Rondabel

124 on the cadastre · on record 1818–2020 · show on the map

Farm number

No. 124

Also recorded as

Rondabelthe original, and the name every document before the twentieth century usesRondawelSRC-436, the modern spelling, which the cadastre and the deeds office now use for Portion 1

On the cadastre

124, whole farmregistered as RONDABLE

District

Prince Albert

Modern surveyed area

13882.9 ha

Why this farm is here

Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen had an estate taken here. 15 km from Klaarstroom.

Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen is on record on this ground directly. No trace needed.

• story A written history is set on this ground On 15 April 1841 loan ground becomes property
• story A written history is set on this ground Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
• story A written history names this ground Middelwater's story since 1777
• story A written history names this ground Vrolykheid's story
• …and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

Stories

• about this farm On 15 April 1841 loan ground becomes property
  One surveyor works the Koup for two seasons. Seven years later, on a single day, the Crown converts the loan farms to perpetual quitrent: twenty-one deeds on twenty parcels, and the map of the district is set for a century.
• about this farm Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
  From a loan-farm widow who signed with a mark to the Marincowitz farm of today: the full documented history of Rondabel No. 124 - the Venter household of 1829, the twelve-farm grant day of 1841, the Oosthuizen-Theron partnership of 1868, the 1910-34 subdivisions, and the two graves by the huis nobody has read.
• mentions this farm Middelwater's story since 1777
  From a loan farm on the Zwartberg to eight cadastral parcels: the full documented history of Middelwater No. 169 - Stretch's 1833 survey for Okert Oosthuizen, the twelve-farm grant day of 1841, the 1883 resurvey and the 1884 quitrent to J.D.J. Oosthuysen 'and another', the portions cut off for a spring called Vaste Water and a place called Avondrust, and the 1990 power-line survey whose coordinates finally put the farm on a map.
• mentions this farm Vrolykheid's story
  The farm where the paper and the people disagree: Stretch's 1833 survey already carrying the names of portions not cut for another century, two titles granted on one day in 1841 - one to an Oosthuisen and one to an 'N. Hitge' whose deed four later portions cite instead - a Trieste immigrant who married a Hitge in 1844 and died holding the farm in 1890, and the death notice that finally put the Hitges on the ground.
• set here Two Vrolykheid farms, far apart?
  Two farms of one name, 400 km apart. The 1816 Tulbagh diagram names four neighbours; two of the surnames turn up in the Koup and only ONE survives being looked at. Jan de Bruin, whose 1823 estate held a farm the inventories call Rondabel, was baptised at Tulbagh in 1769, but the Theron who took Rondabel in 1868 was a Roggeveld man, and that thread is a coincidence of surname reported as one.
• about this farm Minerals under our ground
  Four times people have come to this country certain there was something valuable under it: gold in 1871 and 1891, oil in the middle 1960s, uranium from 1969 to 1985, and shale gas from 2011. A drill bit still lies on Rondabel. The boreholes SOEKOR drilled for oil are the same cores that deflated the shale gas estimate fifty years later.
• mentions this farm Almero, and how it became an Oosthuizen name, 1786
  A Venetian teenager in the service of the Dutch East India Company stands godfather at a Cape baptism in 1786. Six generations of Karoo farmers carry his name, and nobody remembers why.
• mentions this farm The ground cut, and then stitched back together
  This project holds 124 boundary acts: 96 subdivisions and 20 consolidations. Sorted by date they tell one story with a turning point. The district cut ground for a hundred and fifty years; from 1970 it has only stitched.
• mentions this farm The words from the sources, 1753-1971
  A glossary of the words these documents actually use — leeningsplaats, opstal, erfpacht, kwitrent, morgen and square roods, veldkornetskap, Weeskamer, vendue, d'oude — each illustrated by a verbatim line from the family's own papers.
• mentions this farm Four grandparents, four countries, from 1684
  How four grandparents out of four lines met: three weddings in four years at Bellville and Williston, and a fourth marriage that tied two of them back together after both were widowed. Each line has its own page; this one is the join. Of the four countries the title promises, this record can point at one on a map.
• mentions this farm The Oosthuizens of the Koup
  Eight generations east, from a VOC soldier off the Land van Schouwen in 1685 to a farmer baptised at Prince Albert in 1909. An 1809 estate inventory shows a forge on the Olifants River and explains in one line why the family left: the farm was sold to the eldest son for 1 000 rixdollars, and the rest had to find ground elsewhere. After 1836 they stop moving, and title and a congregation arrive in the same two years.
• mentions this farm The Jouberts and Duminys of the winelands
  The one line that never lived in the Karoo, and reached it three times anyway - in 1904, 1945 and 1946, every time through a woman. It also holds the only one of the four origins this record can put on a map: a foundling born at Lorient in Brittany in 1747, who became a Dutch East India Company sea captain, harbour master at Simonstown, and a slaver.
• set here Two weddings, five months apart
  In October 1807 an Oosthuizen son married a Venter at Swellendam; five months later his brother married a Strydom at Uitenhage, 242 km the other way. Neither was a single marriage - seven of eleven children of one household married into just two families, and married brothers and sisters in both. It is also why Rondabel changed hands three times inside one family network.

