C.M. Fourie

active 1925

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4) (1925-03-24).

event Welbedacht (Portion 4) transferred off Varsche Fontein to C.M. Fourie1925-03-24

Names

Baptismal name: C.M.
Given: C.M.
Surname: Fourie

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

24 March 1925 land Held it, Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4)
24 March 1925 event Welbedacht (Portion 4) transferred off Varsche Fontein to C.M. Fourie
2,536 morgen 291 sq roods. By 1925 roughly two-thirds of the original farm had been sold away.

Ground they are on record on

Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4) held it · 24 March 1925

What we don't know

No birth date is recorded.
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

Varsche Fontein Portion 4 "Welbedacht" diagramSurveyor-General / Deeds e-portalSG Dgm A4049/1924

Research notes

transferee of Welbedacht (Ptn 4) 24 Mar 1925 [floruit] transferee of Welbedacht, 24 Mar 1925 (DOC-0009); an adult in 1925, therefore long deceased.

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

48 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4), C.M. FourieH is the last owner recorded from 1925-03-24, and the next entry is Maria Magritha van RensburgM from 1973, 48 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0053 records the later arrival but not the 48 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1925 and 1973. 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.