Christiaan Hendrik Van Zyl

1863 – 1937

Verbinding met die Koup

Het grond in hierdie distrik gehou: Zoutwater (Klipgat Nr. 114 Gdlt 1) (1916-11-15).

Name

Given: Christiaan Hendrik
Surname: van Zyl

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

Father: Louis Daniel Francois van Zyl
Brothers and sisters: Jacobus Johannes Petrus van Zyl

'n Lewe in die rekord

1863 gebore Born
15 November 1916 grond Held it, Zoutwater (Klipgat Nr. 114 Gdlt 1)
1937 begrawe Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
1937 oorlede Died

Grond waarop hulle op rekord is

Zoutwater (Klipgat Nr. 114 Gdlt 1) held it · 15 November 1916

Navorsingsnotas

[FS, 5 Aug 2026] Son of Louis Daniel Francois van ZylM (PER-001385), who held Klipgat No. 114 to his death. Took ZOUTWATER, Portion 1 of Klipgat No. 114, on deed 8820 of 15 November 1916 - one of ten near-equal shares transferred out of his father's estate on consecutive deeds that day. The deed as transcribed gives the initials only, 'Christian H. van Zyl'; the full name and dates come from FamilySearch GBZL-B3R. He married ELSJE CATHARINA MAGDALENA STORM (LHZQ-VRT, 1868-1945) at PRINS ALBERT on 25 April 1887 and they had thirteen children - a Prince Albert marriage that places the family in this district independently of the deeds. [TO VERIFY - deed 8820 would give the name in full]

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 1916 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Zoutwater (Klipgat Nr. 114 Gdlt 1) was worked as far as 1916-11-15, with Christiaan Hendrik Van ZylH the last owner on record. 110 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.

Elders

FamilySearch-profiel GBZL-B3R