Kweekvallei

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.

story A written history is set on this ground The church at Zeekoegat
story A written history names this ground Eighty-one thousand morgen

Stories

set here The church at Zeekoegat
Three generations of Oosthuizens in the Zwartberg church, and the rich farmer who built a chapel 65 km out on the dirt for a hundred people.
mentions this farm Eighty-one thousand morgen
Frederik Simon 'Oom Frikkie' Oosthuizen died in 1936 holding, by one account, 81,000 morgen around Zwartkraal - about a quarter of all the ground on this map. This project holds not one deed in his name. What the money was probably in, what it was certainly not in, and the one document that would settle it.

What the record holds, in order

No dated record on this parcel yet. It is on the map because the Surveyor-General has a polygon for it; the history is not transcribed.

Research notes

The loan farm on which the Zwartberg NG congregation was founded in 1842, and on which the town of Prince Albert was laid out. Ockert Almero OosthuizenL bought five erven of it for the church.

[3 Aug 2026] AND IT IS WHERE THE PROJECT ACTUALLY BEGINS, chronologically. Zacharias and Dina de Beer took this loan farm in 1762 - eighty years before the congregation was founded on it and the village laid out, and seventy-nine before the 1841 grants that set the rest of the district. Every other family in this history arrives after them. The de Beers then married outward: into the Venters (Wintervelt, 1833), the Oosthuizens (1851), the Mienies (Richmond, 1849), and they held the field cornetcy of the Koup in 1833-34.

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

Open questions

A story: the de Beers of Kweekvallei, the family the town of Prince Albert was built on priority 1 · LEAD-0073
Can the de Beer line be traced continuously from the 1762 loan farm Queeckvalleij to the families this project follows - and is that the earliest thread in the whole history?

What would settle it The 1762 loan-farm grant naming Zacharias and Dina, and a line of descent from him to Matthys Andries de BeerM (b. 1799), the field-cornet candidate.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Kweekvallei is in the model, 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.