Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5)

1893 – 30 January 1948 · Swanepoel line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) (1927-01-27).

land Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) 1940-10-08
residence Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) 192X
event Botterkraal fenced, and the neighbours named1940

Names

Baptismal name: Christiaan Hendrik
Called: Chrisjan
Given: Christiaan Hendrik
Surname: Swanepoel

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: Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7)
Married: Maria Johanna Marais 28 September 1915

A life in the record

1893 born Born
28 September 1915 married Married Maria Johanna Marais
27 January 1927 land Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
the 1920s land Lived on it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
1940 event Botterkraal fenced, and the neighbours named
A sworn statement before attorney Klaas Doedes Haak itemises the cost of ringing Botterkraal with jackal-proof wire: Caroluskraal PS80, F.S. Marincowitz PS90, G. Raubenheimer PS60, T.L. van Eck PS75, Estate late P.J. Swanepoel PS98, plus 2,000 paces of internal wire at PS160 - PS563 in all. An accid
8 October 1940 land Held it, Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)
6 June 1943 event Botterkraal sold, mineral rights held back
Three deaths, a decade of drought and the Depression end six generations of Swanepoel stock farming. The family moved to Hansrivier and then into Beaufort West. Tradition has it that on the strength of the gold found on nearby Spreeufontein, the mineral rights were reserved out of the sale. Transpor
30 January 1948 died Died
February 1948 buried Buried, Woltemade, Cape Town

Ground they are on record on

Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) held it · 27 January 1927 to 8 October 1940
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) held it · 8 October 1940 to 6 June 1943
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) lived on it · the 1920s

Stories

subject Six graves on Botterkraal

Sources

'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526

Research notes

[SRC-072] Gave Botterkraal as his address at his marriage in Sep 1915, four years before it was registered to his father. Fenced the whole farm himself with jackal-proof wire with his four eldest sons, drove 900 merino wethers home on foot from Colesberg over two months, and lost the farm anyway - sold 6 Jun 1943 to pay debts. The family took relief from the ACVV between 1933 and 1939. Died 30 Jan 1948 in Rondebosch Hospital; buried in an unmarked grave at Woltemade, Cape Town.

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

The record stops in 1943 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends
Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) was worked as far as 1943-06-06, with Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnrH (b6c5d7e3f7g5) the last owner on record. 83 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.
“Estate late P.J. Swanepoel” 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 Estate late P.J. Swanepoel, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Swanepoel 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.