Waterval (Farm 215 Ptn 1)

1/215 on the cadastre · 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
On the cadastre: 1/215, portionregistered as FARM
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

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.