Kromrivier (Kopjes Kraal No. 123 Ptn 1)

1/123 on the cadastre · on record 1933–1934 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 123
Portion: 1
On the cadastre: 1/123, portionregistered as KOPJES KRAAL
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2327.9295 morgen
Modern surveyed area: 1992.3 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

Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz held it. 24 km from Klaarstroom.

Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz is on record on this ground directly. No trace needed.

parcel Cut out of Kopjes Kraal
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0247

What the record holds, in order

October 1933 document SG diagram 3281/1933
1934 boundary change subdivision: from Kopjes Kraal
16 May 1934 ownership Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (9 September 1875–8 October 1952)
freehold · transfer · confidence medium

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.

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, 3281/1933, October 1933

Surveyor-General diagram, 3281/1933, October 1933
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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 Kopjes Kraal 1934; SG Dgm 3281/33; deed 1934-73-3876

[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 "Kromrivier (Kopjes Kraal Ptn 1)" 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

Morgen or hectares? extent_text may be inconsistent priority 1 · LEAD-0007
Are the figures in parcels.extent_text really morgen, or are some of them hectares mislabelled as morgen?

What would settle it Reading the figure and its unit directly off the diagrams for the nine flagged parcels.
141 people are on this site linked to nothing priority 1 · LEAD-0074
Which parcels and people exist on the site as dead ends - reachable by a list, but linked to no document, story, owner or neighbour?

What would settle it For the 106 tree-derived rows, a parentage pass merged from the family-tree on tree id - which 6 already names as the direction of travel and which would connect them wholesale rather than one at a time. For the three floating names, find the document each came from and link it.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1934 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends
Kromrivier (Kopjes Kraal No. 123 Ptn 1) was worked as far as 1934-05-16, with Gert Jan Oosthuizen MarincowitzL the last owner on record. 92 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

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.