Susanna Abigaël Breytenbach (Bredenbach)

1791 – ?

Verbinding met die Koup

Het deelgeneem aan iets wat hier aangeteken is: Wijnand van Zijl baptised (1809-12-06).

Name

Given: Susanna Abigaël
Surname: Breytenbach

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.

Naaste familie

Children: Wynand van Zyl, Jacobus Stephanus van Zyl

'n Lewe in die rekord

1791 gebore Born
6 Desember 1809 gebeurtenis Wijnand van Zijl baptised
Born 3 June 1808. Baptised with his younger brother Jacobus on the same day. Witnesses on his mother's side: Weijnand Bredenbach the elder and the younger, with their wives - the source of his name.
6 Desember 1809 gebeurtenis Jacobus van Zijl baptised
Born 20 September 1809, so eleven weeks old. Baptised the same day as his brother Wijnand, who was eighteen months old - which is how a family history came to record them as twins born 6/12/1809. He is the man who married Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen of Middelwater and laid out Brandfort in 1866.

Stories

mentioned Die swaer wat 'n dorp gestig het

Wat ons nie weet 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

Baptism register, 6 December 1809. Wijnand and Jacobus van Zijl, sons of Casper van Zijl and Susanna Abigaël Bredenbach FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"; State Archives, Cape Provinceark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-CS1D-T, cc=1478678, image 1 of 1; register pages 148-149

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-180] Mother of Wijnand and Jacobus van Zijl. Her own family stands as witnesses at the elder son's baptism: Weijnand Bredenbach DE OUDE with his wife Hermiena Catharena van Weijk, and Weijnand Bredenbach DE JONGE with his wife Catarina Olivier - which is where the name Wijnand comes into this family, and it comes down her side, not the van Zyls'. The vernoemingspatroon predicts exactly that for a first son. [FS, 1 Aug 2026] 2CBR-9D4, b.1791. SPELLING: FamilySearch has BREYTENBACH; the 1809 baptism register writes BREDENBACH, twice, and so do the witnesses of her own family ('Weijnand Bredenbach de oude', 'de jonge'). Both recorded; neither normalised away.

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.

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Oop vrae

Is Modderdrift's "Casper van Zyle Senior" the Casper van Zyl of the Beaufort West baptisms? prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0056
Is the Casper van ZylMe Senior for whom Modderdrift No. 106 was surveyed in 1833 the same man as Casper van ZylM (1781-1863), father of the two van Zyl brothers baptised at Beaufort West?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A death notice or estate inventory listing Modderdrift among his property, or a title deed giving his full names. Either settles it in one line.

Elders

FamilySearch-profiel 2CBR-9D4