Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren)

· on record 1709–1747 · show on the map

District: Land van Waveren / Tulbagh

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

Pieter Jansz Swanepoel held it. Connected to the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines BY MARRIAGE, not by blood, 5 steps on the shortest path. Not yet placed on the map.

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

What the record holds, in order

1709 to 1747-10-26 ownership Pieter Jansz Swanepoel (26 January 1678–about 1757)
freehold · occupation · confidence medium
1709 lived here Pieter Jansz Swanepoel (26 January 1678–about 1757)
farming
26 October 1747 ownership Johannes Hendrik Conradie (1710–18 July 1776)
freehold · transfer · confidence high

Research notes

[SRC-072] Near present-day Wolseley. Farmed 1709-1747 by PIETER JANSZ SWANEPOEL (PER-000079), who named it for his birthplace in West Flanders. Transferred 26 Oct 1747 to his son-in-law JOHANNES HENDRIK CONRADIE (PER-000082), husband of his daughter Rosa. Still in the same Conradie family at the end of the twentieth century. THIS IS THE FARM WHERE BOTH THE SWANEPOEL AND THE CONRADIE FAMILIES IN SOUTH AFRICA BEGIN - and Frans descends from that couple. The first family farm in the model, 400 km west of the Karoo.

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

What the record is missing

38 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow second order · B1 succession
On Nieuwmunster (Land van Waveren), Pieter Jansz SwanepoelH is the last owner recorded from 1709, and the next entry is Johannes Hendrik ConradieL from 1747-10-26, 38 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 38 years before it.

What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1709 and 1747. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.

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.