Christian Hatting Junior (Klein Valie, 1833)

active 1833 · Hatting line · unidentified

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Klein Valie No. 182 (../1833).

• event Wilgamount and Klein Valie surveyed by C. Lennox Stretch1833-08

Names

Given

Christian

Surname

Hatting

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. before 1833 land Held it, Klein Valie No. 182
2. August 1833 event Wilgamount and Klein Valie surveyed by C. Lennox Stretch
   Two more of Stretch's August 1833 loan-farm surveys, both in C. Hatting's Zwarte Berg field cornetcy: Wilgamount for Martinus van Veuren and Klein Valie for Christian Hatting Junior. Both take in a piece of the Government ground called The Ape.

Ground they are on record on

• Klein Valie No. 182 held it · before 1833

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

• The record stops in 1833 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends

  Klein Valie No. 182 was worked as far as ../1833, with Christian Hatting JuniorH (Klein Valie, 1833) the last owner on record. 193 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.

• “Land granted to C. Hatting 15 April 1841” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner

  A boundary description for Venters Kloof Annex No. 183 names Land granted to C. HattingM 15 April 1841, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Hatting tenure elsewhere, but none on this boundary and none at this date.

  What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.

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.