Target card - Swellendam opgaafrol J 322, 1808 (the citation for film 008145384)
archival target card · an original record · consulted 2026-08-19
- Type
- archival target card
- Repository
- FamilySearch, "Opgaafrollen, 1692-1844"; Cape Archives J-series census returns. SWELLENDAM, CAPE PROVINCE - volume J 322 - year 1808.
- Reference
- Film # 008145384, image 318 of 519. The NEW BEGINS card; an END card faces it at image 317.
- Consulted
- 2026-08-19
The citation as it was given
*** THE CITATION THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 4 AUGUST. *** | TRANSCRIBED AS PRINTED, block capitals throughout: | LOCALITY OF RECORD: SWELLENDAM / CAPE PROVINCE | TITLE OF RECORD: OPGAAFROLLEN / CENSUS - TAX | VOLUME/S: J 322 | YEAR/S INCLUDED: 1808 | (a partial column at the left edge carries ...ION X 21, ...R. NO. ...885 and ...MBER 65 - filming administration, not part of the record's identity). | IT IS J 322, WHICH IS THE VOLUME THIS PROJECT'S OWN LEADS HAD ALREADY NAMED. LEAD-0220 and LEAD-0223 recorded 'muster roll J322 (1808)' as the route to follow on 17 Aug 2026, from the index of Cape Muster Rolls at SRC-481, before any page of this film had been seen. The document that arrived is the document the leads pointed at. | AND IT AGREES WITH THE SIGNATURE, BY A ROUTE THAT SHARES NOTHING WITH IT. MOOC8/28.63 closes 'Ten mynen overstaan: A:A: Faure'; Anthony Alexander Faure was landdrost of SWELLENDAM 1798-1810 and a landdrost's authority was territorial. The 1802 estate closes 'Mij present: A: Stockenstrom, Secret:s', and Stockenstrom was secretary to Landdrost Faure of Swellendam from March 1796. A twentieth-century filming clerk's card and two eighteenth-century officials' signatures put the same district on the same family. | WHAT THE DATE MEANS. OCKERT JACOBUS OOSTHUIZEN (PER-000118) DIED AT DE MODDER FONTEYN IN APRIL 1809. This roll is of 1808 and it carries a FARMS COLUMN. It is the year before his death, in his own district, on a document that names each householder, his wife, and his ground. | SCOPE OF THE CITATION: it governs film 008145384 and the rows read off it - SRC-482, SRC-484, SRC-485. It does NOT govern SRC-260 and SRC-261, which are film 008145126 (volumes J110-J118, 1792-1800) and whose district remains unread. Do not let one card settle two films.
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.