Bontwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 8)

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

Farm number: No. 114
Portion: 8
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2,137 morgen 596 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 1845.6 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

A piece of a farm already in this model. 36 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Klipgat No. 114
border Shares a boundary with Voelfontein No. 213 Voelfontein No. 213

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Klipgat No. 114, the farm this ground was cut from, on a date the record does not give. 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.

1910-09 document SG diagram 1200/1911 D/G P.A.Q 6-7
1911 document SG diagram verso 1200/1911 (verso)
../1911 to 1911-09-24 ownership Louis Daniel Francois van Zyl (1832–1900) quitrent · estate · confidence high
1911-09-24 to 1916 ownership Louis Daniel Francois van Zyl (1832–1900) quitrent · amended title · confidence high
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Zoutwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 1)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Klipgat A (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 2)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Lot A (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 3)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Rivervale (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 4)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Bulhouwer (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 5)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Nieuwe Dam (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 6)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Kalkgat (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 7)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Bontwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 8)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Quaggas Poel (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 9)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Aschkop (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 10)

What the record holds, in order

undated boundary change subdivision: from Klipgat No. 114

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 Wit Poortje No. 16
NE Wolwekraal No. 17
E Cyferfontein No. 115
E Paardefontein (Cyferfontein No. 115 Ptn 2)
SE Klipgat No. 114
SE Voelfontein No. 213
S Zoutwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 1)
W Zeekoegate

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

[1 Aug 2026 inbox] One of TEN near-equal subdivisions cut from Klipgat No. 114 and all registered in 1916 on consecutive deeds, from the deduction table on the reverse of SG Dgm 1200/1911 (DOC-0159). Named Bontwater on that table, 2,137 morgen 596 square roods, deed 1916-142-8829. THE SHAPE OF IT: nine of the ten are within four morgen of 2,137, and the tenth is a 10-morgen Lot A that is almost certainly a water or building site. Ten near-equal shares registered together, on an amended title issued to the ESTATE of the late Lucas Daniel Fromon van Zyl, is an estate being divided among heirs. The same pattern as Spreeufontein's three-way 1909 split, at ten times the width. [TO VERIFY] against the 1916 transfer deeds, which would name the heirs. The portion number comes from the order of the deed numbers (8820 to 8831 against portions 1 to 10), which agrees with the legible handwritten annotations; two of those annotations are not cleanly legible and rest on the order alone. The block also appears on the FACE of the 1911 diagram as a coloured internal division, so the ten were laid out before they were registered. MODERN EXTENT WILL NOT MATCH: the cadastre's ten Klipgat polygons total about 21,717 ha against the parent's 21,379 morgen (18,312 ha), and the cadastre also carries a 15/114 that is not on this sheet. Historic morgen and modern hectares are never quoted here as confirming each other. [1 Aug 2026]

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

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Bontwater (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 8) 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.