Piet Stuurman
active 1838 · Stuurman line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: The letter from Kouka (1838-11-19).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Piet
- Given
- Piet
- Surname
- Stuurman
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
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19 November 1838
event
The letter from Kouka
Pieter Johannes Swanepoel writes to magistrate Jacobus Meintjes about the case of "H. Oostuijsen en van de permanente hottentotte". Khoi families - he names Piet Stuurman, a second Piet Stuurman, Kobus Stuurman, Oranje and Dikkop - had settled on his commonage at Whaai Kraal and would not leave; Oos
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
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.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
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] One of two men of this name named in P.J. Swanepoel's letter of 19 Nov 1838 as having settled on the commonage at Whaai Kraal and refused to move. Recorded here because the letter is one of the very few documents in this whole record that names Khoi people at all.
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.