Samuel "Saamie" Luttig
active 1871 · Luttig line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Samuel
- Called
- Saamie
- Given
- Samuel
- Surname
- Luttig
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.
Stories
- mentioned The Prince Albert gold rush
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.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-068] Bought the 1871 aardvark nugget from Lodewyk BothmaM for £5.50. Nobody in the Luttig family knows what became of it. Later a shareholder in the Prince Albert Goldfields syndicate.
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.