Part of Jansenskraal No. 104

Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2)

· on record 1841–2017 · show on the map

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

Farm number

No. 104

Portion

2

District

Prince Albert

Extent, as the diagram states it

3418 morgen

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

Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7) lived on this ground. Connected to the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines BY MARRIAGE, not by blood, 7 steps on the shortest path. Not yet placed on the map.

1. Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7)
2. child of Frederik Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3)
3. child of Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7)
4. married to Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter
5. child of Maria Catharina Venter
6. child of Jan Louis Venter
7. parent of Adriana Cecilia Venter
8. 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.

• story A written history names this ground The Prince Albert gold rush
• story A written history is set on this ground The church at Zeekoegat
• story A written history names this ground Cut, and then stitched
• story A written history is set on this ground Six graves on Botterkraal
• …and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

Stories

• mentions this farm The Prince Albert gold rush
  An aardvark turns up a nugget on Spreeuwfontein in 1871; twenty years later a shepherd finds a second one and five hundred people arrive. 1,042 claims yield 504 ounces. The diggers' village was called Gatsplaas.
• 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 Cut, and then stitched
  This project holds 124 boundary acts: 96 subdivisions and 20 consolidations. Sorted by date they tell one story with a turning point. The district cut ground for a hundred and fifty years; from 1970 it has only stitched.
• set here Six graves on Botterkraal
  A farm cemetery near Zeekoegat holds six burials between 1927 and 1942. Fifteen years, and the whole of what happened to one family, in one fenced plot: the purchase in 1919, ACVV relief, a fence built by hand, nine hundred wethers walked home from Colesberg, and a forced sale in 1943.
• mentions this farm The war reaches the Koup
  The Anglo-Boer War came to these farms twice: up the road from Klaarstroom on 2 February 1901, when a running fight through Die Gang left a Boer of Scheepers's commando dead on Remhoogte; and quietly in 1903, when a woman from Tulbagh married into a Prince Albert family having buried two brothers in Natal thirty-four days apart - two brothers Deneys Reitz very probably names in Commando.

What the record holds, in order

1. 1841-04-15 to 1868-11-17 ownership Christian Hatting Senior
   quitrent · grant · confidence high
2. 1868-11-17 to 1896-10-08 ownership P.H. du Plessis
   quitrent · transfer · confidence high
3. May 1893 document SG diagram 1319/1896
   Transfer 6578 of 8.10.1896
4. 8 October 1896 ownership P.H. du Plessis
   quitrent · transfer · confidence high
5. 1915 lived here Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7) (14 July 1864–14 November 1927)
   farming
6. 1919-01-23 to 1927-01-27 ownership Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7) (14 July 1864–14 November 1927), Pieter Johannes Swanepoel (b6c5d7e16f1)
   freehold · transfer · confidence high
7. 1920 boundary change subdivided_into: becomes Boter Kraal Oost (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 3)
8. the 1920s lived here Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5) (1893–30 January 1948)
   farming
9. the 1920s lived here Elizabeth "Bettie" Maria Swanepoel (van Eck) (about 1917–?)
   childhood
10. 14 November 1927 burial Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel (b6c5d7e3f7) (14 July 1864–14 November 1927)
    Botterkraal, cement headstone, INSCRIPTION CUT ON THE BACK and now completely unreadable
11. 1927-01-27 to 1940-10-08 ownership Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5) (1893–30 January 1948), Jacobus Johannes Gerrit "Kootjie" Swanepoel (28 October 1895–14 November 1939)
    freehold · transfer · confidence high
12. 17 July 1938 burial Maria Susanna Jacoba van Zyl (15 April 1866–17 July 1938)
    Botterkraal, 15-04-1866 / 17-7-1938
13. December 1938 burial Louisa Petronella Swanepoel
    Botterkraal, 3-8-1925 / 8-12-1938?
14. 14 November 1939 burial Jacobus Johannes Gerrit "Kootjie" Swanepoel (28 October 1895–14 November 1939)
    Botterkraal, 28-10-1895 / 14-11-1939
15. August 1940 burial Maria Susanna Jacoba (Miemie) Swanepoel
    Botterkraal, 11-6-1919 / 14-8-1940?
16. 1940-10-08 to 1943-06-06 ownership Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnr (b6c5d7e3f7g5) (1893–30 January 1948)
    freehold · transfer · confidence high
17. January 1942 burial Theodoris Louis van Eck
    Botterkraal, 23-07-1940 / Jan 1942 - drowned in a dam on Tierberg, aged 18 months
18. 6 June 1943 ownership Jan Jacobus Adriaan Minie
    freehold · transfer · confidence high
19. 2016 boundary change consolidation: becomes Farm 237
20. 2016 boundary change subdivided_into: becomes Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 6
21. 2017 document SG diagram verso 1319/1896 (verso)
22. undated boundary change subdivision: from Jansenskraal No. 104

