Johannes Hendrik Mostert

active 1855–1857 · Mostert line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Wolwekraal No. 17 (1855-11-20).

• event Wolwekraal divided in two1857-03-10

Names

Baptismal name

Johannes Hendrik

Given

Johannes Hendrik

Surname

Mostert

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.

A life in the record

1. 20 November 1855 land Held it, Wolwekraal No. 17
2. 10 March 1857 event Wolwekraal divided in two
   Less than two years after buying it, Mostert and Venter split the farm into two equal halves of 7,251 morgen. On the same day 2,000 morgen of the Venter half was registered to Jacobus Johannes Swanepoel as Swanepoel’s Aanleg - transports 149, 150 and 151.

Ground they are on record on

• Wolwekraal No. 17 held it · 20 November 1855 to 10 March 1857

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.

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

Sources

1. '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

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