Keerom as rekwesplaas toegeken - omtrent 6 000 morg

1839–1843 · family · Prince Albert

After Retief's murder he and others turned back, and got as far as the place later called KEEROM. He meant to rest there before trekking on, liked it, and asked the NATALSE VOLKSRAAD to grant it to him. About 6,000 MORGEN was granted as a rekwesplaas under the occupation law of the day. NOTE WHAT THAT DATES: a Natalia grant means before the British annexation of 1843, so he was settled on Keerom more than twenty years before he laid a town out on it. [FAMILY]

Wie hier op rekord is

• 1809 Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl

Almal wat die rekord by hierdie geleentheid noem. Wie saam gestaan het, is die duidelikste oorlewende bewys van watter families na aan watter was; as jy van ander weet wat hier was, is dit die bladsy waarop hulle hoort.

Bronne

• Handwritten van Zyl family history, page 2. Jacobus van Zyl (1809–1906), Bloedrivier, Keerom and Brandfort FamilySearch person LCV6-XNT, attached document, page 2

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• subject Die swaer wat 'n dorp gestig het