Bower (land surveyor, 1825)
active 1825 · unidentified
Verbinding met die Koup
Het deelgeneem aan iets wat hier aangeteken is: Bloemendaal surveyed by the landsurveyor Bower (1825-05-07).
Name
- Surname
- Bower
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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7 Mei 1825
gebeurtenis
Bloemendaal surveyed by the landsurveyor Bower
The oldest survey in this model, eight years before Stretch's season and four years after the Oosthuizens are reckoned to have established at Middelwater. Titled twenty years later, 31 January 1845.
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.
Navorsingsnotas
[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Framed the original Bloemendaal diagram on 7 MAY 1825 (DOC-0129), which makes him the earliest surveyor in this model - eight years before C. Lennox Stretch's 1833 season. Only a surname survives on the redraw.
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.