Vincent Charles Marincowitz

23 April 1877 – 6 February 1950 · Marincowitz line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1) (1922-09-30).

• land Uitkyk Nek (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 2) 1935-12-18
• land Marinco (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 3) 1935-12-18
• land Faans Kraal (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 4) 1936-08-24

Names

Baptismal name

Vincent Charles

Given

Vincent Charles

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.

A life in the record

1. 23 April 1877 born Born
2. 30 September 1922 land Held it, Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1)
3. 30 September 1922 event Wit Plaats transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz
   Deed 8479. The Hitge portion of the old Oosthuizen loan farm passes to a Marincowitz.
4. 18 December 1935 land Held it, Uitkyk Nek (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 2)
5. 18 December 1935 land Held it, Marinco (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 3)
6. 18 December 1935 event Uitkyk Nek transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz
   Deed 11074. The second Vrolykheid portion (after Wit Plaats in 1922) to reach Marincowitz hands; both portions' own diagrams trace their 1841 antecedent title to N. Hitge rather than the Oosthuisen grant the model treats the undivided remainder as descending from [TO VERIFY].
7. 18 December 1935 event Marinco transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz
   Deed 11074 per this portion's own diagram (DOC-0068) - but DOC-0028's earlier verso summary gives 24.8.1936, deed 8110, for the same portion. See OWN-000054 [TO VERIFY].
8. 24 August 1936 land Held it, Faans Kraal (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 4)
9. 24 August 1936 event Faans Kraal (Frans Kraal) transferred to Vincent Charles Marincowitz
   Deed 8110. Matches parcels.csv's pre-existing note and DOC-0028's verso deductions summary. Third Vrolykheid portion (after Wit Plaats 1922; Uitkyk Nek and Marinco 1935) into Marincowitz hands - again cites the 1841 N. Hitge antecedent title rather than the Oosthuisen grant the model treats the undi
10. 6 February 1950 event Vincent Charles "Winnie" Marincowitz dies on Vrolikheid
    Gerolm's grandson, and the man who took six Vrolykheid portions between 1922 and 1936, died on the farm aged 72. With his grandfather in 1890 and his father in 1916, that is three generations of Marincowitz men dying on the same ground.
11. 6 February 1950 died Died
12. 1968 event Elizabeth Caroline "Lizzie" Marincowitz buried on Vrolikheid
    She died at Mount Pleasant outside Port Elizabeth and was brought back to Vrolikheid for burial, eighteen years after her husband. Hers is the only burial on that farm the record names.

Ground they are on record on

• Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1) held it · 30 September 1922
• Uitkyk Nek (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 2) held it · 18 December 1935
• Marinco (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 3) held it · 18 December 1935
• Faans Kraal (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 4) held it · 24 August 1936

Stories

• subject Vrolykheid No. 177: a farm history

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

• Vincent Charles Marincowitz

What we don't know

• Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
• 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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

Sources

1. Nasate van Ger(H)olm Marincowitz (SAG descendant report)GISA / LegacySAG Vol 1-17
2. Vrolykheid Portion 1 "Wit Plaats" diagram (coloured)Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 4275/1921
3. Vrolykheid Portion 5 "Marinco" diagramSurveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 4935/1934
4. Vrolykheid Portion 2 "Uitkyk Nek" diagramSurveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 4932/1934
5. Vrolykheid Portion 4 "Faans Kraal" diagramSurveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 4933/1934

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

• 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 HitgeM (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 HitgeM (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

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

  On Wit Plaats (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 1), N. HitgeM is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is Vincent Charles MarincowitzL from 1922-09-30, 81 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0029 records the later arrival but not the 81 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1922. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

• The record stops in 1935 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Uitkyk Nek (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 2) was worked as far as 1935-12-18, with Vincent Charles MarincowitzL the last owner on record. 91 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 1935 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Marinco (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 3) was worked as far as 1935-12-18, with Vincent Charles MarincowitzL the last owner on record. 91 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 1936 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Faans Kraal (Vrolikheid No. 177 Ptn 4) was worked as far as 1936-08-24, with Vincent Charles MarincowitzL the last owner on record. 90 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.