Karee Rivier No. 143

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Farm number: No. 143
District: Willowmore
Modern surveyed area: 6237.2 ha

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 38 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11)
border Shares a boundary with Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11)
lead An open question in this record is about this ground Which A.F. Hitge took Spitskop in 1939?
lead An open question in this record is about this ground Which J. A. Oosthuizen held land in the Field Cornetcy of Traka in 1891?

What this farm became

This ground was cut into portions on a date the record does not give.

undated Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11)

What the record holds, in order

undated boundary change subdivision: becomes Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11)

Ground cut out of this farm

Spitskop (Karee Rivier No. 143 Ptn 11) 68.9 ha

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.

Research notes

Superseded: answered below [1 Aug 2026 inbox] The parent farm of Spitskop (PAR-000102). Traka field cornetcy, DIVISION OF WILLOWMORE, which is the same registration division (C0830000, Eastern Cape) that Haggas No. 145 turned out to sit in. Present here only because its Portion 11 diagram arrived; no diagram of the parent farm is held and its extent is unrecorded. NO GEOMETRY, and for the same reason as Haggas: data/fetch_cadastre.py talks to the WESTERN Cape Surveyor-General, which does not serve a Willowmore-division farm. See LEAD-0053. [1 Aug 2026] [2 Aug 2026] NAME NOTE, geometry believed right. The Willowmore cadastre names farm 143 SPITSKOP, not Karee Rivier - and our own Portion 11 of this farm is the parcel we call Spitskop. So the modern cadastre appears to have taken the portion's name for the whole farm, or the farm was renamed. The historical name on the diagram is Karee Rivier and this project keeps it. Recorded so the disagreement is visible. [TO VERIFY]

[SRC-320, 7 Aug 2026] A FARM CEMETERY IS RECORDED ON THIS GROUND BY eGGSA: 'Klein Uitspanning 143, Jakhalsfontein', Cemetery ID 7477, at -33.175467, 21.624750. Photographs and captions at https://graveswcape.eggsa.org/PRINCE-ALBERT-Rural/0223007%20Grafte%20by%20Jakhalsfontein%20Klein%20Uitspanning%20_Pieter%20Olckers/ - linked, not copied.

[10 Sep 2026] TWO STATEMENTS ABOVE ARE WRONG. (1) 'NO GEOMETRY' was overtaken the same day: this farm is drawn from the Council for Geoscience national cadastre, key E107C083000000000143000000, 6,237.2 ha (LEAD-0053). (2) The eGGSA cemetery noted from SRC-320 is NOT on this ground. 'Klein Uitspanning 143, Jakhalsfontein' (CEM-460) sits at -33.175467, 21.624750, 123 km west of this farm, in eGGSA's Prince Albert rural collection: it is farm 143 of the PRINCE ALBERT registration division, a different farm with the same number. This is the trap 9 warns about - farm numbers repeat across divisions. CEM-460 was never linked to this parcel (its par_id is empty), so only this note carried the error.

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.
Which A.F. Hitge took Spitskop in 1939? priority 3 · LEAD-0055
Who is the A.F. HitgeM named in Deed of Partition No. 3399 of 5 April 1939 over Karee Rivier No. 143 Portion 11?

What would settle it Reading Deed of Partition 3399, which names every party to it in full. The diagram recites only one of them.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Karee Rivier No. 143 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.