What this farm became

From 1872-07-17 this ground stopped being one farm, and the story continues on the pieces cut from it. Its own record above ends there; what happened afterwards belongs to a portion, not to the whole.

• 1872-07-17 Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
• 1910 Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)
• 1919 Hartebeest Voedpad (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 5)
• 1921 Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 6)
• 1933 Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7)
• undated Visgat (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 2)
• undated Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4)
• undated Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 8
• undated Rondabel No. 124 Remainder

Still filed here, and probably should not be. These rows are dated after this ground stopped being one farm, so under the rule above they belong on a portion. They are shown rather than hidden, because a misfiled row is only fixable once somebody can see it.

1. 1901 residence Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1875-09-09–1952-10-08)
2. 1936 residence Frederik Simon Oosthuizen (1856-05-29–1936-10-10)
3. 1999 residence Roy Don Oosthuizen (1923-12-09–1999-09-20)
4. 2003 residence Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1919-02-17–2003-07-04)
5. 202X ownership Gerhard Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1946-08-17–), Christiaan Wilhelm Joubert Marincowitz (1949-06-19–)

Who stood on this ground, and how they were related

Everyone the record places here - by deed, by residence, or by burial - and the kinship between each pair of them. Two numbers are given and they are deliberately kept apart. Steps is how far apart two people are in the family graph, counting a marriage as one step. The common ancestor is the nearest one they share by blood, with the year they were born. A pair four steps apart through a couple born in the 1750s is a relationship; a pair ten steps apart through a progenitor born in the 1630s is background, because almost everybody descends from him. Read both.

1. 1818 Ignatius Michael du Plessis held ../1818
2. 1818 Jan de Bruin held ../1818
3. 1829 Jan Adriaan Venter held ../1829
4. 1829 Maria Catharina Venter held ../1829
5. 1841 David Jan Strydom (Daniel son) held 1841-04-15
6. 1868 Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen held 1868-01-21
7. 1868 Stephanus Johannes Theron held 1868-01-21 · held 1872-07-17
8. 1895 Cecelia Maria du Plessis buried on 1895-04-10
9. 1901 Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz lived on 1901
10. — Gerhard Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz held 202X
11. — Christiaan Wilhelm Joubert Marincowitz held 202X
12. — Frederik Simon Oosthuizen lived on
13. — Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz lived on
14. — Roy Don Oosthuizen lived on

Drawn from the parentage and marriages this project holds, never from a shared surname. A pair with no common ancestor here may still be related through a link nobody has recorded yet. 16 further pairs are not listed because they are more than six steps apart, which is the distance this page has just told you to discount.

