G.M. Steyl (born Alberts)

active before 1939

Connection to the Koup

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

event Klipfontein A titled and partitioned on one day1939-08-29

Names

Given: G.M.
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

29 August 1939 land Held it, Klipfontein A No. 174
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

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

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

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Named on the 1939 amended title (DOC-0113) as 'the late G.M. SteylH, born Alberts', whose joint estate with her surviving spouse Bernardus Lambertus SteylM (PER-000479) held Klipfontein A. INITIALS ONLY and no dates: she was dead by 29 Aug 1939, which is all the document gives. Her maiden name Alberts is recorded because a maiden name is the thread back to her own family. [TO VERIFY]

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 SteylM and G.M. SteylH (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.

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.