S. K. Gishford (Trooper, d. 1901)
? – 2 February 1901
Connection to the Koup
Buried in this district, at Prince Albert district, Klaarstroom, Church of the Good Shepherd, church yard (1901-02-02).
Names
- Given
- S K
- Surname
- Gishford
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
- 2 February 1901 died Died
-
undated
buried
Buried, Prince Albert district, Klaarstroom, Church of the Good Shepherd, church yard
Not read by this project. The Guild Cross is engraved HIRSCHFORD and dated 4 February 1901; eGGSA records both as incorrect.
Stories
- subject The war reaches the Koup
What we don't know
- No birth 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.
Research notes
[SRC-010, SRC-625] Trooper, 2ND BRABANT'S REGIMENT, killed in the skirmish in DIE GANG on 2 February 1901, the same action in which Lance Corporal Boyd and Johannes KleuM (PER-000518) died. Buried beside Boyd and reinterred with him in the churchyard of the CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD at Klaarstroom (CEM-477). *** HIS GUILD CROSS IS WRONG TWICE OVER, AND eGGSA SAYS SO: the name is engraved HIRSCHFORD and the date is given as 4 FEBRUARY 1901. *** The eGGSA caption follows the stone, which is why this project's harvest carries him as 'HIRSCHFORDS -1901' and why no search on Gishford would have found him. A worked example of 5a: a transcription is a promise about what is on the paper, and what is on the paper can itself be wrong. The house spelling here is GISHFORD, from the cameo; the stone's HIRSCHFORD is kept as the variant.
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.