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Person PER-000627

Jan Adriaan Van Zyl

29 April 1839 – 22 March 1895

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater (1839).

Names

Given
Johannes Adriaan
Surname
Van Zyl

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Three generations around this person

Casper van Zyl (1781-1863) 1781 Susanna Abigaël Breytenbach (Bredenbach) 1791
Wynand van Zyl 1808
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen 1786 Adriana Cecilia Venter 1792
Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen 1808
Jan Adriaan Van Zyl 1839

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Immediate family

Father
Wynand van Zyl
Mother
Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 1839 event Jan Adriaan van Zijl born at Middelwater
    His own death notice gives his birthplace as 'MIDDELWATER, C.C.' - so Wynand van Zyl and Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen were ON HER FATHER'S FARM when this son was born, four years after their marriage. It is the first documentary placing of a van Zyl household on Middelwater itself. DATE: the model ca
  2. 29 April 1839 born Born
  3. 22 March 1895 event Jan Adriaan van Zijl dies at Klaarstroom in the Marico, the name completes its journey
    A farmer, married, estate over 25 pounds, will known. Three children of age - C.J., S.J. and W.J. van Zyl - and four minors: Johanna Jacomina (16 Feb 1876), Jacobus Fredrik (6 Sep 1882), Adriana Su[si]lia (24 Apr 1886) and Ester Marea (24 Aug 1893). Reported by D.L. Botha, assistant veldkornet of th
  4. 22 March 1895 died Died

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What we don't know

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Sources

  1. Sterfkennis of Jan Adriaan van Zijl, d. 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R.Z.A.R. Weeskamer (Orphan Chamber) death notice, on the printed form 'Overeenkomstig de Wet op de Weeskamer, 10 November 1869'. Supplied byDeath notice of JAN ADRIAAN VAN ZIJL, died 22 March 1895 at Klaarstroom, district Marico, Z.A.R., aged 55 years 4 months 12 days, on the printed Weeskamer form of 10 November 1869. THE FILE NUMBER HAS NOT BEEN SEEN and is not invented here: the document was supplied as an image without its cover. Z.A.R. Weeskamer estate files are held by the National Archives in Pretoria (TAB) in the MHG series, and this notice should be orderable on the name, the date and the district. [TO VERIFY]

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Johanna Jacomina OosthuizenM. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[1 Aug 2026, SRC-183 - his own death notice] *** BORN AT MIDDELWATER, DIED AT KLAARSTROOM IN THE MARICO. *** His death notice gives his birthplace as 'MIDDELWATER, C.C.' and his place of death as 'te Klaarstroom, Dist. Marico, Z.A.R.' - the Karoo farm his mother grew up on, and the Transvaal farm her cousin named for it in 1848. Landbouwer, married, will known, estate over 25 pounds. Seven children: three of age (C.J. S.J. W.J. van Zyl) and four minors, the youngest born 1893. Reported by D.L. Botha, assistant veldkornet of Wijk Klein Marico. AGE CONFLICT NOT RESOLVED: '55 jaar 4 maanden en 12 dagen' on 22 March 1895 implies a birth about 10 November 1839; this row carries 29 April 1839. Both 1839.

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