on his land in 1858-60 and originally named Petersburg for him. He is not in the model's family. Where does he sit, and is he a descendant of the root couple?

  What would settle it The death notice - it names parents, spouses and surviving children.

• N. Hitge's true footprint on Vrolykheid - and his relationship to Frans's own Hitge ancestors priority 2 · LEAD-0009

  Did N. HitgeM's 1841 title (B.W.Q.5.18) actually cover more of Vrolykheid than the ~2,177-morgen Wit Plaats portion recorded for him - and how is N. HitgeM (PER-000044) related to Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeM (PER-000139, Frans's own direct 2x-great-grandmother) and to Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeH (PER-000178, who married into the Marincowitz line)?

  What would settle it A record giving N. HitgeM's full given name and naming his children, matched against Aletta Catharina Maria Helena HitgeM (b.1846) and Hester Carolina Adriana HitgeH (b.1826) - if both are his daughters, or one his daughter and the other a niece or cousin, that settles the family relationship and gives a documented reason one 1841 title could legitimately be cited across multiple later Vrolykheid portions, subdivided within the Hitge family before ever reaching Marincowitz hands

What the record is missing

• The record stops in 1871 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends

  Kopjes Kraal was worked as far as 1871-05-17, with Ger(H)olm Marincowitz the last owner on record. 155 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

  What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

• The record stops in 1890 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends

  Vrolikheid was worked as far as 1890-05-13, with Ger(H)olm Marincowitz the last owner on record. 136 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

  What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

• “F.S. Marincowitz” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner

  A boundary description for Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) names F.S. MarincowitzM, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Marincowitz tenure elsewhere, but none on this boundary and none at this date.

  What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.

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.

Elders

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