Part of Middelwater

Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4)

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

Farm number

No. 169

Portion

4

District

Prince Albert

Modern surveyed area

846.1 ha

Why this farm is here

Ground a written history is set on. 5 km from Klaarstroom.

• story A written history is set on this ground Middelwater's story since 1777
• parcel Cut out of Middelwater

Stories

• about this farm Middelwater's story since 1777
  From a loan farm on the Zwartberg to eight cadastral parcels: the full documented history of Middelwater No. 169 - Stretch's 1833 survey for Okert Oosthuizen, the twelve-farm grant day of 1841, the 1883 resurvey and the 1884 quitrent to J.D.J. Oosthuysen 'and another', the portions cut off for a spring called Vaste Water and a place called Avondrust, and the 1990 power-line survey whose coordinates finally put the farm on a map.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Middelwater, the farm this ground was cut from, on a date the record does not give. 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. 1777/1860 boundary subdivision: from De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm)
2. 1777/1860 boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater
3. 1777/1860 boundary same_as: becomes De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
4. 1777 event De Claar Stroom loan farm granted parent farm of Middelwater and Klaarstroom This is PAR-000097, Klaarstroom No. 178. The loan farm itself is PAR-000004.
5. 1821~ to 188X ownership Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (1792-06-14–1860) occupation · confidence medium
6. 1821~ residence Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (1792-06-14–1860) farming
7. 1822 ownership Jan Louis Venter (1754–1824), Johanna Jacomina Smit (1760–1824) loan farm · occupation · confidence high
8. 1822 residence Jan Louis Venter (1754–1824) tax roll
9. 1833 boundary consolidation: becomes Drooge Kloof
10. 1833-08 document SG diagram 349/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-7
11. 1833 to 1841-04-15 ownership Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1786-04-24–1859-02-26) loan farm · occupation · confidence high
12. 1836-11-27 residence Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1836-11-27–1922-01-02) birth/farming
13. 1836 residence Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1819) (1819-05-31–1856-09-24) farming
14. 1841-04-15 ownership owner not named in the record Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence medium
15. 1850~ residence Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828) (1828–1871-04-24) farming
16. 1860-02-18 residence Johanna Machteld Petronella Strydom (1792-01-05–1860-02-18) farming · to 1860-02-18
17. 1865 event The 1865 drought: watering the Middelwater orange grove from vats So dry that Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen, then living on Middelwater (PAR-000001), watered the orange grove before the house with wagon and vats so the trees would not die; the only water left stood in the heights toward Kouwveldt at the steep drift. His grandson's diary carries it, from his son's telling - the only picture of daily life on Middelwater in the 1860s this record holds.
18. 1865~ residence Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen (1816-11-20–1882-08-11) memoir
19. 1883 boundary subdivision: becomes Klein Vlei (Middelwater portion)
20. 1883-10 document SG diagram 1364/1883 P.A.Q.3-3
21. 1883 document SG diagram verso 1364/1883 (verso)
22. 1884-03-24 ownership Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen (1823-09-02–1903-06-11), Oosthuysen co-owner (unidentified) quitrent · grant · confidence high
23. 1923 boundary subdivision: becomes Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5)
24. 1926 boundary subdivision: becomes Avondrust (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 6)
25. 1988-07/1989-08 document SG diagram L.G. 6955-90 K.354/96
26. 1990 document SG diagram L.G. 6954/90 K.354/96s
27. 19XX boundary subdivision: becomes Rietfontein
28. undated boundary remainder: becomes Moreson (Middelwater No. 169 Remainder)
29. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 1
30. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 2
31. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 3
32. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4)
33. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 7
34. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Remainder (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 2)

What the record holds, in order

1. undated boundary change subdivision: from Middelwater

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 Middelwater
• N Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 3
• N Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 7
• NE Rondabel
• NE Rondabel No. 124 Remainder
• E Die Kruine No. 170
• SE De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
• SW Avondrust (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 6)
• SW Vaste Water (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 5)
• SW Moreson (Middelwater No. 169 Remainder)
• W Remainder (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 2)
• NW Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 2

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.

What the record is missing

• Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held

  Ebeneser (Middelwater No. 169 Ptn 4) 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.