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Farm PAR-000041

Part of Middelwater

Klein Vlei (Middelwater portion)

· on record 1883 · show on the map

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

Farm number
No. 169
District
Prince Albert

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

Ground a written history is set on. Not yet placed on the map.

Stories

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Middelwater, the farm this ground was part of until 1883. 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. 1777/1860 boundary subdivision: from De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm)
  2. 1777/1860 boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater
  3. 1777/1860 boundary same_as: becomes De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
  4. 1777 event De Claar Stroom loan farm granted parent farm of Middelwater and Klaarstroom This is PAR-000097, Klaarstroom No. 178. The loan farm itself is PAR-000004.
  5. 1821~ to 188X ownership Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (1792-06-14–1860) occupation · confidence medium
  6. 1821~ residence Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (1792-06-14–1860) farming
  7. 1822 ownership Jan Louis Venter (1754–1824), Johanna Jacomina Smit (1760–1824) loan farm · occupation · confidence high
  8. 1822 residence Jan Louis Venter (1754–1824) tax roll
  9. 1833 boundary consolidation: becomes Drooge Kloof
  10. 1833-08 document SG diagram 349/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-7
  11. 1833 to 1841-04-15 ownership Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1786-04-24–1859-02-26) loan farm · occupation · confidence high
  12. 1836-11-27 residence Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1836-11-27–1922-01-02) birth/farming
  13. 1836 residence Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819) (1819-05-31–1856-09-24) farming
  14. 1841-04-15 ownership owner not named in the record Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence medium
  15. 1850~ residence Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828) (1828–1871-04-24) farming
  16. 1860-02-18 residence Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom (1792-01-05–1860-02-18) farming · to 1860-02-18
  17. 1865 event The 1865 drought: watering the Middelwater orange grove from vats So dry that Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen, then living on Middelwater (PAR-000001), watered the orange grove before the house with wagon and vats so the trees would not die; the only water left stood in the heights toward Kouwveldt at the steep drift. His grandson's diary carries it, from his son's telling - the only picture of daily life on Middelwater in the 1860s this record holds.
  18. 1865~ residence Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen (1816-11-20–1882-08-11) memoir
  19. 1883 boundary subdivision: becomes Klein Vlei (Middelwater portion)
  20. 1883-10 document SG diagram 1364/1883 P.A.Q.3-3
  21. 1883 document SG diagram verso 1364/1883 (verso)
  22. 19XX boundary subdivision: becomes Rietfontein
  23. undated boundary remainder: becomes Moreson (Middelwater No. 169 Remainder)
  24. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 1
  25. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 2
  26. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 3
  27. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4)
  28. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 7
  29. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Remainder (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 2)

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1883 boundary change subdivision: from Middelwater

Research notes

Deducted from Middelwater per SG 1459/1883. Klein Vlei is also named as Middelwater's southern neighbour on the 1883 diagram [TO VERIFY which sense]. [29 Jul 2026, verification pass] DOC-0039 (the 1883 verso) lists NO Klein Vlei deduction from farm 169 (only 169/1 "part marked pink", 169/5 Vaste Water, 169/6 Avondrust), and the 1989 servitude map shows no Klein Vlei Gedeelte. The 1883 diagram's southern NEIGHBOUR sense is supported instead: the modern cadastre has farm No.182 "KLEIN VALIE" (6,297 ha) directly south-west of Middelwater. This parcel may not be a Middelwater portion at all - decision pending.

[1 Aug 2026] PORTION NUMBER DELIBERATELY LEFT BLANK. checks.py asks for one, and it cannot be supplied honestly: the cadastre names every portion of this farm identically, so the polygons cannot be told apart by name and there is no diagram here that says which portion this is. Guessing a number to satisfy a check would be exactly the invented precision 3 forbids. [TO VERIFY] from the farm's deduction table or the CSG diagram index.

[8 Aug 2026] THE 1883 FACE DECIDES IT: KLEIN VLEI IS A NEIGHBOUR, NOT A PORTION OF MIDDLEWATER. DOC-0001's bounded-by line reads "Bounded North by Remhoogte, South by Klein Vlei, East by Rondable & Klaarstroom, West by Remhoogte & Venterskloof" - Klein Vlei stands in a list of four neighbouring farms and in no other role on the sheet. The verso's deduction table has now been read in full and Klein Vlei is not in it; the entry that was mistaken for it is "the part marked pink", 169/1, survey record 1437/1883. The 1833 sheet (DOC-0038) names the same neighbour "Klein Valle" and puts it WEST where 1883 puts it SOUTH, which is what two hands make of a farm lying to the south-west; the modern cadastre's farm No. 182 "KLEIN VALIE" sits exactly there. So this parcel row is a Middelwater portion that never existed, and the blank portion number was blank because there was nothing to put in it. PENDING: merge this row into a neighbour row for Klein Valie No. 182, or retire it. Not done here because retiring a parcel touches ownership, neighbour and story links, and that is its own pass.

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.