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Farm PAR-000023

Part of Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)

Lot B (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 4)

· on record 1909 · show on the map

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

Farm number
No. 26
Portion
4
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
6098 morgen 243 sq roods
Modern surveyed area
5237.3 ha

The historic extent and the modern surveyed area are two separate measurements and are not presented here as confirming each other. The first is what a surveyor wrote on a diagram, usually in morgen. The second is what the modern cadastre draws.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 54 km from Klaarstroom.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1), the farm this ground was part of until 1909. 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 432/1834 Bf.W.Q.5-26
  2. 1841-04-15 to 1848-07-21 ownership Cornelis Floris Johannes Meyer (1791-07-15–1848-07-21) Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
  3. 1850 boundary subdivision: from Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)
  4. 1850 boundary subdivision: becomes Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
  5. 1871~ to 1874-06-30 ownership Lodewyk Bothma (1802-05-24–1874-06-30) owner · confidence high
  6. 1872 boundary subdivision: becomes Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 2
  7. ../1874-06-30 residence Lodewyk Bothma (1802-05-24–1874-06-30) death notice
  8. 1884 residence Frans Stephanus Botma (1860-1936) (1860-02–1936-04-04) register
  9. 1886-07-24 grave Engela Susara Niehaus, born Botes Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1), Hier rust het lijk van ENGELA SUSARA NIEHAUS geb BOTES, overleden op den 24 July 1886. Met den ouderdom van 49 jaar 2 maanden en 22 dagen. Then Revelation 14:13: 'Zalig zyn de dooden die in de Heer sterven van nu aan, ja zegt de gees, opdat zy rusten mogen van hunne arbeid, en hunne werken volgen met hen. Openb. 14:13.' Cut in a fine cursive hand across the whole slab.
  10. 1891-08-20 document newspaper
  11. 1894-04 document SG diagram 3762/1898 (pt 1) P.T.A.Q.5-12
  12. 1894-04 document SG diagram 3762/1898 (pt 2) P.T.A.Q.5-12
  13. 1903 boundary remainder: becomes Klein Waterval (Spreeufontein No. 26 Remainder)
  14. 1909 boundary subdivision: becomes Lot A (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 3)
  15. 1909 boundary subdivision: becomes Lot B (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 4)
  16. 1909 boundary subdivision: becomes Lot C (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 5)
  17. 19XX boundary subdivision: from Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)
  18. 19XX boundary subdivision: becomes Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
  19. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Lot A (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 3)
  20. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Lot B (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 4)
  21. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Lot C (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 5)
  22. undated document SG diagram verso 3762/1898 (verso)
  23. undated document SG diagram verso 432/1834 (verso)
  24. undated grave Gertruida Johanna Swanepoel Botma burial ground, Vredendal / Gatsplaas (Spreeufontein Ptn 1), Not seen by this project. eGGSA caption: 'SWANEPOEL Gertruida Johanna 1915-'. The dash with no closing year means the photographer read a birth year and no death year, or the death year was illegible.

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1909 boundary change subdivision: from Vredendal (Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 1)
  2. undated boundary change subdivision: from Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)

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.

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Surveyor-General diagram index for the whole farm, where the original survey of this ground sits.

Research notes

cut from Portion 1 in 1909; deed 1909-83-5219

*** [4 Aug 2026, LEAD-0084 RESOLVED] THE MATCHER WAS NEVER AT FAULT. *** The polygon for this parcel carries WSTATUS='H' - SUPERSEDED. match_cadastre.py indexes superseded features by their LPI ONLY and keeps them out of the name and farm-number indexes, so nothing automatic can land on one. That is deliberate and documented in the loader: a superseded polygon is reachable by an explicit PIN and by nothing else, because a pin is somebody saying "I know, use this one". For a history site a superseded shape is often the only correct geometry there is - Modderdrift Portion 4 is the precedent. PINNED HERE, on the same evidence Modderdrift was: the extents agree - 5 223,1 ha teen 5 240,5 ha, 0,3%. The pin survives future runs of the matcher by design.

[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 "Spreeufontein Portion 4 (Lot B)" before. Nothing about the ground changed.

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

Open questions

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.