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

• W Tierberg (T.L. van Eck)
• · Caroluskraal (Jan Swanepoel)
• · F.S. Marincowitz
• · G. Raubenheimer
• · Estate late P.J. Swanepoel
• · Klein Botterkraal (the Oosthuizens)

Buried on this ground

• Botterkraal 6 graves recorded, 3 identified in this project · no coordinate yet

The burials also appear on this farm's timeline above, each at its own date.

Documents

Surveyor-General diagram, 1319/1896, May 1893
11414737

held as pdf

Diagram verso, 1319/1896 (verso), 2017
11414738

Research notes

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

Open questions

• Four portions have a polygon in geo/ that match_cadastre.py still will not pick up priority 2 · LEAD-0084

  Why does the matcher miss PAR-000023, PAR-000058, PAR-000069 and PAR-000144 when their exact PRCL_KEYs are present?

  What would settle it Printing the matcher's computed key beside the cadastre key for one of these four.

• Which Botterkraal was the mail coach taken on priority 2 · LEAD-0131

  The Boers seized the mail coach and horses at Botterkraal, on the road between Prince Albert Road station and the village. Which Botterkraal, and in what month of 1901?

  What would settle it A dated report naming the farm.

What the record is missing

• “G. Raubenheimer” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them first order · B4 unheld-owner

  A boundary description for Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) names G. RaubenheimerM, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. No one of that surname holds a single ownership span anywhere in this model.

  What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.

• “Tierberg (T.L. van Eck)” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them first order · B4 unheld-owner

  A boundary description for Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) names Tierberg (T.L. van Eck), a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. No one of that surname holds a single ownership span anywhere in this model.

  What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.

• 27 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession

  On Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2), Christian Hatting SeniorH is the last owner recorded from 1841-04-15, and the next entry is P.H. du PlessisH from 1868-11-17, 27 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0297 records the later arrival but not the 27 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1841 and 1868. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

• 23 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession

  On Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2), P.H. du PlessisH is the last owner recorded from 1896-10-08, and the next entry is Christiaan Hendrik SwanepoelH (b6c5d7e3f7) and Pieter Johannes SwanepoelL (b6c5d7e16f1) from 1919-01-23, 23 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 23 years before it.

  What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1896 and 1919. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

• The record stops in 1943 and never resumes third order · B2 trail-ends

  Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) was worked as far as 1943-06-06, with Christiaan Hendrik Swanepoel jnrH (b6c5d7e3f7g5) the last owner on record. 83 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

  What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

• “Estate late P.J. Swanepoel” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner

  A boundary description for Botterkraal (Jansenskraal No. 104 Ptn 2) names Estate late P.J. Swanepoel, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Swanepoel tenure elsewhere, but none on this boundary and none at this date.

  What would settle it The diagram's own date fixes the window. The quitrent or erfpacht register for that year names the holder of the adjoining place, and an estate inventory will name the farm outright.

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. 1 further, less urgent, on the questions page.