Bernardus Lambertus Steyl

active 1897–1939

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Klipfontein A No. 174 (1939-08-29).

• land Klipfontein Oost (Klipfontein A No. 174 Ptn 1) 1939-08-29
• event Eastern part of Klipfontein transferred to B.L. Steyl1897-10-28

Names

Given

Bernardus Lambertus

Surname

Steyl

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. 28 October 1897 event Eastern part of Klipfontein transferred to B.L. Steyl
   Deed 9076, diagram 2127/1897. The first of Bernardus Lambertus Steyl's two purchases on this ground.
2. 14 July 1902 event Remainder of Lot C of Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof transferred to B.L. Steyl
   Deed 1027, diagram 2662/1902. With the 1897 purchase and the two Marincowitz pieces, this completed the ground that was surveyed as Klipfontein A in 1938.
3. 29 August 1939 land Held it, Klipfontein A No. 174
4. 29 August 1939 land Held it, Klipfontein Oost (Klipfontein A No. 174 Ptn 1)
5. 29 August 1939 event Klipfontein A titled and partitioned on one day
   Four pieces assembled over sixty years - 1879, 1896, 1897 and 1902 - were surveyed as one farm in August 1938 and given a Certificate of Amended Title on 29 August 1939 (deed 9311) to the joint estate of the late G.M. Steyl born Alberts and her surviving spouse. The same day, Portion 1, Klipfontein

Ground they are on record on

• Klipfontein A No. 174 held it · 29 August 1939
• Klipfontein Oost (Klipfontein A No. 174 Ptn 1) held it · 29 August 1939

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. Klipfontein A, farm No.174, amended-title diagram (1939)Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 284/1939; S.G. File S.14126; Survey Records E.1450/1938
2. Klipfontein Oost, Portion 1 of Klipfontein A No.174, diagram (1939)Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 285/1939; S.G. File S.14126; Survey Records E.1450/1938

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

• The record stops in 1939 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Klipfontein A No. 174 was worked as far as 1939-08-29, with Bernardus Lambertus SteylH and G.M. SteylM (born Alberts) the last owner on record. 87 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.

• The record stops in 1939 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Klipfontein Oost (Klipfontein A No. 174 Ptn 1) was worked as far as 1939-08-29, with Bernardus Lambertus SteylH the last owner on record. 87 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.

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.