Groot Sleutelfontein (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 2)

· on record 1883–1937 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 125
Portion: 2
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2108 morgen 338 sq roods
Modern surveyed area: 381.1 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. 16 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Rhemhoogte No. 125
parcel Cut out of Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 1
parcel Ground cut out of this farm: Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4)
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0174
…and 2 more, listed in full further down this page.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 1, the farm this ground was part of until 1883. 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.

1883 boundary subdivision: becomes Groot Sleutelfontein (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 2)
1883 document SG diagram 978/1883 P.A.Q. 2-20

What the record holds, in order

1883 boundary change subdivision: from Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 1
July 1883 document SG diagram 1350/1883
341/1884
July 1883 document SG diagram verso 1350/1883 (verso)
1937 boundary change subdivision: becomes Kareemoerhoek (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 4)

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, 1350/1883, July 1883

Surveyor-General diagram, 1350/1883, July 1883
10TSWK01 125 port 2.jpg

catalogued, no scan held

Diagram verso, 1350/1883 (verso), July 1883
10TSWN01.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-208] Cut out of Portion 1 (PAR-000139) in July 1883 and transferred on deed 341 of 25 January 1884 to J.P. Oosthuizen - the transfer PAR-000070 cites as its own antecedent. Surveyed by P. S. Dale. Its eastern neighbour is "Lot B", which is the ground that later becomes Kareemoerhoek (PAR-000070, Portion 4). [5 Aug 2026] THE EXTENT GAP IS EXPLAINED. This row's recorded extent of about 2,108 morgen stood against a modern polygon of 381 ha - 4.7 times over, and the largest unexplained discrepancy in the model. Portion 2's own deduction table (DOC-0243) carries one line: diagram 4241/1937, KAREEMOERHOEK, 1654,0080 morgen, deed 13528/1937. Take that off and 454 morgen remain, about 389 ha, which is the polygon to within 2%. The ground became Portion 4 (PAR-000070).

[13 Aug 2026, SRC-436] NAMED FROM THE 2023 VALUATION ROLL, which gives this portion as "Groot Sleutelfontein" (389.3411 ha). This row previously read "Lot A (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 2)", 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. AND THE ROLL CONFIRMS THE 5 AUG DEDUCTION-TABLE READING RATHER THAN CONTRADICTING IT. This row's 1883 extent is 1805.6 ha; the roll gives Kareemoershoek (portion 4) as 1416.7 ha, which is the 1654.0080 morgen the deduction table says was cut off this portion in 1937 to within a hectare; and 1805.6 minus 1416.7 is 388.9 against the roll's 389.3 ha for portion 2. So the two extents are not in conflict at all: ours is the portion as first cut, the roll's is what is left of it, and the difference is Kareemoerhoek.

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

Open questions

Six parcels whose surveyed extent is far from their polygon with no reason recorded priority 2 · LEAD-0093
For each, is the extent mistyped, or did ground leave the farm without a note?

What would settle it The deduction table. It lists portion, name, extent, diagram and deed on one line.
Nine diagram sheets named in the model that no longer exist on disk priority 2 · LEAD-0095
Re-pull nine Surveyor-General sheets whose archive references this model records but whose images were never kept. What do their versos carry?

What would settle it Re-pulling the nine files. Each then gets its OWN DOC- row per 8, never a second filename on an existing row.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Groot Sleutelfontein (Rhemhoogte No. 125 Ptn 2) 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.