Daniel William John Coghill

13 November 1872 – 15 Februarie 1900

Verbinding met die Koup

Het deelgeneem aan iets wat hier aangeteken is: Daniel Coghill is killed by lightning on Lemoenrietfontein (1900-02-15).

Name

Given: Daniel William John
Surname: Coghill

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

13 November 1872 gebore Born
15 Februarie 1900 gebeurtenis Daniel Coghill is killed by lightning on Lemoenrietfontein
A twenty-seven-year-old British soldier from Beaufort West, buried where he fell, on a portion of Rietfontein. "Not gone from memory love / but gone to his father to rest above." The date is the headstone's; SRC-068's prose says 1901 in the same paragraph. See LEAD-0043.
15 Februarie 1900 oorlede Died

Wat ons nie weet 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

Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) Karoo Development Foundation38pp cameo

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-068] British soldier, killed by lightning on LEMOENRIETFONTEIN, a portion of Rietfontein in the Zeekoegat district, and buried there under a marble headstone: "Not gone from memory love / but gone to his father to rest above." Born at Beaufort West, youngest child of Daniel Coghill (b. Scotland 20 Sep 1842, d. 1874) and Aletta Catharina de Bruto, daughter of Joao Soares de Bruto of Portugal, who was born at Victoria West on 12 Sep 1849, remarried Sebastian Frederick Fischer in 1877, had seven more children, and died at Prince Albert on 16 Sep 1908. DATE CONFLICT INSIDE THE SOURCE: the prose says 1901; the headstone it quotes in the same paragraph reads 15 February 1900. THE HEADSTONE IS TAKEN AS THE AUTHORITY, it is the primary object and the prose is a summary of it. See LEAD-0043.

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

When was Daniel Coghill killed on Lemoenrietfontein? prioriteit 3 · LEAD-0043
SRC-068 says 1901 in its prose and quotes a headstone reading 15 February 1900, in the same paragraph. Which is right, and was he a serving soldier at the time?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A photograph of the headstone, or a death notice.