Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)

3/124 on the cadastre · on record 1910 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 124
Portion: 3
On the cadastre: 3/124, portionregistered as RONDABLE
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 4 morgen 33 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 3.4 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

Ground a written history is set on. 24 km from Klaarstroom.

story A written history is set on this ground Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
parcel Cut out of Rondabel

Stories

about this farm Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
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.

What the record holds, in order

1910 boundary change subdivision: from Rondabel

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

SG Dgm 1654/1910; transfer deed 8326, 26 Nov 1910. Tiny - a water or building site.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-220 verso] A SMALL DISAGREEMENT, recorded not resolved. The deduction table on the back of the Portion 1 diagram gives Brand Kraal as 4 morgen 53 square roods and deed 1910.133.8526; this row carries 4 morgen 33. Both readings are of typescript, both are legible, and I cannot tell from here which is right. [TO VERIFY]

[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 "Brand Kraal (Rondabel Ptn 3)" 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.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3) is in the model and drawn on the map, and carries no ownership record of any kind, not a grant, not a transfer, not an occupation.

What would settle it The Surveyor-General's diagram for the farm number names the grantee and the date; the deed reference on it opens the transfer chain.

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.