Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 3

· on record 1955 · show on the map

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

Farm number: No. 112
Portion: 3
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 2067,7147 morge
Modern surveyed area: 1775.7 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. 31 km from Klaarstroom.

parcel Cut out of Minnies Kraal No. 112
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0185
lead An open question in this record is about this ground Is Minnies Kraal No. 112 named for the MINNE family - who married into the Janse van Vuuren of Wilgemond?

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Minnies Kraal No. 112, the farm this ground was part of until 1955. 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.

1955 boundary subdivision: becomes Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 2
1955 boundary subdivision: becomes Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 3
1955/1956 boundary subdivision: becomes Askop (Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 1)
1955/1956 boundary subdivision: becomes Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 6
1955/1956 boundary subdivision: becomes Nuwejaarsfontein (Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 7)
1955/1956 boundary subdivision: becomes Klein Minnieskraal (Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 8)
1955-08/1955-09 document SG diagram 8731/1955 K.G.T. 2300/1956
1955 document SG diagram verso 8731/1955 (verso)
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 4
undated boundary subdivision: becomes Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 5

What the record holds, in order

1955 boundary change subdivision: from Minnies Kraal No. 112
August 1955–September 1955 document SG diagram 8734/1955
T/A 2301/1956

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, 8734/1955, August 1955–September 1955
SCAN286 112 3.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-219] The largest of the eight 1955 portions of Minnies Kraal 112, and THE TRAKA RIVIER RUNS THROUGH IT - which is worth noting, because the Traka veldkornetskap is where most of the farms this project follows sit. Minnies Kraal came in only to settle a farm number (see PAR-000138); its position on the Traka is the first thing that argues it might belong here for its own sake.

[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 "Minnies Kraal Portion 3 (No. 112 Ptn 3)" 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

Is Minnies Kraal No. 112 named for the MINNE family - who married into the Janse van Vuuren of Wilgemond? priority 1 · LEAD-0071
Does the farm name Minnies Kraal come from the Mienie/Minnie surname, and if so which member of that family held or occupied the ground?

What would settle it A grant, quitrent or early diagram of farm 112 naming a MINNE as occupier or grantee - the spelling on the document is itself part of the answer. Failing that, a Minne recorded on or beside that ground before the name appears on a map.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
Minnies Kraal No. 112 Ptn 3 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.