What the record holds, in order

1. 2 May 1818 document estate inventory
   MOOC8/64.12a
2. 2 May 1818 estate Ignatius Michael du Plessis (?–1818), Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea van Heerden
   MOOC8/64.12a · loan farm Rondabel, on the Tarka
3. before 1818 to 1823 ownership Ignatius Michael du Plessis (?–1818), Jan de Bruin (1769–23 December 1822)
   loan farm · occupation · confidence medium
4. 13 June 1823 document estate inventory
   MOOC8/38.12
5. 13 June 1823 estate Jan de Bruin (1769–23 December 1822), Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen (about 1775–10 October 1834)
   MOOC8/38.12 · loan farm Rondabel, in the Tarka
6. 29 October 1829 document estate inventory
   MOOC8/44.48
7. 29 October 1829 estate Jan Adriaan Venter (14 September 1794–23 July 1829), Maria Catharina Venter (1783–?)
   MOOC8/44.48 · the place Rondavel, field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort
8. before 1829 ownership Jan Adriaan Venter (14 September 1794–23 July 1829), Maria Catharina Venter (1783–?)
   loan farm · occupation · confidence high
9. August 1833 document SG diagram 366/1833
   Bf.W.Q.5-2?
10. 1841-04-15 to 1868 ownership David Jan Strydom (Daniel son) (12 August 1798–11 January 1882)
    Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
11. November 1863 document SG diagram 502/1867
    P.A.Q.1-21
12. 21 January 1868 ownership Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen, Stephanus Johannes Theron (3 September 1828–7 January 1879)
    Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
13. 17 July 1872 boundary change subdivision: becomes Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
14. 17 July 1872 ownership Stephanus Johannes Theron (3 September 1828–7 January 1879)
    transfer · confidence high
15. 10 April 1895 document death notice
16. April 1895 burial Cecelia Maria du Plessis (9 January 1857–10 April 1895)
    Rondabel werf graves, CECILIA MARIA THERON / GEBOREN DU P[LESSIS] / den 9 January 18[illegible] / overleden den 1[?9] April 1895 // Vrome vroeg gestorven vrienden / slechts zij [illegible] / [illegible] zult allen wederom [illegible] / als ons Jezus 't graf ontsluit
17. 1901 lived here Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (9 September 1875–8 October 1952)
    family testimony
18. 1910 boundary change subdivision: becomes Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)
19. August 1910 document SG diagram 1654/1910
    8326
20. 16 September 1910 document beacon report 1654/1910
21. 1919 boundary change subdivision: becomes Hartebeest Voedpad (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 5)
22. January 1919 document SG diagram 270/1919
23. 1919 document SG diagram 1872-23-208
24. 1919 document SG diagram
25. 1919 document SG diagram 1872-23-208 (p 2)
26. 1919 document SG diagram 1872-23-208 (p 3)
27. 1921 boundary change subdivision: becomes Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 6)
28. 1921 document SG diagram 891/1921
29. 1933 boundary change subdivision: becomes Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7)
30. 1936 lived here Frederik Simon Oosthuizen (29 May 1856–10 October 1936)
    farming · to 1936
31. 1999 lived here Roy Don Oosthuizen (9 December 1923–20 September 1999)
    farming · to 1999
32. 2003 lived here Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz (17 February 1919–4 July 2003)
    farming · to 2003
33. the 2020s ownership Gerhard Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (17 August 1946–?), Christiaan Wilhelm Joubert Marincowitz (19 June 1949–?)
    owner · confidence high
34. undated boundary change subdivision: becomes Visgat (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 2)
35. undated boundary change subdivision: becomes Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4)
36. undated boundary change subdivision: becomes Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 8
37. undated boundary change subdivision: becomes Rondabel No. 124 Remainder
38. undated document SG diagram verso 502/1867 (verso)
39. undated burial
    Rondabel werf graves
40. undated burial
    Rondabel werf graves

