M. de Beer (veldkornet)
active 1833–1834 · de Beer line
Verbinding met die Koup
Het deelgeneem aan iets wat hier aangeteken is: Vlakfontein surveyed by C.L. Stretch (1833-07).
Name
- Baptismal name
- M.
- Given
- M.
- Surname
- de Beer
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.
'n Lewe in die rekord
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Julie 1833
gebeurtenis
Vlakfontein surveyed by C.L. Stretch
On 24 July 1833 Pieter Johannes Swanepoel signed before field cornet M. de Beer that he was "volkomen te vreeden" with the way surveyor Stretch had measured Vlakfontein and that the beacons had been properly shown to him. General plan No 21, No 9 Vlakfontein. The same surveyor and the same field cor
- 24 Julie 1833 getuie Was getuie by 'n survey · Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7)
Wie by hulle gestaan het
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for
Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7) survey · 24 Julie 1833
on Vlakfontein (Koup), Rietkuil Nr. 119 (Kouka)
Stories
- subject Die vyftiende April 1841
- mentioned Die manne wat die lyne getrek het
Wat ons nie weet nie
- Geen geboortedatum is aangeteken nie.
- Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
- Nie een ouer is aangeteken nie, dus hang hierdie mens nie aan die boom bo hom of haar nie.
- Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Bronne
- 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526
Navorsingsnotas
[SRC-072 + DOC-0004] Field cornet of the Koup. Witnessed Pieter Johannes SwanepoelL's acceptance of the Vlakfontein survey on 24 Jul 1833, and the 1834 Varsche Fontein diagram places that farm in "the Field Cornetcy of Mr De Beer". The same official on both documents - independent confirmation that the two surveys belong to one campaign.
29 Jul 2026: strong candidate identification - Matthys Andries de BeerM (PER-000274), b. May 1799, d. 25 Sep 1876, father of the man who married an Oosthuizen daughter in 1851 [TO VERIFY].
[4 Aug 2026, SRC-254 + SRC-257] TWO MORE DOCUMENTS PUT HIM OVER THIS GROUND, and they are dated 1839 rather than 1833-34. Both Riet Fontein No. 12 and Waterfall (later Bokfontein No. 94) are surveyed by C.L. Stretch in 1839 "in the GOUPH District of Beaufort and FIELD CORNETCY OF M. DE BEER". So the de Beer field cornetcy spans at least 1833 to 1839 and covers the Gouph, and four separate diagrams now name it. That strengthens the identification with Matthys Andries de BeerM (PER-000274) without proving it. [TO VERIFY]
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.
Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.