Thx Private for explanation, I saw it, who knows maybe he had some a woman (girlfriend) but not mentioned. In some cases lots of them had a girlfriends (wifes) but there were not married and had ilegimitate childrens, how I said cannot be comfirmed for him and his case, but I believe a exists (existed before at this period) lots of other same or similar cases (in every part, countries, places of World).
In that cases, mostly males didn't accept a childrens as their biological (although they was biological fathers), whatever reason was been or how they were maybe and why decide.
So childrens in that cases had only a mother birth surname. How I'm not deeply informed, and do not have a complete view of relations between citizens insight of Africa trought before a time periods (like a this), I can't tell more, only I can think, on logical way and to assume some facts what can be maybe a true or not. But a archival documents shows to us some facts (written facts), but not a facts from a real life in that time.
E.g. In this case of his record of death written only date of death, but not a date of his birth, in some records of death you have a both, or based on the year what a person had in time when was died you can cca (estimated) when the person was born ,but in lots of cases is not a exact, it is most usually near years when a person exact was born in birthplace; also a birthplace: written state Austria, not mentioned a town with Austria., etc.. (Yes I know a Croatia and other places in Europe was part of Austria-Hungary Empire).