Ground cut out of this farm

• Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3) 3.4 ha
• Hartebeest Voedpad (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 5) 1390.9 ha
• Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 6) 2317.0 ha
• Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7) 1300.0 ha
• Rondabel No. 124 Remainder RE/124 · 3008.9 ha
• Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1) 3456.0 ha
• Visgat (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 2) 1800.3 ha
• Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4) 466.8 ha
• Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 8 139.5 ha

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

• E Kopjes Kraal
• N Remhoogte
• N Klip Gat
• E Klip Fontein
• S Government Land
• W Middelwater
• W Remhoogte
• W Droege Kloof (1833 diagram)

On the 1915 divisional map

As the Surveyor-General printed this farm in 1915: the registered holder, the date the title was issued and its quitrent reference, copied off the sheet as written. The whole map, farm by farm

Buried on this ground

• Rondabel werf graves 3 graves recorded, 1 identified in this project

The burials also appear on this farm's timeline above, each at its own date.

Also bordered by, as the modern cadastre draws it

Ground that touches this farm on the Surveyor-General's current polygons and that none of the diagrams held here names. Derived from the geometry, not read off a document.

• N Kalkgat (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 7)
• NE Kromrivier (Kopjes Kraal No. 123 Ptn 1)
• NE Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)
• NE Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
• E Kopjes Kraal No. 123 Remainder
• E Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4)
• SE Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 6)
• SE Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7)
• SE Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (Roode Els Bosch and Oorlogs Kloof)
• S Hartebeest Voedpad (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 5)
• S Die Kruine No. 170
• SW Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4)
• SW De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
• SW Rondabel No. 124 Remainder
• NW Visgat (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 2)
• NW Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 8
• NW Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 8
• NW Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 5)
• NW Swartskraal (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 6)

Documents

Surveyor-General diagram, 366/1833, August 1833
SCAN329.TIF

Surveyor-General diagram, 502/1867, November 1863
11025624.TIF

Diagram verso, 502/1867 (verso)
11025627.TIF

Estate inventory, deed MOOC8/38.12, 13 June 1823
make_pdf.pdf

Estate inventory, deed MOOC8/64.12a, 2 May 1818
make_pdf (2).pdf

Surveyor-General diagram, 1654/1910, August 1910
10676575 (1).PDF

beacon_report, 1654/1910, 16 September 1910
10676576 (1).PDF

Surveyor-General diagram, 270/1919, January 1919
10747350 (1).PDF

Surveyor-General diagram, 1872-23-208, 1919
10747351-3 (1).PDF

Surveyor-General diagram, 1919
10747354 (1).PDF

Surveyor-General diagram, 891/1921, 1921
10767696 (2).PDF

transcription held, not an image

Estate inventory, deed MOOC8/44.48, 29 October 1829

Surveyor-General diagram, 1872-23-208 (p 2), 1919

Surveyor-General diagram, 1872-23-208 (p 3), 1919

Death notice, 10 April 1895
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Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

The research behind this page, kept separate from it: dated working notes, open questions, and what is not yet settled.

Open questions

• The graves at the Rondabel huis - one named, and how many there are is not settled priority 1 · LEAD-0011

  Who lies in the two graves close to the Rondabel farmhouse?

  What would settle it Reading the stones, or a burial entry naming the farm

• Which Rondabel - Tarka (east) or Traka (Koup)? priority 1 · LEAD-0014

  Do the 1818 du Plessis and 1823 de Bruin inventories ('leeningsplaats Rondabel aan de Tarca / in Tarka') describe the Prince Albert Rondabel No. 124 (PAR-000009), or a namesake loan farm in the eastern-Cape Tarka?

  What would settle it Placing Greyling's or van Wyk's veldkornetskap, or a loan-farm register entry locating the leeningsplaats Rondabel.

• Which congregation baptised Jan de Bruijn in 1769? priority 1 · LEAD-0030

  The register page (SRC-168) gives the entry in full but not the church. If it is Roodezand/Tulbagh, the de Bruin family is a Tulbagh family and the Vrolykheid name-transfer of LEAD-0010 has a documented carrier. If it is Drakenstein or Swellendam, it does not.

