G.M. Steyl (born Alberts)

active voor 1939

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Klipfontein A Nr. 174 (1939-08-29).

gebeurtenis Klipfontein A titled and partitioned on one day1939-08-29

Name

Given: G.M.
Surname: Steyl

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

29 Augustus 1939 grond Held it, Klipfontein A Nr. 174
29 Augustus 1939 gebeurtenis Klipfontein A titled and partitioned on one day
Four pieces assembled over sixty years - 1879, 1896, 1897 and 1902 - were surveyed as one farm in August 1938 and given a Certificate of Amended Title on 29 August 1939 (deed 9311) to the joint estate of the late G.M. Steyl born Alberts and her surviving spouse. The same day, Portion 1, Klipfontein

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Klipfontein A Nr. 174 held it · 29 Augustus 1939

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.

Bronne

Klipfontein Oost, Portion 1 of Klipfontein A No.174, diagram (1939)Surveyor-GeneralSG Dgm 285/1939; S.G. File S.14126; Survey Records E.1450/1938

Navorsingsnotas

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Named on the 1939 amended title (DOC-0113) as 'the late G.M. SteylH, born Alberts', whose joint estate with her surviving spouse Bernardus Lambertus SteylM (PER-000479) held Klipfontein A. INITIALS ONLY and no dates: she was dead by 29 Aug 1939, which is all the document gives. Her maiden name Alberts is recorded because a maiden name is the thread back to her own family. [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.

Wat die rekord kortkom

The record stops in 1939 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends
Klipfontein A Nr. 174 was worked as far as 1939-08-29, with Bernardus Lambertus SteylM and G.M. SteylH (born Alberts) the last owner on record. 87 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.

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.