I.W. Ferreira Jr

active 1904

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Spitskop (Karee Rivier Nr. 143 Gdlt 11) (1904-02-08).

Name

Given: I.W.
Surname: Ferreira

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

8 Februarie 1904 grond Held it, Spitskop (Karee Rivier Nr. 143 Gdlt 11)

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Spitskop (Karee Rivier Nr. 143 Gdlt 11) held it · 8 Februarie 1904 to 5 April 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.

Navorsingsnotas

[DIAGRAM] Named on SG Dgm 3965/1938 (DOC-0157) as the man to whom "Spitskop A, portion of No. 1" was transferred on 8 February 1904 under D/T 1408/1904, in the Traka field cornetcy, division of Willowmore. The ground later became Portion 11 of Karee Rivier No. 143 and passed to A.F. HitgeM in 1939. Initials only; no further identification attempted. [1 Aug 2026]

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

35 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Spitskop (Karee Rivier Nr. 143 Gdlt 11), I.W. Ferreira JrH is the last owner recorded from 1904-02-08, and the next entry is A.F. HitgeM from 1939-04-05, 35 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0157 records the later arrival but not the 35 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1904 and 1939. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
Holds ground once, and leaves no other trace at all second order · B5 one-trace
I.W. Ferreira JrH 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.
The record stops in 1939 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends
Spitskop (Karee Rivier Nr. 143 Gdlt 11) was worked as far as 1939-04-05, with I.W. Ferreira JrH 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.