  What would settle it The waypoint. This is a thirty-second lookup, not a research task.

• The Rondabel du Plessis ARE kin - Martha and Daniel are first cousins priority 1 · LEAD-0272

  MARTHA DU PLESSIS (PER-000750, 1730-1796) married Petrus VenterM on 14 October 1753 and their son is JAN LOUIS VENTER (PER-000120, b.1754) - father of the sixteen Venter children, of whom Adriana Cecilia married the root Oosthuizen and Maria Catharina held Rondabel by 1829. So du Plessis is a DIRECT ANCESTRAL SURNAME one generation above the Venter bloc, and that part is not in doubt. | Two other du Plessis touch the same farm. IGNATIUS MICHAEL DU PLESSIS (PER-000050, d.1818) held HALF THE OPSTAL of a loan farm called Rondabel. CECILIA MARIA DU PLESSIS (PER-001346, 1857-1895) died on Rondabel and is buried there (GRV-0021, DOC-0333). Is either of them kin to Martha, and is Ignatius Michael's Rondabel even the same farm?

  What would settle it A shared father and mother for Daniel and Martha du PlessisM.

• The Rondavel Venters - parentage, the two Jan Louis Venters, and Wolwekraal priority 2 · LEAD-0015

  (a) Who were Jan Adriaan VenterL's (PER-000350) parents - vernoeming suggests a father named Willem; (b) who are 'Jan Louis VenterL j:r' and 'the widow of Jan Louis VenterL' in the 1829 debts, given the tree kills Johanna Jacomina SmitM in 1824 and a Jan Louis witnesses a baptism in 1837; (c) is the Wolwekraal grantee Johannes Hendrik VenterL (PER-000095) the widow's brother Johannes Henricus (); (d) 8 Nov vs 8 Dec 1823 for Jan Adriaan jr (PER-000096); (e) when did the Venters arrive on Rondavel and how did it pass to the Strydoms by the 1833 survey?

  What would settle it Registers and the two grant/survey files.

• Where exactly is Vischat / 'fisgat', and what is its real name? priority 2 · LEAD-0018

  Vischat is where Frans's grandfather Hendrik Lodewyk Malherbe OosthuizenM farmed until 1979 and where his father CJJ grew up, yet the model has no ground for it: no extent, no geometry, no ownership row, no document. Which parcel does it actually sit on, and is the name Vischgat/Visgat?

  What would settle it The purchase deed - it will name the parcel Vischat forms part of. Failing that, a topo sheet showing the werf, or CJJ simply saying which farm it was on.

• Reopen: is the 1818/1823 Rondabel of the inventories ours or an eastern namesake? priority 2 · LEAD-0092

  Were the field cornets Stephanus van Wyk (1818) and Abraham Greyling (1815) Koup wards or eastern Graaff-Reinet wards?

  What would settle it A ward list for Graaff-Reinet and for Beaufort in those years.

• Three Orphan Chamber inventories put Rondabel 'in the Tarka' and this model pins them to farm 124 priority 2 · LEAD-0183

  INV-0001 (MOOC8/64.12a, 1818), INV-0002 (MOOC8/38.12, 1823) and INV-0027 (MOOC8/44.48, 1829) are all linked to PAR-000009, Rondabel No. 124 near Klaarstroom, yet each describes the place as lying in the Tarka or Traka. Is that this Rondabel?

  What would settle it A district named alongside 'Tarka' in the 1818 or 1823 inventory, or a chain of holders running from these estates into the 1841 grantee of farm 124.

• Who were Cecilia Maria du Plessis's parents - and was Rondabel her own family's ground first? priority 2 · LEAD-0267

  PER-001346, buried at Rondabel in 1895, has NO parents in this model. Two du Plessis holdings of Rondabel sit fifty years apart: Ignatius Michael du PlessisH (PER-000050, d.1818) held it as a LOAN FARM before 1818 with Jan de BruinH (OWN-000025), and Cecilia Maria du Plessis married into the Theron family that was co-granted it in 1868. Is there any descent between them, or is it a coincidence of one of the commonest surnames at the Cape?

