Venters Kloof Annex No. 183

183 on the cadastre · on record 1913 · show on the map

Farm number: No. 183
On the cadastre: 183, whole farmregistered as VENTERS KLOOF ANNEX
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2055 morgen 216 square roods
Modern surveyed area: 1742.1 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

Named on the boundary of ground we hold, the neighbours are how the district describes itself. 13 km from Klaarstroom.

border Shares a boundary with Middelwater Middelwater
border Shares a boundary with Klein Valie No. 182 Klein Valie No. 182
border Shares a boundary with Venters Kloof No. 168 Venters Kloof No. 168
border Shares a boundary with Bloemendaal No. 165 Bloemendaal No. 165
…and 1 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

March 1913 document SG diagram 1014/1913

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

N Bloemendal
N Venters Kloof
SE Middel Water
S Kleine Valley en de Aap
W Land granted to C. Hatting 15 April 1841

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, 1014/1913, March 1913

Surveyor-General diagram, 1014/1913, March 1913
11659886.PDF

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] Surveyed March 1913 by K.M. von OppellM (DOC-0133), bounded north by Bloemendal and Venters Kloof and SOUTH-EAST BY MIDDEL WATER. Reserved for Forest purposes on 21 Jan 1915 under the same minute as Witberg, so the two entered the Swartberg reserve together. AREA: its own metric stamp reads 1760.4817 ha and the modern cadastre 2,091.0 - a ratio of 1.19, which is the third appearance of that same ~1.19-1.20 factor (Klipfontein ~1.20, Middelwater's portions 1.25-1.29) against Klein Valie's 1.02 and Windwaai's 0.99. See LEAD-0007.

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

“Land granted to C. Hatting 15 April 1841” held ground next door and we have no tenure for them third order · B4 unheld-owner
A boundary description for Venters Kloof Annex No. 183 names Land granted to C. HattingM 15 April 1841, a surveyor stating on the record that this person held the adjoining ground. We do hold Hatting 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.
Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Venters Kloof Annex No. 183 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.