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Farm PAR-000093

Bloemendaal No. 165

165 on the cadastre · on record 1825 · show on the map

Farm number
No. 165
On the cadastre
165, whole farmregistered as BLOEMENDAL
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
3000 morgen
Modern surveyed area
1344.6 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

Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz held it. 16 km from Klaarstroom.

Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz is on record on this ground directly. No trace needed.

What the record holds, in order

  1. 7 May 1825 document SG diagram B493/1845
    Bf.W.Q.8-1
  2. 7 May 1825 document SG diagram verso B493/1845 (verso)
  3. undated ownership Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz (17 February 1919–4 July 2003)
    freehold · owner · confidence medium

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.

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, B493/1845, 7 May 1825 Surveyor-General diagram, B493/1845, 7 May 1825
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Scan of Diagram verso, B493/1845 (verso), 7 May 1825 Diagram verso, B493/1845 (verso), 7 May 1825
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Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] North of Venters Kloof and west of Reim Hoogte. Its diagram (DOC-0129) is a redraw of an ORIGINAL FRAMED 7 MAY 1825 by the surveyor Bower - eight years before Stretch's season and the oldest survey in this model. Titled 31 Jan 1845 on Bf.W.Q. 8-1, a different volume and date from the 1841 series. Ten portions came off between 1859 and 1953 (DOC-0130). Modern cadastre 1,345.3 ha against an original 2,569.6 - most of the farm has gone.

[SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] 'On the night of 2 February 1901, Scheepers and his men stayed over at the farm BLOEMENDAL west of Klaarstroom. In 1935, the farm owner, PIET OOSTHUIZEN, renamed a portion of the farm as SCHEEPERSRUS.' We hold no owner for this farm at any date, so both the 1935 Oosthuizen ownership and the portion name are new and unverified. Years later, in 1970, rifle parts thrown into the Groot River by the commando washed up at Scheepersrus.

[14 Aug 2026, FAMILY] THE FARM TOKKIE HELD, AND THE FIRST OWNER THIS ROW HAS EVER CARRIED. Frans gave the Bloemendal house as -33.274613 / 22.388809, explicitly correcting a point given the day before; it falls inside this polygon. So Gert Annis "Tokkie" Oosthuizen Marincowitz (PER-000007) held THIS Bloemendal, not Bloemendal A No. 166 where OWN-000105 sat overnight. The werf is PLC-000080. He held Tabaklande as well, which is farm 164 portion 2, so the two holdings are separate farms about 2 km apart. NO DATES - family knowledge gives the fact and not the years.

WORTH TESTING, NOT ASSUMING: the note above records SRC-010, a tertiary Rose Willis cameo, saying the owner of this farm in 1935 was a PIET OOSTHUIZEN who renamed a portion Scheepersrus after Scheepers's commando stayed here on 2 February 1901. Until today this row had no owner at any date and that cameo had nothing to attach to. It now sits beside a family holding, and Tokkie's own surname is Oosthuizen Marincowitz. That is a reason to look, and it is NOT a finding: the cameo is [TO VERIFY], no Piet is identified, and a shared surname in this district is close to no evidence at all.

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Open questions