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Farm PAR-000114

Part of Rondabel

Rondabel No. 124 Remainder

RE/124 on the cadastre · show on the map

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

Farm number
No. 124
Portion
Remainder
Also recorded as
Rondabel RemainderDroë KloofSRC-436, 2023 valuation roll, printed there as "Dro Kloof" because the roll drops the diaeresisDrooge KloofFAMILY, the spelling this project has carried for the house C.J.J. Oosthuizen grew up in
On the cadastre
RE/124, remainderregistered as RONDABLE
District
Prince Albert
Modern surveyed area
3008.9 ha

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. 11 km from Klaarstroom.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Rondabel, 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.

  1. 1818-05-02 document estate inventory MOOC8/64.12a
  2. 1818-05-02 inventory estate inventory: Ignatius Michael du Plessis & Aletta Elisabeth Dorothea van Heerden MOOC8/64.12a · loan farm Rondabel, on the Tarka
  3. ../1818 to 1823 ownership Ignatius Michael du Plessis (–1818), Jan de Bruin (1769–1822-12-23) loan farm · occupation · confidence medium
  4. 1823-06-13 document estate inventory MOOC8/38.12
  5. 1823-06-13 inventory estate inventory: Jan de Bruin & Aletta Johanna Oosthuizen MOOC8/38.12 · loan farm Rondabel, in the Tarka
  6. 1829-10-29 document estate inventory MOOC8/44.48
  7. 1829-10-29 inventory estate inventory: Jan Adriaan Venter & Maria Catharina Elisabeth Venter MOOC8/44.48 · the place Rondavel, field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort
  8. ../1829 ownership Jan Adriaan Venter (1794-09-14–1829-07-23), Maria Catharina Venter (1783–) loan farm · occupation · confidence high
  9. 1833-08 document SG diagram 366/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-2?
  10. 1841-04-15 to 1868 ownership David Jan Strydom (Daniel son) (1798-08-12–1882-01-11) Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
  11. 1863-11 document SG diagram 502/1867 P.A.Q.1-21
  12. 1868-01-21 ownership Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen, Stephanus Johannes Theron (1828-09-03–1879-01-07) Perpetual Quitrent · grant · confidence high
  13. 1872-07-17 boundary subdivision: becomes Rondawel (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 1)
  14. 1872-07-17 ownership Stephanus Johannes Theron (1828-09-03–1879-01-07) transfer · confidence high
  15. 1895-04-10 document death notice
  16. 1895-04 grave Cecilia Maria Theron Rondabel werf graves, CECILIA MARIA THERON / GEBOREN DU P[LESSIS] / den 9 January 18[illegible] / overleden den 1[?9] April 1895 // Vrome vroeg gestorven vrienden / slechts zij [illegible] / [illegible] zult allen wederom [illegible] / als ons Jezus 't graf ontsluit
  17. 1901 residence Gert Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1875-09-09–1952-10-08) family testimony
  18. 1910 boundary subdivision: becomes Brand Kraal (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 3)
  19. 1910-08 document SG diagram 1654/1910 8326
  20. 1910-09-16 document beacon report 1654/1910
  21. 1919 boundary subdivision: becomes Hartebeest Voedpad (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 5)
  22. 1919-01 document SG diagram 270/1919
  23. 1919 document SG diagram 1872-23-208
  24. 1919 document SG diagram
  25. 1919 document SG diagram 1872-23-208 (p 2)
  26. 1919 document SG diagram 1872-23-208 (p 3)
  27. 1921 boundary subdivision: becomes Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 6)
  28. 1921 document SG diagram 891/1921
  29. 1933 boundary subdivision: becomes Klein Elandsfontein (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 7)
  30. 1936 residence Frederik Simon Oosthuizen (1856-05-29–1936-10-10) farming · to 1936
  31. 1999 residence Roy Don Oosthuizen (1923-12-09–1999-09-20) farming · to 1999
  32. 2003 residence Gert Annis Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1919-02-17–2003-07-04) farming · to 2003
  33. 202X ownership Gerhard Jan Oosthuizen Marincowitz (1946-08-17–), Christiaan Wilhelm Joubert Marincowitz (1949-06-19–) owner · confidence high
  34. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Visgat (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 2)
  35. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4)
  36. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 8
  37. undated boundary subdivision: becomes Rondabel No. 124 Remainder
  38. undated document SG diagram verso 502/1867 (verso)
  39. undated grave Rondabel werf graves

What the record holds, in order

  1. undated boundary change subdivision: from Rondabel

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.

Cadastre

Surveyor-General diagram index for this parcel

Research notes

[1 Aug 2026] IN THE MODEL FROM THE CADASTRE PULL ONLY. The Surveyor-General has a polygon for it and this project has no document that names it, so it carries geometry, an extent and a name and no history. It is here because RONDABEL IS A CORE FARM of this project and the map was showing the parent outline with four of its nine modern parcels named, which reads as an absence in the record and is not one. It was absent purely because nobody had made the row, not because anything was missing from the pull: data/geo/prince_albert_farm_portions.geojson has held this polygon all along and match_cadastre.py can only match parcels that exist. Cadastre: 3,608.5 ha, LPI C06100000000012400000. The model already holds Ptn 3 Brand Kraal (PAR-000042), Ptn 5 Hartebeest Voedpad (PAR-000043), Ptn 6 Elandsfontein (PAR-000044) and Ptn 7 Klein Elandsfontein (PAR-000045), each off its own diagram. This row has no diagram behind it and no name beyond the cadastre's. [TO VERIFY] what it was called and who held it, from the Rondabel deduction tables and the CSG diagram index.

KEY CORRECTED 1 Aug 2026. First pinned to ...124000000, which is the WHOLE FARM polygon (16,646 ha) in the farms layer, so this row and PAR-000009 were claiming the same geometry and the Remainder was drawn four and a half times its true size. The Remainder is ...124000001. SAME REMAINDER-FLAG RULE as Van Aardsfontein RE/3: the last digit is 1 for a remainder and 0 for the portion itself.

[5 Aug 2026] extent_ha BLANKED. It held 3608.5 ha, which is this parcel's GEOM_AREA from the cadastre pull divided by 10 000 - the field the 5 Aug match_cadastre.py fix identified as inflated by 1/cos(lat), about 19.7% in this latitude, on 429 records. The fix corrected sg_area_ha (now 3008.9 ha, from Shape_Area) but extent_ha is hand-maintained and no check reads it, so the defective figure survived the correction and was being exported: extent_ha is in export_public.PUBLIC_COLUMNS. extent_ha means AN EXTENT A DOCUMENT STATES, and no document here states one for this parcel - this row's own note above says so. So it goes blank rather than being corrected to the polygon figure, which is what sg_area_ha already is.

[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 "Rondabel Remainder (No. 124)" 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.