Sydney Cowper
No dates recorded
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Sydney Cowper publishes a sixpenny guide with a map of the claims (1891).
Names
- Given
- Sydney
- Surname
- Cowper
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
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1891
event
Sydney Cowper publishes a sixpenny guide with a map of the claims
Ten pages, "The Prince Albert Goldfields with Map". The map is the only surviving picture of how the field was actually pegged: the large claims of Danie du Plessis's Early Bird Syndicate beside small ones called Watson's Peg, Eyre's Shaft and Saunders's Shaft, and workings at Main Creek and One Spe
Stories
- subject The Prince Albert gold rush
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.
- 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.
Sources
- Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) Karoo Development Foundation38pp cameo
Research notes
[SRC-068] Published a ten-page sixpenny booklet, "The Prince Albert Goldfields with Map", in 1891. His map is the only surviving picture of how the field was actually pegged: the large claims of Danie du Plessis's EARLY BIRD SYNDICATE alongside small ones called Watson's Peg, Eyre's Shaft and Saunders's Shaft, and the workings at Main Creek and One Speck Creek. Named among those who reported on the gold, with Geological Surveyor Andrew Wyley and, later, G.S. Corstorphine and A.W. Rogers.
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.