Uitnood No. 147 (Loan Farm Uit-Nood)

Farm number: No. 147
District: Willowmore
Extent, as the diagram states it: 6,376 morgen including the annexed Government ground
Modern surveyed area: 4725.2 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

Petrus van Veuren Senior held it, and no kinship to the Oosthuizen, Marincowitz or Van der Merwe lines is recorded, this ground entered through the land, not the family. 36 km from Klaarstroom.

border Shares a boundary with Haggas No. 145 Haggas No. 145
border Shares a boundary with Vondeling No. 139 Vondeling No. 139
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0155
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0156
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

August 1833 document SG diagram B 358/1833
Bf.W.Q.5-32
August 1833 document SG diagram B 358/1833 (reverse)
about 1833 ownership Petrus van Veuren Senior
quitrent · grant · confidence high

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

On the 1915 divisional map

As the Surveyor-General printed this farm in 1915: the registered holder, the date the title was issued and its quitrent reference, copied off the sheet as written. The whole map, farm by farm

Farm, as printed	Holder	Title	Quitrent	Note
UITNOOD	D. L. Harmse	15 April 1841	B.W.Q. 5.32 · fol. 979

Buried on this ground

Uitnood 147 farm cemetery, Swartberge 2 graves recorded, 2 identified in this project

The burials also appear on this farm's timeline above, each at its own date.

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 Brakrivier No. 148
W De Vlei No. 176

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, B 358/1833, August 1833

Surveyor-General diagram, B 358/1833, August 1833
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Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, B 358/1833 (reverse), August 1833

Surveyor-General diagram, B 358/1833 (reverse), August 1833
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Research notes

[1 Aug 2026 inbox] Loan farm, Traka field cornetcy, District of Beaufort. SG Dgm B 358/1833 (DOC-0155), surveyed by C. LENNOX STRETCH, AUGUST 1833, for PETRUS VAN VEUREN SENIOR. Title Bf.W.Q.5-32 dated 15 APRIL 1841, re-stamped 20.9.1963. Bounded N by the Loan Farm Haggis, S by the Zwarte Berg, E by the Vondeling, W by Haggis. The sheet names 'Geruste Leven B', 'Cheridauw voor Zeeridouw B' and an arable of 10 morgen. TWO CONNECTIONS THIS MAKES. (1) THE 15 APRIL 1841 GRANT DAY: Uitnood's title is Bf.W.Q.5-32, on the same day as Oorlogs Kloof's Bf.W.Q.5-30, Haggas's Bf.W.Q.5-31, the Hitge title B.W.Q.5-18 and Reim Hoogte's B.F.W.Q.5-10. The numbers are now consecutive across four farms we hold, which strengthens the mass-grant reading in S007 rather than the coincidence reading. (2) THE VAN VEURENS: Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 (PAR-000066, DOC-0073) was surveyed the same month by the same surveyor for LUCAS VAN VEUREN, recorded on that form as 'P. Zoon'. Petrus van Veuren SeniorH holding the adjoining Uitnood reads as the P. that 'P. Zoon' names, so father and son took up neighbouring ground in the Traka in August 1833. That is an inference from two diagrams, not a stated relationship, and it is [TO VERIFY] against a death notice or an estate paper. See LEAD-0054. PORTIONS, from the reverse (DOC-0156): Geruste Leven B = Portion 147/1, 1,885 morgen, Dgm 666/1910, registered 1910-135-8686; Voor Zeeridouw B = Portion 147/3, 3,190 morgen, Dgm 345/1917, registered 1921-129-7798 (an earlier 27.9.1918-6810 entry is struck through). 1918 endorsements name Schoeman (6 Dec 1918) and a 'remainder Stephanus'. NO GEOMETRY: not yet matched to the cadastre. [1 Aug 2026]

[1 Aug 2026] REGISTRATION DIVISION CORRECTED to Willowmore (PLC-000037). The 1833 diagram says "Traka Field Cornetcy, District of Beaufort", and the national cadastre puts UITNOOD 147 in C0830000 WILLOWMORE, Eastern Cape. Exactly the Haggas situation: the 1830s Beaufort District was vast and was later cut, and the provincial boundary now runs through this ward. The ward is still Traka, which is ours.

[15 Aug 2026] THE FARM CEMETERY ON IT HOLDS AN OOSTHUIZEN CHILD, AND HE IS HERE THROUGH HIS MOTHER. CEM-059 carries two read stones. One is GRV-1450, Okkert Jacobus OosthuizenL, died 9 October 1842 aged two years and ten months - THE EARLIEST DATED OOSTHUIZEN BURIAL IN THIS PROJECT, sixteen years before Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia's own deaths. His mother was Catharina Adriana Janse van Vuuren [PER-000605], which is why an Oosthuizen lies on ground surveyed for Petrus van Veuren SeniorH. The other stone is a Hitge by marriage. Whether the boy's mother is kin to this farm's grantee is NOT established - see LEAD-0197.

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

Open questions

Which J. A. Oosthuizen held land in the Field Cornetcy of Traka in 1891? priority 1 · LEAD-0239
The 1929 diagram of Brakrivier No. 148 (SRC-492) describes part of the farm as 884 morgen 214 sq rds 'portion of the land transferred to J. A. OOSTHUIZEN on the 29th of May 1891'. Who was he?

What would settle it The 29 May 1891 transfer deed, which gives his full names. Failing that, an estate file or death notice for one of the four grandsons that names ground in the Willowmore division or the Field Cornetcy of Traka - all four have dates of death, so all four have a death notice to find.
Petrus van Veuren Senior and Lucas van Veuren "P. Zoon": father and son on adjoining ground? priority 2 · LEAD-0054
Was Lucas van VeurenM of Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 the son of Petrus van Veuren SeniorH of Uitnood No. 147?

What would settle it A death notice or estate account naming Lucas as a son of Petrus, or a baptism entry giving Lucas a father Petrus. Either would turn an initial into a relationship.
Six parcels whose surveyed extent is far from their polygon with no reason recorded priority 2 · LEAD-0093
For each, is the extent mistyped, or did ground leave the farm without a note?

What would settle it The deduction table. It lists portion, name, extent, diagram and deed on one line.
Is the Uitnood grantee kin to the van Vuuren mother buried beside him, and are the three August 1833 van Veurens one family? priority 2 · LEAD-0197
C. Lennox Stretch surveyed three farms for three van Veurens in AUGUST 1833: Uitnood No. 147 for PETRUS VAN VEUREN SENIOR, Oorlogs Kloof No. 172 for LUCAS VAN VEUREN recorded as "P. Zoon", and Wilgamount for a MARTINUS VAN VEUREN. Are they one family, and is any of them kin to CATHARINA ADRIANA JANSE VAN VUUREN [PER-000605], whose two-year-old son lies in the Uitnood farm cemetery in 1842?

What would settle it One document naming a Petrus van Veuren and a Johannes Marthinus Janse van VuurenL in the same family - a death notice, an estate account, or a baptism where one witnesses for the other. Or a transfer of Uitnood to an heir this model can already name.

What the record is missing

The record stops in 1833 and never resumes second order · B2 trail-ends
Uitnood No. 147 (Loan Farm Uit-Nood) was worked as far as 1833~, with Petrus van Veuren SeniorH the last owner on record. 193 years follow with nothing. Who held it after that, and is it still one farm?

What would settle it The current title deed traced backwards, each transfer names the one before it, or the Surveyor-General's subdivision diagrams, which are what usually explain a farm going quiet.

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.