Wed. William Petrus Burger

active 1823

Names

Surname: Burger

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 May 1823 land Held it, Tygerhoek No. 689

Ground they are on record on

Tygerhoek No. 689 held it · 15 May 1823

Stories

mentioned The van der Merwes of the Hantam

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

[10 Aug 2026, SRC-359] HELD TYGERHOEK IN ERFPACHT IN 1823. The diagram names her only as 'de Wed. William Pets. Burger', the widow of William Petrus Burger, and gives her no name of her own. That is recorded as the record has it rather than tidied away, per 5a; the gap is the document's and not this project's. Added under the 6 amendment for people related to the land. NOT CONNECTED TO THE BURGERS ALREADY HELD HERE, of whom this model has seven in the van der Merwe and van Rensburg ancestry, including Hester Johanna BurgerM (PER-001638, 1792-1852) whose grandson was christened Schalk Willem BURGER van der Merwe. A link is worth testing and is not assumed. [TO VERIFY] LEAD-0149.

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What the record is missing

The record stops in 1823 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Tygerhoek No. 689 was worked as far as 1823-05-15, with Wed. William Petrus BurgerH the last owner on record. 203 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.