  What would settle it Her father's name, and whether he descends from Ignatius Michael du PlessisH.

• An eleventh child: the daughter of two months on Cecilia Maria Theron's death notice priority 2 · LEAD-0268

  Her death notice of 1895 (DOC-0333) records ELEVEN children - nine living and two dead. This model holds TEN. The form's two deceased are a SON of 7 months and a DAUGHTER of 2 months. The model holds one deceased child, Johannes Gysbert (PER-001169), and no deceased daughter at all. Who was she, and when?

  What would settle it A baptism or burial entry for a Theron daughter of Petrus Jacobus and Cecilia Maria between 1892 and 1895.

• Two identity questions opened by the Theron kin map: which Jan Adriaan holds Rondabel, and which Venter married into it priority 2 · LEAD-0269

  (1) OWN-000021, the Rondabel quitrent grant of 21 January 1868, is recorded against PER-000046 'Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL', a row with NO dates. Is he Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia's son Johannes Adriaan (PER-000003, 1816-1882)? If so the two grantees are brothers-in-law, because the other is Stephanus Johannes TheronL who married that man's sister Dina Magdalena. (2) Isabella Louise Jacoba VenterM (PER-001345, 1875-1939), second wife of Petrus Jacobus TheronL - has she any descent from Adriana Cecilia VenterM's family, or is the surname a coincidence?

  What would settle it (1) The grantee's given names and any age or farm on the 1868 title. (2) Isabella's parents.

• Martha du Plessis (1730-1796) - who were her parents? priority 2 · LEAD-0273

  She married Petrus VenterM on 14 October 1753 and their son Jan Louis VenterL fathered the sixteen Venter children of STO-0046, three of whom married Oosthuizens and one of whom held Rondabel by 1829. She has no parents recorded here.

  What would settle it Her father's name.

• Anna Maria Theron, born 13 January 1827 in the Klein Roggeveld - a sister the model does not hold priority 2 · LEAD-0274

  The 1828 register opening that gives Stephanus Johannes TheronL's baptism (SRC-546) carries, immediately above it, ANNA MARIA, born 13 January 1827, same parents - Petrus Jacobus TheronL and Aletta Francina Botma - and the same veldcornetcy, Klein Roggeveld. This model holds only ONE child of that couple: Stephanus Johannes. How many were there, and does any other of them come to the Koup?

  What would settle it The full sibship, and whether any sibling other than Stephanus Johannes turns up on Koup ground.

• Vischat, Vischgat or Visgat, and where does the name come from? priority 3 · LEAD-0024

  The place is now located (PLC-000034, on Rondabel). What is its actual name, and does any document use it?

  What would settle it Any document or map using the name, or CJJ simply saying it.

• The drill bit on Rondabel, whose rig, and which of the four searches? priority 3 · LEAD-0051

  There is a drill bit on Tokkie's farm Rondabel (PAR-000009) from exploration drilling, which Frans remembers as French and dates to the 1950s, 60s or 70s. Whose was it?

  What would settle it A photograph of the maker's mark, or a borehole on Rondabel in the national register.

• Oosthuizen Marincowitz: Rondawel or Koppieskraal, and who was his brother Boy? priority P2 · LEAD-0344

  Two accounts in one book put a man called Oosthuizen Marincowitz on two different farms in the same war. Which was his, and is 'Boy' a fourth Marincowitz this project does not hold?

  What would settle it A baptism or marriage naming the brothers together, or a deed or lease putting a Marincowitz on Koppieskraal.

What the record is missing

• 27 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession

  On Rondabel, David Jan StrydomH (Daniel son) is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is Jan Adriaan OosthuizenL and Stephanus Johannes TheronL from 1868-01-21, 27 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0186 records the later arrival but not the 27 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1868. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

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.