Part of Rondabel

Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)

· 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

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 Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
• parcel Cut out of Rondabel

Stories

• about this farm Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
  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.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Rondabel, the farm this ground was part of until 1910. 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. 1818-05-02 document estate inventory MOOC8/64.12a
2. 1818-05-02 inventory estate inventory: Ignatius Michael du Plessis & Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea van Heerden MOOC8/64.12a · loan farm Rondabel, on the Tarka
3. ../1818 to 1823 ownership Ignatius Michael du Plessis (–1818), Jan de Bruin (1769–1822-12-23) loan farm · occupation · confidence medium
4. 1823-06-13 document estate inventory MOOC8/38.12
5. 1823-06-13 inventory estate inventory: Jan de Bruin & Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen MOOC8/38.12 · loan farm Rondabel, in the Tarka
6. 1829-10-29 document estate inventory MOOC8/44.48
7. 1829-10-29 inventory estate inventory: Jan Adriaan Venter & Maria Catharina Elisabeth Venter MOOC8/44.48 · the place Rondavel, field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort
8. ../1829 ownership Jan Adriaan Venter (1794-09-14–1829-07-23), Maria Catharina Venter (1783–) loan farm · occupation · confidence high
9. 1833-08 document SG diagram 366/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-2?
10. 1841-04-15 to 1868 ownership David Jan Strydom (Daniel son) (1798-08-12–1882-01-11) Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
11. 1863-11 document SG diagram 502/1867 P.A.Q.1-21
12. 1868-01-21 ownership Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen, Stephanus Johannes Theron (1828-09-03–1879-01-07) Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
13. 1872-07-17 boundary subdivision: becomes Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
14. 1872-07-17 ownership Stephanus Johannes Theron (1828-09-03–1879-01-07) transfer · confidence high
15. 1895-04-10 document death notice
16. 1895-04 grave Cecilia Maria Theron Rondabel werf graves, CECILIA MARIA THERON / GEBOREN DU P[LESSIS] / den 9 January 18[illegible] / overleden den 1[?9] April 1895 // Vrome vroeg gestorven vrienden / slechts zij [illegible] / [illegible] zult allen wederom [illegible] / als ons Jezus 't graf ontsluit
17. 1901 residence Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1875-09-09–1952-10-08) family testimony
18. 1910 boundary subdivision: becomes Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)
19. 1910-08 document SG diagram 1654/1910 8326
20. 1910-09-16 document beacon report 1654/1910
21. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Visgat (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 2)
22. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4)
23. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 8
24. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Rondabel No. 124 Remainder
25. undated document SG diagram verso 502/1867 (verso)
26. undated grave Rondabel werf graves

What the record holds, in order

1. 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.

• N Klipgat No. 114
• S Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
• SW Rondabel

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

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.