Event EVT-000218
1820 · national · Cape Colony / South Africa
Four thousand people placed on the eastern frontier. C. Lennox Stretch, who surveys twelve of these farms in 1833, is already in the Colony and will spend his career on the frontier this settlement creates. [Added 1 Aug 2026 as timeline context: general history, no source row, and it is here because it bears on this district rather than because it is famous.]
This is a private family-history research project, not an official record. It changes as new documents arrive, and parts of it are argued rather than proven.
The farm outlines are for illustration and are not a survey. They may not be used to determine a boundary, an extent or any right in land. For that, the approved diagram and the title deed govern.
Living people are withheld. If you are named here, or a relative of yours is, you may ask to have it corrected or removed.