Death notice of Charles Frederik Hitge, d. 29 July 1846 at Vrolykheid, Zwartberg
death notice · consulted 2026-07-30
This citation is incomplete. Supplied as a screenshot. The ark and film/image numbers were never captured, so the original cannot be ordered from this entry alone. Recorded as a gap rather than tidied up: a citation that cannot be followed is a research question, not a formatting one.
- Type
- death notice
- Repository
- Master of the High Court death notice, Cape - same series as SRC-077 (FamilySearch, "Cape, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990")
- Reference
- Death notice no. 8586, filed 3-4 Sep 1846
- Consulted
- 2026-07-30
The citation as it was given
Supplied by as two screenshots, one per side of the printed form. [TO VERIFY] SCREENSHOTS ARE NOT THE DOCUMENT: the ark and film/image numbers were not captured and the full-resolution images should be pulled from FamilySearch and the citation completed here. Ordering the original: KAB (Western Cape Archives), MOOC series. READ VERBATIM, front: "DEATH NOTICE. Pursuant to the Provisions contained in Section 9, Ordinance 104." | no. 8586 | annotated both "Filed 4th September 1846" and "Filed 3 Sept. 1846" | Name of the Deceased: "Charles Frederik Hitge" | Birth-place: "In England" | Names of the Parents: "Nicolaus Hitge and Mary Hunt" | Age: "27 years 11 months & 29 days" | Condition in life: "Farmer" | Married: "Married to Sophia Johanna Mocke" | Day of the decease: "29th July 1846". Reverse: At what House, or where the Person died: "VROLYKHEID ZWARTEBERG" | Names of the Children: "An infant, not yet baptized." | Property: "Moveable" | signed "G. J. R. Hitge" (George Joseph Roy Hitge, the deceased's brother, PER-000283).
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.
What rests on this source
Documents
- Death notice, deed no. 8586, 3 September 1846 death-notice-8586-1846-charles-frederik-hitge.jpg