Jan Müller (bought Klein Vallei, 1897)

No dates recorded

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Klein Valie No. 182 (1897).

event Kouwveldt sold; the family moves to Droogekloof1897

Names

Surname: Müller

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

1897 land Held it, Klein Valie No. 182
1897 event Kouwveldt sold; the family moves to Droogekloof
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen sells Kouwveldt - properly Klein Vallei, PAR-000088 - to Jan Muller and moves his household to his other farm, Droogekloof (PAR-000007). The same year the brandsiekwet came from Rhodes; 'die enigste goeie ding wat hy in Suid-Afrika gedoen het', the diary says, with the distr

Ground they are on record on

Klein Valie No. 182 held it · 1897

Stories

mentioned Brokkies uit oupa Almero Oosthuizen se dagboek

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.

Sources

'Brokkies uit oupa Almero Oosthuizen se dagboek', Klaarstroom - Zeekoegat 1885/1933 - Die Oudtshoorn CourantSame page and issue as SRC-585; date [TO VERIFY], after October 1961Scans DOC-0348 (left), DOC-0349 (page), DOC-0350 (right); published verbatim as story STO-0048

Research notes

Thin record under 6's land rule: bought Kouwveldt/Klein Vallei (PAR-000088) from Ockert Almero OosthuizenL in 1897, per the seller's son's diary (SRC-586). PROBABLY the J.C. MullerM whose son A.P. Muller held Klein Valie by 1919 (PER-000496), and possibly PER-000035 - Jan is a Johannes noemnaam - but a name alone identifies nobody: all three rows stand apart until a deed joins them. [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

19 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow first order · B1 succession
On Klein Valie No. 182, Ockert Almero OosthuizenL is the last owner recorded from ../1878, and the next entry is Jan MüllerH (bought Klein Vallei, 1897) from 1897, 19 years later, with no person in common. No document records the handover at all.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1878 and 1897. 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.