P. van der Westhuizen (Haggas, 1833)

active 1833 · van der Westhuizen line · unidentified

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Haggas No. 145 (../1833).

event Haggas granted on quitrent Bf.W.Q. 5-311841-04-15

Names

Given: P.
Surname: van der Westhuizen

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 1833 land Held it, Haggas No. 145
15 April 1841 event Haggas granted on quitrent Bf.W.Q. 5-31
17,060 morgen in the Traka field cornetcy, on ground that is today in the Willowmore division of the Eastern Cape but adjoins Oorlogs Kloof - the largest grant of that day now in this model, and one folio above Oorlogs Kloof's 5-30.

Ground they are on record on

Haggas No. 145 held it · before 1833

Stories

mentioned The men who drew the lines

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] The loan farm Hagga's, 17,060 morgen, was surveyed for him in August 1833 (DOC-0131). INITIALS ONLY, not matched. Van der Westhuizen recurs in this model - PER-000058, and the stepfather and baptism witness in the 1895/1899 Botes records - but nothing connects them and nothing is claimed.

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
Haggas No. 145 was worked as far as ../1833, with P. van der WesthuizenH (Haggas, 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.

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.