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Farm PAR-000117

Part of Rondabel

Driehoek (Rondabel No. 124 Ptn 4)

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

Farm number
No. 124
Portion
4
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
536 morgen 14 sq roods
Modern surveyed area
466.8 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. 19 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

Surveyor-General diagram index for the whole farm, where the original survey of this ground sits.

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: 559.8 ha, LPI C06100000000012400004. 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.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-220 verso] NAMED AND MEASURED. The deduction table on the back of the Portion 1 diagram gives this portion as DRIEHOEK, 536 morgen 14 square roods, diagram 269/1919, transferred 10 June 1919 on deed 5387. This row previously had neither a name nor an extent.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-248] DRIEHOEK CONFIRMED FROM A SECOND DOCUMENT, and an independent one. This row had no name and no extent until the Rondabel deduction table supplied "Driehoek"; a name taken off one table is a reading. The 1921 beacon report on the neighbouring Elandsfontein has a surveyor using it as a known place on the ground - "the beacon B is on line of eastern boundary of Driehoek". Two documents, two purposes, one name.

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.