Waterval (Farm 215 Ptn 1)

· on record 1990 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 215
Portion: 1
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 5445,7438 hektaar
Modern surveyed area: 5428.0 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. 43 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Farm 215
border Shares a boundary with Farm 222 Farm 222
border Shares a boundary with Rietfontein No. 12 Ptn 2 Rietfontein No. 12 Ptn 2
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0169

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Farm 215, the farm this ground was part of until 1990. 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.

1990 boundary consolidation: from Spreeuw Fontein & Toornits Kraal (Spreeufontein No. 26)
1990 boundary consolidation: from Spreeufontein No. 26 Ptn 2
1990 boundary consolidation: from Jansenskraal No. 104
1990 boundary subdivision: becomes Waterval (Farm 215 Ptn 1)
1990-09 document SG diagram 7373/1990 T53114/91
1990-09 document SG diagram 7373/1990 (sheet 2)
1990-09 document SG diagram verso 7373/1990 (verso)

What the record holds, in order

1990 boundary change subdivision: from Farm 215
July 1990–August 1990 document SG diagram 7374/1990
T53114/91

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

catalogued, no scan held

Surveyor-General diagram, 7374/1990, July 1990–August 1990
10TW1801 farm 215.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

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-203/DOC-0169] Cut from PAR-000134 in 1990, transferred on deed 53115/91. Its neighbour list is the useful part: RIETFONTEIN NR 12 (Gedeelte 1 and Restant), ANTJES FONTEIN NR 14, SPREEUW FONTEIN NR 26, LEEUKRAAL 24 and GEDEELTE 1 VAN ZEEKOEGAT NR 22. These 1990-2018 consolidations are the MODERN successors of farms this project tracks. They are recorded because they say where the old farms went and because their neighbour lists corroborate our own; they are not themselves part of the family story.

[13 Aug 2026, SRC-436] NAMED FROM THE 2023 VALUATION ROLL, which gives this portion as "Waterval" (5445.7440 ha). This row previously read "Farm 215 Portion 1", which was a farm-and-portion label rather than a name. The roll is a rates document and good evidence for what the ground is called now; it says nothing about what it was called when the portion was cut.

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
Waterval (Farm 215 Ptn 1) 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.