Aschkop (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 10)

10/114 on the cadastre · on record 1911 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 114
Portion: 10
On the cadastre: 10/114, portionregistered as KLIPGAT
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2,137 morgen 590 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 1853.7 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. 30 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Klipgat No. 114
border Shares a boundary with Kopjes Kraal Kopjes Kraal
border Shares a boundary with Van Aardsfontein No. 109 Van Aardsfontein No. 109
border Shares a boundary with Klipgat A (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 2) Klipgat A (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 2)
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

What the record holds, in order

December 1911 document SG diagram 2083/1912
Transfer 8831 of 1916
undated boundary change subdivision: from Klipgat No. 114

Bordered by, as the diagram names them

N Nieuwe Dam
E Remainder Van Aards Fontein
S Kopjes Kraal
S Nieuwjaarsfontein
S Schuilpads Vlakte
W Klipgat A and Remainder
NE Rietkuil

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, 2083/1912, December 1911

Surveyor-General diagram, 2083/1912, December 1911
10TSPU01 114 10 Aschkop.jpg

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 Aschkop on that table, 2,137 morgen 590 square roods, deed 1916-142-8831. 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]

[10 Aug 2026, SRC-356/DOC-0268] ITS OWN DIAGRAM AT LAST, SG 2083/1912, and it carries a date this project wanted. The portion is written "ASCH KOP" in two words on the sheet, 2137 morgen 590 square roods, in the FIELD-CORNETCY OF TRAKA, and it was 'granted to the Estate of the late LOUIS DANIEL FRANCOIS VAN ZYL on the 9th. Septr. 1911' - the man of LEAD-0096, with the first firm date this record has for that estate being wound up. A later endorsement transfers it again on 15 November 1916, deed 8831, to 'The Estate of the late Albert T. van Zyl'. Surveyed December 1911 by A.I. de VilliersM. BOUNDED, in the sheet's words: N by Nieuwe Dam, E by Remainder Van Aards Fontein, S by Kopjes Kraal, Nieuwjaarsfontein and Schuilpads Vlakte, W by Klipgat A and Remainder, SE by Schuilpads Vlakte, NE by Rietkuil. Three of those are rows here already.

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

Open questions

141 people are on this site linked to nothing priority 1 · LEAD-0074
Which parcels and people exist on the site as dead ends - reachable by a list, but linked to no document, story, owner or neighbour?

What would settle it For the 106 tree-derived rows, a parentage pass merged from the family-tree on tree id - which 6 already names as the direction of travel and which would connect them wholesale rather than one at a time. For the three floating names, find the document each came from and link it.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Aschkop (Klipgat No. 114 Ptn 10) 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.