Jacob A. Niehaus

active 1909 · Niehaus line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Lot C (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 5) (1909-08-07).

Name

Baptismal name: Jacob A.
Given: Jacob A.
Surname: Niehaus

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

7 Augustus 1909 grond Held it, Lot C (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 5)

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Lot C (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 5) held it · 7 Augustus 1909

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.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-111] Bought "Lot C Spreeuwfontein" (Portion 5 of Spreeufontein, PAR-000024), 4 morgen 480 sq roods, deed 5220 dated 7 Aug 1909. Not otherwise identified.

[7 Aug 2026] THE SURNAME IS NOT A STRANGER TO THIS FAMILY, WHICH IS NOT THE SAME AS IDENTIFYING HIM. A NIEHAUS family married into Frans's own Zulch line: Magdalena Frederica Zulch (1823), sister of his direct ancestor Isabella Johanna Jacoba ZulchM (PER-000756), married BERNHARDUS GYSBERTUS JOHANNES GERRIT NIEHAUS (1821-1876) - so the Niehaus are AFFINAL to this family, one step off the ancestral line, exactly as the Swanepoels are. Their mother was NEELTJE JOHANNA STORM, married at Paarl 7 August 1813. 'Jacob A.' matches no Niehaus given-name pattern seen in that family, whose sons are Bernhardus, Petrus Jacobus Mohr, Willem Nicholas Hendrik, Hendrik Willem StormM and Paulus Eduard Johannes. He stays UNIDENTIFIED [TO VERIFY]. Buying four morgen of Spreeufontein in 1909 puts him on this ground, which is why he is here. LEAD-0124.

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.

Oop vrae

Two Storms on Varsche Fontein, 1848 and 1849 - who were they, and what put them there? prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0124
Who is the B. STORM buried on Varsche Fontein in 1848 (GRV-0030), and does the grave connect to either of the two Storm lines this family already touches?

Wat dit sou uitmaak THE LIQUIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT OF MAGDALENA STORM BORN BOTES, died Prince Albert 10 April 1884. Her death notice says she left IMMOVEABLE PROPERTY to be 'all sold immediately and the account filed'. That account names the land. It is now the single most direct route to whether the Storms held ground on or near Varsche Fontein. Failing that, the estate papers of her husband, died Prince Albert 19 August 1855.

Wat die rekord kortkom

The record stops in 1909 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Lot C (Spreeufontein Nr. 26 Gdlt 5) was worked as far as 1909-08-07, with Jacob A. NiehausH the last owner on record. 117 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.
Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace
Jacob A. NiehausH appears in exactly one land record and nowhere else, no birth, no death, no parents, no marriage, no burial, no estate. Who was this, and which family are they?

What would settle it A death notice (MOOC 6/9) names parents, spouse and children in one sheet and is the fastest way to attach an isolated landholder. Failing that, the baptism register for the district in the right decade.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.