I.W. Ferreira Jr

active 1904

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) (1904-02-08).

Names

Given: I.W.
Surname: Ferreira

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

8 February 1904 land Held it, Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11)

Ground they are on record on

Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) held it · 8 February 1904 to 5 April 1939

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

[DIAGRAM] Named on SG Dgm 3965/1938 (DOC-0157) as the man to whom "Spitskop A, portion of No. 1" was transferred on 8 February 1904 under D/T 1408/1904, in the Traka field cornetcy, division of Willowmore. The ground later became Portion 11 of Karee Rivier No. 143 and passed to A.F. HitgeM in 1939. Initials only; no further identification attempted. [1 Aug 2026]

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

35 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11), I.W. Ferreira JrH is the last owner recorded from 1904-02-08, and the next entry is A.F. HitgeM from 1939-04-05, 35 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0157 records the later arrival but not the 35 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1904 and 1939. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace
I.W. Ferreira JrH appears in exactly one land record and nowhere else, no birth, no death, no parents, no marriage, no burial, no estate. Who was this, and which family are they?

What would settle it A death notice (MOOC 6/9) names parents, spouse and children in one sheet and is the fastest way to attach an isolated landholder. Failing that, the baptism register for the district in the right decade.
The record stops in 1939 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends
Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) was worked as far as 1939-04-05, with I.W. Ferreira JrH the last owner on record. 87 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.