Isaak van der Westhuizen

active 1833

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Vrisch Gewagt No. 163 (1841-04-15).

Names

Given: Isaak
Surname: van der Westhuizen

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 land Held it, Vrisch Gewagt No. 163

Ground they are on record on

Vrisch Gewagt No. 163 held it · 15 April 1841

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

[15 Aug 2026 inbox, SRC-440/DOC-0299] THE MAN VRISCH GEWAGT No. 163 WAS SURVEYED FOR. C. Lennox Stretch measured 1712 morgen for him in AUGUST 1833, in the Zwarte Berg and the field cornetcy of C. HattingM [PLC-000026], and the ground was titled to him or his successors on Bf.W.Q.5-11 on 15 April 1841 - grant day.

A THIN ROW ON PURPOSE: a name, a date, a farm and a source, which is what 6 asks for a person who enters through the land rather than through the tree. He is not matched to any van der Westhuizen already here and should not be on the name alone - the model holds several, and the surname is common in this district. [TO VERIFY]

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

The record stops in 1841 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Vrisch Gewagt No. 163 was worked as far as 1841-04-15, with Isaak van der WesthuizenH the last owner on record. 185 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.
Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace
Isaak van der WesthuizenH 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.

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.