the Widow Du Pre
active August 1833 · unidentified
Names
- Surname
- Du Pre
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.
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.
- Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
Klaare Stroom loan farm, 1833 [floruit] Named on SG diagram 350/1833 (DOC-0189): the loan farm Klaare Stroom with its annexed Government ground, 6498 morgen, 'Surveyed for the Widow Du PreH', C. Lennox Stretch, August 1833. She held the ground EIGHT YEARS BEFORE the 15 April 1841 grant that this project has treated as the farm's beginning. A widow, so a husband held it before her and is not named on the sheet. No forename, no dates: the diagram gives a status and a surname and this row does not invent the rest. [TO VERIFY] against the opgaafrolle and the quitrent register.
[28 Aug 2026] NOT RESOLVED, BUT THE FIELD IS NARROWER. Hermanus Carel du PreezM held Klaare Stroom in 1822 (PER-001911) and died on 14 July 1839, six years AFTER this diagram. So the widow of August 1833 is not his widow, and Catharina Beatrix OlivierM outlived him to 1857 in any case. She is a du Preez widow of another household, or the surname on the sheet is a different family altogether. [TO VERIFY]
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