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Farm PAR-000054

Wolwekraal No. 17

17 on the cadastre · on record 1841–1857 · show on the map

Farm number
No. 17
On the cadastre
17, whole farmregistered as WOLVE KRAAL
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
14502 morgen
Modern surveyed area
11462.0 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

Jan Adriaan Venter held it, a blood relative of the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines, 4 steps away. 44 km from Klaarstroom.

  1. Jan Adriaan Venter
  2. child of Maria Catharina Venter
  3. child of Jan Louis Venter
  4. parent of Adriana Cecilia Venter
  5. parent of Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen

Each step is a recorded parentage or marriage in this model, and the shortest one the record supports, follow the names to check it.

Stories

Held with the neighbouring portions

One holder had this ground and the pieces below at the same time, so on the ground they were very likely worked as one farm even though the cadastre keeps them apart. Each keeps its own history here; this only records that they were in the same hands.

What this farm became

From 1857-03-10 this ground stopped being one farm, and the story continues on the pieces cut from it. Its own record above ends there; what happened afterwards belongs to a portion, not to the whole.

Who stood on this ground, and how they were related

Everyone the record places here - by deed, by residence, or by burial - and the kinship between each pair of them. Two numbers are given and they are deliberately kept apart. Steps is how far apart two people are in the family graph, counting a marriage as one step. The common ancestor is the nearest one they share by blood, with the year they were born. A pair four steps apart through a couple born in the 1750s is a relationship; a pair ten steps apart through a progenitor born in the 1630s is background, because almost everybody descends from him. Read both.

1850 1875 Johannes Hendrik Venter 1841 Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7 1851 Johannes Hendrik Mostert 1855 Jan Adriaan Venter 1855
Each bar is one person's time on this ground. A faded bar has no recorded end and is closed at the next arrival, which is our inference and not a date anybody wrote down. Where two people who follow each other are related within six steps, the step count is printed between them.
  1. 1841 Johannes Hendrik Venter held 1841-04-15
  2. 1851 Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) lived on 1851
  3. 1855 Johannes Hendrik Mostert held 1855-11-20
  4. 1855 Jan Adriaan Venter held 1855-11-20
StepsBetweenNearest common ancestor by blood
4 Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) · Jan Adriaan Venter none within twelve generations

Drawn from the parentage and marriages this project holds, never from a shared surname. A pair with no common ancestor here may still be related through a link nobody has recorded yet.

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1841-04-15 to 1855-11-20 ownership Johannes Hendrik Venter
    quitrent · grant · confidence high
  2. 1851 lived here Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3) (16 April 1827–8 September 1909)
    farming
  3. 1855-11-20 to 1857-03-10 ownership Johannes Hendrik Mostert, Jan Adriaan Venter (8 December 1823–23 November 1898)
    freehold · transfer · confidence high
  4. 10 March 1857 boundary change subdivision: becomes Venterskraal (Wolwekraal portion)
  5. undated boundary change subdivision: becomes Leeuw Rivier (Venterskraal resurvey)

Ground cut out of this farm

On the 1915 divisional map

As the Surveyor-General printed this farm in 1915: the registered holder, the date the title was issued and its quitrent reference, copied off the sheet as written. The whole map, farm by farm

Farm, as printedHolderTitleQuitrentNote
WOLVE KRAALJ. H. Venter J. son15 April 1841B.W.Q. 6.9 · fol. 1034the Traka Wolve Kraal; completes the a1c5 label

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

Research notes

[SRC-072] About 80 km from Prince Albert on the Rietbron road. Granted 15 APRIL 1841 to Johannes Hendrik VenterL (PER-000095) - AK: Qts Vol 6 Fol 9. THE NINTH FARM ON THAT DAY, and the deed volume/folio sits inside the same run as Varsche Fontein (Bf.W.Q.6-23). Split in half 10 Mar 1857 into Venterskraal (PAR-000055) and the Wolwekraal remainder. Still held by a descendant of the original owners in 2002 - Francina Christina Schneider nee de Swardt.

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

Open questions