Catharina Bastijaans Pyl

before 1692-11-16 – 1742

Names

Given: Pyl
Surname: Pyl

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.

Immediate family

Mother: Cornelia Cornelisse Claasz
Married: Ockert Brits 11 November 1731
Children: Martha Elisabeth Botha, Dina Carolina Britz

A life in the record

before 1692-11-16 born Born
11 November 1731 married Married Ockert Brits
1742 died Died

What we don't know

No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

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

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.

Open questions

The manumission of Catharina van Malabar - the record that decides what Cornelia was born into priority 1 · LEAD-0117
When exactly was Catharina van MalabarM freed, and is there a manumission act? Her daughter Cornelia was baptised 18 November 1674 and she married a vrijburger on 15 March 1676. If the manumission falls between those dates, Cornelia was born owned.

What would settle it The manumission act, or a resolution naming her. Failing that, any record of her status between November 1674 and March 1676.

Elders

FamilySearch profile LD92-GK7