Identity area
Type of entity
Governmental body
Authorized form of name
Magistrate, Bredasdorp
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- 1/BRE
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Contact area
Description area
Dates of existence
1838 – 1979
History
On 1 September 1855 the district of Bredasdorp was created and JH Hofmeyr appointed Resident Magistrate for the said district (Government Gazette No 2645 dated 7 September 1855). The magistrate held periodical courts at Napier and acted as gaoler, chief constable, deputy registrar of births and deaths and chairman of the liquor licensing court.
The Magistrate’s Office at Bredasdorp and all the records which were housed there at the time were destroyed by fire in December 1941 (File No K9/6/B8: Letter dated 14 October 1960 addressed to the Senior Archivist, Cape Town by the Magistrate, Bredasdorp). This presumably accounts for the gaps between 1902 – 1941 in the various series of archives.
Places
Western Cape Province.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Bredasdorp.
Cape Province.
Cape Colony.
Bredasdorp.
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
1/BRE
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
7 April 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette.
Guide to Arranged Archives in the Cape Archives Depot, vol II.
Guide to Arranged Archives in the Cape Archives Depot, vol II.