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Farm PAR-000096

Part of Reim Hoogte No. 167

Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1)

· on record 1908 · show on the map

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

Farm number
No. 167
Portion
1
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
25 morgen 133 square roods
Modern surveyed area
21.8 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

Jacobus Johannes Petrus du Plessis held it, a blood relative of the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines, 5 steps away. 12 km from Klaarstroom.

  1. Jacobus Johannes Petrus du Plessis
  2. child of Johannes Gysbertus du Plessis
  3. parent of Cecelia Maria du Plessis
  4. parent of Johanna Elizabeth Theron
  5. child of Petrus Jacobus Theron
  6. child of Dina Magdalena 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.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Reim Hoogte No. 167, the farm this ground was part of until 1908. 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. 1833-08 document SG diagram 351/1833 BF.WQ 5-10
  2. ../1833 ownership Willem Johannes Gous loan farm · survey · confidence high
  3. 1841-04-15 ownership Willem Johannes Gous Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
  4. 1863 grave Hendrik Johannes Neethling Remhoogte 167 farm cemetery (first ground), HENDRIK JOHANNES / NEETHLING / geboren 1[?] AUGUSTUS / 1795 / gestorven 3[?] MEI / 1863 / TER GEDACHTENIS AAN / HUNNEN GELIEFDEN VADER DOOR / ZYNE DANKBARE KINDEREN / 'IK BEN DE OPSTANDING / EN HET LEVEN' / JOH[ANNES] XI:25
  5. 1865 grave Martha Mary Ann Wilman Remhoogte 167 farm cemetery (first ground)
  6. 1901-02-02 event The skirmish at Remhoogte, and the death of Johannes Kleu [SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] The Boers caught the retreating Yeomanry at REMHOOGTE, a farmstead beside the old Prince Albert road, and shot the horses from under them. Lance-Corporal J. Boyd, wounded, sheltered at Wolwekloof; Johannes Kleu, a 23-year-old unarmed rebel walking home to Aberdeen, stumbled on him and was shot dead. That night Scheepers's men stayed at BLOEMENDAL. On 5 February they slipped north across the Witteberg via Boesmanskloof, SLEUTELFONTEIN and BOTTERSKRAAL, reaching ZEEKOEGAT on 7 February and looting two shops. Four of those farms are in this model. || *** [7 Sep 2026, SRC-172 pp.11-13 and SRC-632] THE FARM IS SETTLED AND THE FAMILY IS NAMED. *** Two patrols out of Prince Albert under Capt. McDowell and Lt. Torrane rode towards Klaarstroom on 2 February, took three Boer scouts on the way, saw how many Boers held the village and turned back. 'The Boers gave chase and NEAR THE FARM REMHOOGTE began to close in.' Eight of the Yeomanry were taken with their horses shot under them; Sgt.-Maj. Jackson and Tpr. Mobsby dismounted under fire to get Col. Parke back into the saddle and Jackson was captured doing it; Corp. Boyd was fatally wounded. JOHANNES KLEU DIED IN THE HOUSE. p.13: he 'was seriously wounded and was left behind with the Du Plessis family at Remhoogte'. The family's own account is SRC-632, from Miemie de Wit (PER-002051), who was ten and in the house: the wounded Englishman hid in Wolwekloof, Kleu came upon him, and the Englishman shot him at point blank range through the chest. Her father ROELOF DU PLESSIS (PER-002050) carried him in through the back door and laid him in the room at the far end of the stoep, where he died, and buried him quietly that night. WHICH REMHOOGTE: THE QUESTION FLAGGED ON THIS ROW IS ANSWERED, AND IT IS REIM HOOGTE No. 167. The book states the distance twice and from two different informants - p.36, Anna Snyders: 'the farm Remhoogte, 40 km from Prince Albert on the Klaarstroom road'; p.45, of the grave: 'Forty kilometers from Prince Albert on the farm Remhoogte'. Measured against this project's own cadastre, Reim Hoogte No. 167 (PAR-000092) lies 36.9 km from Prince Albert in a straight line, which is about 40 km by road; Rhemhoogte No. 125 (PAR-000068) lies 46.3 km in a straight line, which cannot be 40 km by road. The grave's own coordinate, which came from eGGSA and not from the book, already sat on 167. Three independent things agree, so the affair belongs on Reim Hoogte No. 167 and the cameo's filing under Rhemhoogte No. 125 is wrong. BOYD WAS BURIED BESIDE HIM AND DID NOT STAY. p.13: 'Boyd was also buried at Remhoogte but after the war his remains were reinterred in the graveyard of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd at Klaarstroom.' Miemie de Wit watched it: he 'was buried 50 yards from the Boer. After the war his wife in England asked that he be reinterred. I can well remember the grave being opened.'
  7. 1901-02 grave Johannes Kleu Wolwekloof, Reim Hoogte 167, Not read by this project; recorded from the eGGSA caption, which is a transcription made by somebody else.
  8. 1908 boundary subdivision: becomes Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte No. 167 Ptn 1)
  9. undated grave Hannah Maria -186? Wilman Remhoogte 167 farm cemetery (first ground)
  10. undated grave Reim Hoogte 167 farm cemetery, [effaced]

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1908 boundary change subdivision: from Reim Hoogte No. 167
  2. March 1908 document SG diagram 680/1908
    T3908/1908
  3. 18 March 1908 document report
  4. 15 June 1908 ownership Jacobus Johannes Petrus du Plessis (21 June 1869–20 June 1941)
    freehold · transfer · confidence high

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, 680/1908, March 1908 Surveyor-General diagram, 680/1908, March 1908
10690900.PDF
Scan of report, 18 March 1908 report, 18 March 1908
10690903.PDF

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

[31 Jul 2026 inbox] A 25-morgen erf inside Reim Hoogte, 'bounded on all sides by the Remainder of Remhoogte' (DOC-0127), surveyed March 1908 and transferred 15 June 1908 to J.J.P. du Plessis. Already drawn on the 1833 face, so the name is at least 75 years older than its survey. Converts to 21.6 ha against a modern 26.1 - ratio 1.21, the ~1.20 pattern again on a parcel small enough that the discrepancy cannot be portions coming off.

[13 Aug 2026] Renamed to the one form this model uses for every portion - the portion's own name, then the parent farm, its number and the portion in brackets - so that a name is legible in a list, a search result and a map popup without the reader having to know which farm number is which. It read "Rossel Erf (Reim Hoogte Ptn 1)" before. Nothing about the ground changed.

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

Open questions

What the record is missing

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.