T.G. Hugo (Vrolykheid, Tulbagh, 1816)

active 1816 · Hugo line · unidentified

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Vrolykheid No. 61, Tulbagh, surveyed for erfpacht (1816-01-25).

Names

Given: T.G.
Surname: Hugo

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

before 1816 land Held it, Vrolykheid No. 61 (Tulbagh)
25 January 1816 event Vrolykheid No. 61, Tulbagh, surveyed for erfpacht
J. Tulleken measures T.G. Hugo's loan-place at 465 morgen 12 square roods on the order of the Commissie van Inspectie, in D.T. Theron G.S.'s veldkornetskap. The sheet names five families around it - Theron, Winterbach, de Bruin, Grobbelaar - and gives the Karoo's own Vrolykheid a namesake 400 km wes
25 June 1818 event Vrolykheid No. 61 titled, Tul.Q.1-23
Erfpacht title issued two and a half years after the survey.

Ground they are on record on

Vrolykheid No. 61 (Tulbagh) held it · before 1816

Stories

mentioned Two farms called Vrolykheid

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

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Named on SG dgm 388/1816 (DOC-0074), Vrolykheid No. 61, Tulbagh. The holder: the figure ABCDE is 'de in Erfpacht verzochte Leeningsplaats van T. G. Hugo'. INITIALS ONLY - deliberately NOT matched to anyone in the tree. The tree holds 116 Hugos, 7 of them Tulbagh-placed, incl. Jacobus Hugo b. 14 May 1765 Tulbagh (age 51 in 1816) and Christina Jacoba Hugo b. 10 Feb 1804 Tulbagh. None tested.

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 1816 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Vrolykheid No. 61 (Tulbagh) was worked as far as ../1816, with T.G. HugoH (Vrolykheid, Tulbagh, 1816) the last owner on record. 210 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.