Gerolm Samuel Marincowitz
22 June 1870 – 30 October 1941 · Marincowitz line
Descends from the root couple, 3 generations up
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7) (1934-05-16).
- burial Kopjes Kraal 123 farm cemetery 1941-10-30
- event Klein Elandsfontein transferred to Gerolm Samuel Marincowitz1934-05-16
Names
- Baptismal name
- Gerolm Samuel
- Given
- Gerolm Samuel
- 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
- Nicolaas James Marincowitz
- Mother
- Catharina Maria Oosthuizen
- Brothers and sisters
- Children
A life in the record
- 22 June 1870 born Born
- 16 May 1934 land Held it, Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7)
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16 May 1934
event
Klein Elandsfontein transferred to Gerolm Samuel Marincowitz
1,544 morgen 361 sq roods - the Marincowitz family taking ground on Rondabel beside the Oosthuizen portions.
- 30 October 1941 land Buried there, Kopjes Kraal
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30 October 1941
buried
Buried, Kopjes Kraal 123 farm cemetery
Not read by this project; recorded from the eGGSA caption, which is a transcription made by somebody else.
- 30 October 1941 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7) held it · 16 May 1934
- Kopjes Kraal buried there · 30 October 1941
Stories
- subject Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
- subject Kopjes Kraal: a farm that lost a quarter of itself, and a road nobody uses
Sources
- Rondabel Portion 7 "Klein Elandsfontein" diagramSurveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 3273/1933
Research notes
Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel Ptn 7) transferred to him 16 May 1934.
TREE ANCHOR 29 Jul 2026: Gerolm Samuel MarincowitzH, 22 Jun 1870 - 30 Oct 1941, son of Nicholas James MarincowitzM and Catharina Maria OosthuizenL. THE TREE CARRIES HIM TWICE: (b. Kopjeskraal) and (b. Klaarstroom), same parents, same dates. Duplicate to merge.
[31 Jul 2026] MERGED PER-000521 into this row. PROVEN DUPLICATE, resolved on the FamilySearch id. Both rows carry GV47-3C7; an FS id names one person, so these are one person recorded twice. Created by the 31 Jul 2026 one-degree tree pull, which matched on tree id alone - and 255 model people carry no tree id, so any of them one hop from a tree-linked person was added again. Survivor is the pre-existing row; it carries the prose, sources and land links. Moved across: birth_edtf=1870-06-22; death_edtf=1941-10-30. DISAGREEMENTS, kept rather than resolved - the FamilySearch id settles these in one click: tree id: kept '', PER-000521 said ''. Retired ids kept for the trail: tree - a merged FamilySearch id still resolves, so it remains a usable door.
[3 Aug 2026] PROBABLE DUPLICATE of PER-000521 - same name, same 1870-1941 dates. Found while recording SRC-226, which names a GEROLM SAMUEL MARINCOWITZ buying Klein Elandsfontein on Rondabel on 16 May 1934, deed 3875. If these two rows are one man he is a Marincowitz holding ground on one of the five farms, which is worth getting right. Not merged here: ids are permanent and a merge needs a decision, not a guess. [TO VERIFY]
[10 Aug 2026, SRC-358] Baptism 18 September 1870 at Prince Albert.
[11 Aug 2026, MED-000022] HE MAY BE THE MAN IN THE DOUBLE PORTRAIT with Almero Jacobus Hitge OosthuizenL, whose verso names a "G. S. Marincowitz". He is the only live row here with exactly those initials, and a birth in 1870 fits a sitter in his late twenties in the later 1890s; the other G.S. in the model, PER-000189, would have been about forty-six. Initials and age together, which is not the same as a name match, but it is not proof either. [TO VERIFY]
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
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Nine people carry a different FamilySearch id here and in the tree
priority 2 · LEAD-0036
For nine people the model records one FamilySearch id and the family-tree's _FID records another. Which is the live profile, and are the two ids two profiles for one person that want merging on FamilySearch itself?
What would settle it Loading each id and seeing whether it redirects.
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Seven people carry a hand-entered FamilySearch id that the family-tree disagrees with
priority 3 · LEAD-0019
Backfilling familysearch_id from the family-tree's _FID tag agreed with the hand-entered value on 103 of 110 people and disagreed on 7. Which id is current for each - or do both resolve to the same person after a merge?
What would settle it A redirect proves a merge and the survivor id is the one to keep. Two live, distinct profiles means one of them is the wrong person, and the vitals decide which.
What the record is missing
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The record stops in 1934 and never resumes
third order · B2 trail-ends
Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7) was worked as far as 1934-05-16, with Gerolm Samuel MarincowitzH the last owner on record. 92 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.
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“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
FamilySearch profile GV47-3C7