Matthys Booyens

active 1868 · Booyens line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Antjesfontein No. 14 (1868-09-25).

Names

Baptismal name

Matthys

Given

Matthys

Surname

Booyens

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. 25 September 1868 land Held it, Antjesfontein No. 14

Ground they are on record on

• Antjesfontein No. 14 held it · 25 September 1868 to 18 October 1875

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.

Research notes

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

• Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace

  Matthys BooyensH appears in exactly one land record and nowhere else, no birth, no death, no parents, no marriage, no burial, no estate. Who was this, and which family are they?

  What would settle it A death notice (MOOC 6/9) names parents, spouse and children in one sheet and is the fastest way to attach an isolated landholder. Failing that, the baptism register for the district in the right decade.

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.