Stephanus Johannes Theron

3 September 1828 – 7 January 1879 · Theron line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Rondabel (1868-01-21).

land Rondabel 1872-07-17
event Rondabel granted on perpetual quitrent to Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen and Stephanus Johannes Theron1868-01-21

Names

Baptismal name: Stephanus Johannes
Given: Stephanus Johannes
Surname: Theron

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Three generations around this person

Petrus Jacobus Theron 1787

Abraham Christoffel Bothma (b.1759) 1759 Johanna Barendina Visser 1753

Aletta Francina Bothma 1794

Stephanus Johannes Theron 1828 Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen m. 27 January 1851

Adriana Cecilia Theron 1852~ Petrus Jacobus Theron 1854 Aletta Francina Theron 1856 Dina Magdalena Theron 1858 Aletta Franzina Theron 1860 Ockert Almero Theron 1863 Johanna Aletta Jacomina Theron 1864 Stephanus Johannes Theron 1864 Anna Maria Theron 1867 Susanna Catharina Theron 1868 Martha Maria Jacoba Theron 1870 Abraham Christoffel Theron 1872 Gert Johannes Theron 1875 Anna Maria Theron 1876 Petronella Elizabeth Theron

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Immediate family

Father: Petrus Jacobus Theron
Mother: Aletta Francina Bothma
Married: Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen 27 January 1851
Children: 1852~Adriana Cecilia Theron

1854Petrus Jacobus Theron

1856Aletta Francina Theron

1858Dina Magdalena Theron

1860Aletta Franzina Theron

1863Ockert Almero Theron

1864Johanna Aletta Jacomina Theron

1864Stephanus Johannes Theron

1867Anna Maria Theron

1868Susanna Catharina Theron

1870Martha Maria Jacoba Theron

1872Abraham Christoffel Theron

1875Gert Johannes Theron

1876Anna Maria Theron

·Petronella Elizabeth Theron

A life in the record

3 September 1828 born Born
3 September 1828 event Stephanus Johannes Theron is born in the Klein Roggeveld
Baptised three days later under the veldcornet of Klyn Roggeveld, a wyk of Laingsburg about 150 km north-west of Klaarstroom. Forty years on he was co-granted Rondabel with Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen; he died at Willowmore in 1879. The Roggeveld is the ground the Therons stood on before the Koup.
27 January 1851 married Married Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
21 January 1868 land Held it, Rondabel
21 January 1868 event Rondabel granted on perpetual quitrent to Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen and Stephanus Johannes Theron
Title P.A.Q.1-21. The farm passes from Strydom to Oosthuizen hands.
17 July 1872 land Held it, Rondabel
7 January 1879 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Rondabel held it · 21 January 1868
Rondabel held it · 17 July 1872

Stories

subject Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
mentioned Two Vrolykheid farms, far apart?
mentioned Two weddings, five months apart

Others of the same name

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What we don't know

2 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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Sources

SG Dgm 922/1872 - Portion 1 of the farm Rondable No. 124, Prince AlbertLandmeter-Generaal, KaapstadNo. 922/1872 (written over a struck 161/1872); framed from actual survey 6 June 1872 by J.W. du T. Melvill, Govt. Surveyor; examiner L. Marquard; deducted 29 June 1872, Fred Ruysch, Govt. Sur.; copied from the diagram relating to Transfer Deed No. 208 dated 17.7.1872; Sheet BL-2
Baptism register 1828, pages 106-107: Stephanus Johannes Theron, born 3 September 1828, veldcornetcy KLEIN ROGGEVELDDutch Reformed Church register, supplied via FamilySearch; image numbered 345Opening headed 1828, left leaf p.106, right leaf p.107. The entry is the second on the right leaf, dated 6 September.

Research notes

Co-grantee of Rondabel with Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL, 21 Jan 1868.

29 Jul 2026 [SRC-073]: Stephanus Johannes TheronL, b. 4 Sep 1828 Roggeveld, d. 7 Jan 1879 Willowmore; son of Petrus Jacobus TheronL and Aletta Francina BothmaM. Married DINA MAGDALENA OOSTHUIZEN (PER-000132) at Prince Albert 27 Jan 1851 - sister of his Rondabel co-grantee. Tree.

TREE ANCHOR 29 Jul 2026: Stephanus Johannes TheronL b. 4 Sep 1828 Roggeveld, d. 7 Jan 1879 Willowmore - exactly the dates Pottas gives.

*** [22 Aug 2026] THE 1868 RONDABEL GRANT IS A FAMILY ARRANGEMENT, NOT TWO STRANGERS. *** He married DINA MAGDALENA OOSTHUIZEN (PER-000132), a daughter of Ockert Almero OosthuizenL and Adriana Cecilia VenterM - and his co-grantee on OWN-000021, 21 January 1868, is a JAN ADRIAAN OOSTHUIZEN. Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia's son Johannes Adriaan (PER-000003, 1816-1882) is Dina Magdalena's brother, which would make the two grantees BROTHERS-IN-LAW and explain why a Theron and an Oosthuizen hold one quitrent title together. [TO VERIFY] - the grant is recorded against PER-000046, a Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL row carrying NO dates at all, so the identification is not made here. See LEAD-0269.

*** [23 Aug 2026, SRC-546] HIS OWN BAPTISM REGISTER: born 3 SEPTEMBER 1828, baptised 6 September, and the veldcornetcy is KLEIN ROGGEVELD. *** birth_edtf corrected from 1828-09-04, which came from a compiled tree; a register beats a tree. The place is upgraded from a bare 'Roggeveld' at low confidence to the KLEIN Roggeveld on a register - a wyk of Laingsburg about 150 km north-west of Klaarstroom (PLC-000088). *** SO THE MAN CO-GRANTED RONDABEL IN 1868 WAS BORN IN THE ROGGEVELD AND CAME TO THE KOUP. *** His father was Petrus Jacobus TheronL and his mother Aletta Francina Botma, and Botmas stood witness at the font.

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What the record is missing

27 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Rondabel, David Jan StrydomM (Daniel son) is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL and Stephanus Johannes TheronL from 1868-01-21, 27 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0186 records the later arrival but not the 27 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1868. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
“D.T. Theron F.Z. (erfpacht loan-place)” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Vrolykheid No. 61 (Tulbagh) names D.T. Theron F.Z.M (erfpacht loan-place), a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Theron 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.

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