a family trust

active 1997

A life in the record

6 November 1997 land Held it, Varsche Fontein No. 27 Remainder
6 November 1997 land Held it, Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4)
6 November 1997 event Varsche Fontein transferred to a family trust
Portions 0 and 4 pass to a family trust and are thereafter held under one title. The registration number and the price are held privately - living beneficiaries, 4.

Ground they are on record on

Varsche Fontein No. 27 Remainder held it · 6 November 1997
Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4) held it · 6 November 1997

What we don't know

This is a body, not a person - it appears here because it held land, and a party to a deed has to live in the same table as the people. Birth, parents and burial do not apply.

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

Sources

WinDeed Property Report - Varsche Fontein 27 Portion 0WinDeed / Deeds Office Cape Town170856736

Research notes

Holds Varsche Fontein Portions 0 and 4 under one title from November 1997, and the two are worked as a single farm [FAMILY]. Recorded as a party, not a person. THE BENEFICIARIES ARE LIVING and nothing about them is published here: the registration number, the purchase date and the price were in this field until 6 Aug 2026 and are now held privately only.

THE NAME IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED. display_name was the trust's registered name and is now 'a family trustH'. The registered name is NOT written here either: a note that records a redaction by repeating the redacted string publishes it, and this field publishes. The registered name is a matter of public record in the deeds registry, but this page prints it directly under Frans's maternal grandmother as the previous owner, and naming it there identifies its beneficiaries - his living parents - by inference. The site does not have to do that joining for a reader. The registered name is held in the private folder under 7 and nowhere in this repository.

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

24 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Varsche Fontein No. 27 Remainder, Maria Magritha van RensburgM is the last owner recorded from 1973, and the next entry is a family trustH from 1997-11-06, 24 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0052 records the later arrival but not the 24 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1973 and 1997. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
24 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Welbedacht (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 4), Maria Magritha van RensburgM is the last owner recorded from 1973, and the next entry is a family trustH from 1997-11-06, 24 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0053 records the later arrival but not the 24 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1973 and 1997. 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.