Lucas van Veuren ("P. Zoon")

active 1833–1841

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof) (1833~).

Names

Given: Lucas
Surname: van Veuren

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

about 1833 land Held it, Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof)

Ground they are on record on

Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof) held it · about 1833 to 1863

Stories

mentioned The van Vuurens of Wilgemond

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] The man Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 was surveyed for. SG Dgm 356/1833 (DOC-0073) reads "Surveyed for Lucas Van Veuren \"P. Zoon.\"", and the farm was titled to him on Bf.W.Q.5-30 on 15 April 1841, one of the batch of titles issued across this district that day. "P. ZOON" IS A PATRONYMIC, not part of the surname: it says he is P.'s son. Petrus van Veuren SeniorM (PER-001380) held Uitnood No. 147 next door, surveyed the same month by the same surveyor, so Petrus is the obvious P. and this reads as father and son. NOT PROVEN, and the two farms are not even adjacent - Haggas sits between them, and both border it. See LEAD-0054. HE HAD NO ROW IN THIS MODEL UNTIL 1 AUG 2026, which is why Oorlogs Kloof was drawn grey on the map: the colouring reads the ownership parties, the farm had no ownership record of any kind, and so the largest single holding in this part of the district had no family attached to it at all.

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

Why did the State take Oorlogs Kloof in 1941? priority 2 · LEAD-0062
What was the Government of the Union of South AfricaM consolidating Oorlogs Kloof No. 175 for in April 1941?

What would settle it The consolidation certificate itself names the purpose, or the Lands file does. Either turns a striking fact into a story.

What the record is missing

39 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof), Lucas van VeurenH ("P. Zoon") is the last owner recorded from 1833~, and the next entry is an unnamed holder from 1872-11-30, 39 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0078 records the later arrival but not the 39 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1833 and 1872. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

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.