Pieter Ernst Kruger
8 December 1787 – ? · Kruger line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Pieter Ernst
- Given
- Pieter Ernst
- Surname
- Kruger
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
- 8 December 1787 born Born
What we don't know
- 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.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
DEPUTY FIELD CORNET FOR THE KOUP from 1818 [SRC-694]. Mossop prints a confidential report of 8 December 1827, on a list of Field Cornets and Officers under Landdrost Harding of Beaufort, crediting him with nine years and one month of very good service and noting that he did not speak English. Son of Diederik Kruger; married Anna Catharina van Eck, who died before 9 July 1846. HE IS HERE BECAUSE HE ADMINISTERED THIS GROUND, not because of kinship - 6 admits people related to the land. He fills a decade the model had empty between Samuel de BeerM, field cornet about 1813, and Matthys Andries de BeerM in 1833-34. [TO VERIFY] no record of him has been read here beyond Mossop.
[27 Sep 2026] THERE IS A SECOND PIETER ERNST KRUGER AND THEY MUST NOT BE MERGED. SRC-695 carries a Pieter Ernst KrugerH born 13 February 1827 at Beaufort-Wes, christened there 3 September 1827, who married Zacharia Jacomina Snyders at PRINS ALBERT on 26 December 1867. This row is the man Mossop makes Deputy Field Cornet for the Koup in 1818, born 8 December 1787 - forty years earlier. 9: never match a person by name alone. The younger man is the more interesting one for this district, because he marries a Snyders at Prince Albert while an older Snyders was holding de Drift in Koup - LEAD-0376.
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.
Open questions
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Krugers and Snyderses of the Koup: christened at Beaufort West, married at Prince Albert
priority 2 · LEAD-0376
Are the Krugers and Snyderses that Mossop puts on Koup ground in 1807-1827 the same family that christens at Beaufort West and marries at Prince Albert through the 1820s to 1860s?
What would settle it A baptism or marriage entry naming parents, which would tie the two surnames into one recorded descent on this ground.