Hendrik Johannes van Eck (grantee, Doorn Kraal 1841)

active 1841

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Doorn Kraal Lot B granted on quitrent to Hendrik Johannes van Eck (1841-04-15).

Names

Given: Hendrik Johannes
Surname: van Eck

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

15 April 1841 event Doorn Kraal Lot B granted on quitrent to Hendrik Johannes van Eck
Surveyor-General diagram 2103/1903 recites the title: 2760 morgen, Lot B, part of the farm Doorn Kraal or Toornits Kraal in the field cornetcy of Traka, division of Beaufort, now Prince Albert, granted on quitrent to Hendrik Joh van Eck (Joh son) on the 15th April 1841. IT IS THE SAME DAY as the fiv

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

SG diagram 2103/1903, Doorn Kraal No. 116 Portion 3 (Lot B)Surveyor-General, Cape Town. Copy stamped 26 August 1949 by W.G. Hardwick.Diagram No. 2103/1903; copied from the diagram to Transfer Deed No. 1592 dated 11 March 1913

Research notes

[7 Aug 2026, from the inbox: SG diagrams for Doorn Kraal No. 116] GRANTEE OF DOORN KRAAL LOT B ON QUITRENT, 15 APRIL 1841 - the recital on SG diagram 2103/1903 reads 'Granted on Quitrent to Hendrik Joh van Eck (Joh son) on the 15th April 1841'. The parenthetical is the diagram distinguishing him from another Hendrik van Eck by naming his father Johannes, which is the same job the patronymic does in the registers. He is here under the people-related-to-the-land rule: a grantee named in the farm papers. NOT MATCHED to any van Eck already in this model - there are six, and matching on a surname and a date would be exactly what 9 forbids. [DIAGRAM]

[7 Aug 2026] FLOURUIT 1841, set from the document rather than guessed: the diagram's own recital has him taking a quitrent grant on 15 April 1841, so he was an adult that year. 4 route 3 - an explicit floruit before 1936 - and it is exactly the case the column exists for.

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