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Farm PAR-000015

Part of Varsche Fontein

Lot A (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 1)

· on record 1913 · show on the map

The farm's own history, the grant, the original survey, sits on that page.

Farm number
No. 27
Portion
1
Also recorded as
Lot ADIAGRAMpart of VarschefonteinFAMILY, worked today as one unit with Portion 4
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
1731 morgen 181 sq roods

This parcel has no matched survey polygon, so it cannot be drawn on the map. That is a gap in the cadastre match, not an absence from the record.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. Not yet placed on the map.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Varsche Fontein, the farm this ground was part of until 1913. It is shown here because this ground was that farm, and separately from what follows because before the cut the record says the farm's name and not which part of it. Not everything below necessarily happened on this piece.

  1. 1834 document SG diagram 353/1834 Bf.W.Q.6-23
  2. 1841-04-15 ownership Charl du Toit (1797-09-17–) Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
  3. 1848 grave B. Storm Varsche Fontein farm cemetery, B. STORM 1848, scratched on a slate slab set upright in a stone kerb. Nothing else is cut on the stone.
  4. 1849 grave M. Storm Varsche Fontein farm cemetery, M STORM / 1849, read across two fragments of one broken slab: 'M S' and '18' on the left piece, 'TORM' and '49' on the right. Deeply and neatly cut, in plain capitals, with no other text.
  5. 1874-06 grave G.F. Beukes Varsche Fontein - the single grave in the veld, 1874 / G F / BEU / KES / Juny, and below it what appears to be 15. Cut by hand into a thin sandstone slab, the letters shallow and irregular and the surname broken across three lines because the stone is narrow. Frans's reading; the 15 is the least certain part.
  6. 1897-04 document SG diagram No.2 1903 (CL-7) PA folio 1048
  7. 1897-04 document SG diagram verso 2/1903 (verso)
  8. 1902-06 grave Maria Elizabeth Freysen Varsche Fontein farm cemetery, MARIHA ELIESABET FREYSEN, GEBOR 6 OCTO[BER] 1901, OVERLEID [4?] JUNY 1902. Above the panel, a rayed sun or star inside an arch.
  9. 1903 ownership J.R.G. Luttig (1824~–1914-02-04) amended-title · confidence high
  10. 1907-08-03 grave M.J. Beukes, or a child of M.J. Beukes Varsche Fontein farm cemetery, [Ter ge]dachtenis aan / [illegible word] M·J·BEUKES / O[verlede] 3. 8. 1907. Cut by hand into a sandstone slab in a mixed script - the first line in cursive, the name in capitals - with a ruled border and an incised cross or star above. The word before the initials is not legible and it is the word that decides who is buried here.
  11. 1913 boundary subdivision: becomes Lot A (Varsche Fontein No. 27 Ptn 1)
  12. 1913-03 grave Jacobus Johannes Beukes (infant) Varsche Fontein farm cemetery, JACOBES : JOHANES / BEUKES / GEB 26 MAAIE 1912 / [O]VER[L] 10 MAART 191[3] / IS HET WEL MET / 'T KIND / HET IS ALLES WEL.

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1913 boundary change subdivision: from Varsche Fontein
  2. 1913 ownership owner not named in the record
    transfer · confidence medium

Research notes

cut from Varsche Fontein 1913; SG Dgm 2087/1913; deed 1913-169-11114

[13 Aug 2026] Renamed to the one form this model uses for every portion - the portion's own name, then the parent farm, its number and the portion in brackets - so that a name is legible in a list, a search result and a map popup without the reader having to know which farm number is which. It read "Lot A (Varsche Fontein Ptn 1)" before. Nothing about the ground changed.

[13 Aug 2026, FAMILY] Worked today as one unit with Portion 4 (PAR-000018) under the name Varschefontein - The documented parcel is kept separate at his instruction. NOTE WHAT THE CADASTRE SAYS ABOUT THIS: there is no polygon for Portion 1 in the Surveyor-General pull and no Portion 1 row in the 2023 valuation roll, so this portion has stopped existing as a separate registered unit - which is what "considered one unit" looks like in the record.

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

What the record is missing

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.