Part of De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)

De Claar Stroom No. 178 Ptn 1 (the arable)

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

Farm number: No. 178
Portion: 1
District: Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it: 9 morgen 167 sq roods

This parcel has no matched survey polygon, so it cannot be drawn on the map. That is a gap in the cadastre match, not an absence from the record.

Why this farm is here

A piece of a farm already in this model. Not yet placed on the map.

parcel Cut out of De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0190
document A document in the collection describes this ground DOC-0198
lead An open question in this record is about this ground Order General Plan K25 (30 Jan 1901) - is it the layout of the village of Klaarstroom?
…and 1 more, listed in full further down this page.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178), the farm this ground was part of until 1858. 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.

1777/1860 boundary same_as: from De Claar Stroom (the 1777 loan farm)
1777 event De Claar Stroom loan farm granted parent farm of Middelwater and Klaarstroom This is PAR-000097, Klaarstroom No. 178. The loan farm itself is PAR-000004.
1833-08 document SG diagram 350/1833 P.A.Q. 5-8; earlier P.A. Q.3-30 of 18.8.1836
1858 boundary subdivision: becomes De Claar Stroom No. 178 Ptn 1 (the arable)
1858/1860-08-04 event A town is laid out on De Claar Stroom, and named Petersburg for Petrus Oosthuizen Soon after Meiringspoort opened in 1858 the ground was surveyed and 27 erven measured out; the first sold on 4 August 1860. The loan farm ran from Middelwater to Vrolikheid. The ground was Petrus Oosthuizen's, and the village was called Petersburg for him; he and his BROTHER OCKERT enforced its stipulations. The erven were sold WITHOUT riparian rights - 'dry erven' - because the buyers meant to live off the traffic through the poort, not off the land. [TO VERIFY - local history] The ground is PAR-000097, Klaarstroom No. 178.
1858-03-03 event Meiringspoort opened [SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] Twenty-two kilometres, twenty-five river crossings, built in 223 working days from 1856. Reconnoitred in 1854 by John Charles Molteno with Charles Pritchard, Andrew Geddes Bain and his son Thomas, who preferred Toorwaterpoort but conceded this route. Initial work by Thomas J Mellville, Sub-Inspector of Roads for George, with 93 hired labourers, later replaced by Adam de Smidt. Opened with 300 mounted men and 50 coaches riding from Klaarstroom through to De Rust; the champagne broke on the third attempt. The first 21 wool wagons went down almost immediately. This is the road that made Klaarstroom, and the town was surveyed within two years of it. The poort is why the town on PAR-000097 exists. | [1 Aug 2026, date audit] Two rows recorded the opening of the poort. EVT-000077 (1858, SRC-067) is retired into this one, which carries the exact date. ITS FACT IS KEPT: Zeekoegat prospered after the road opened, and with the 1891 gold it carried a hotel, bar, shop, butchery and post office. EVT-000077 is retired and its id is not reused.
1858 to 1860 ownership Pieter Marthinus Oosthuijzen (1795-06-09–) quitrent · owner · confidence low
undated document SG diagram verso 350/1833 (verso)
undated grave Anna Maria Bailey Klaarstroom 178 farm cemetery
undated grave Jantjes Klaarstroom 178 farm cemetery
undated grave Klaas Minnie Klaarstroom 178 farm cemetery
undated grave Johannes Rabie Klaarstroom 178 farm cemetery
undated grave Johannes Jacobus 195? Stalmeester Klaarstroom 178 farm cemetery
undated grave Dina 197? Uksens Klaarstroom 178 farm cemetery

What the record holds, in order

1858 boundary change subdivision: from De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)
February 1858 document SG diagram A.942/1858
Transfer 45 of 3.6.1858 (Vol. 23)
undated document SG diagram verso A.942/1858 (verso)

Documents

Scan of Surveyor-General diagram, A.942/1858, February 1858

Surveyor-General diagram, A.942/1858, February 1858
11140329 178 1.jpg

Scan of Diagram verso, A.942/1858 (verso)

Diagram verso, A.942/1858 (verso)
11140330 178 1.jpg

Research notes

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-224] NINE MORGEN, AND THEY ARE THE NINE THAT MATTERED. The 1833 diagram of the whole farm (DOC-0189) marks a werf and writes "9 Morgen of arable" beside it. In February 1858 Frederick Wm. Barry surveyed exactly that off as Portion 1 - 9 morgen 167 square roods, bounded north, west and south by the rest of Klaarstroom and EAST BY THE GROOT RIVER - and it was transferred on its own deed, No. 45 of 3 June 1858. Out of 6 498 morgen, the first piece to be cut out and sold was the only piece that could be ploughed. The town of Klaarstroom stands on this farm (STO-0014). Absorbed into a 2014 consolidation, Farm 178/39, vide SG 1230/2014.

[3 Aug 2026, SRC-224 verso] AND THEN IT BECAME A TOWN. The back of this diagram has a printed deduction table that was never filled in - nothing was ever cut off Portion 1 and sold as land. Across it instead: "FOR SUBDIVISION OF PORTION K25 VIDE GENERAL PLAN K25", dated 30 January 1901. A general plan is the drawing made when ground is laid out into erven and streets rather than sold as veld. Klaarstroom the village stands on this farm, and on this evidence it stands on these nine morgen - the one piece that could be ploughed, cut off first in 1858, laid out into lots forty-three years later. Inference, not finding: the sheet names a general plan, not a village. General Plan K25 has not been seen. [TO VERIFY]

[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 "Klaarstroom Portion 1 (No. 178 Ptn 1) - the arable" 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

Order General Plan K25 (30 Jan 1901) - is it the layout of the village of Klaarstroom? priority 1 · LEAD-0068
Does General Plan K25 lay out the village of Klaarstroom on the nine morgen of Portion 1, and if so who surveyed it, how many erven, and at whose instance?

What would settle it The plan itself. It will either show erven and streets, which settles it, or show a farm subdivision, which kills it. Either way it names the surveyor and the date, and an erf plan would name the applicant.
Lot A of Klaarstroom, 7 morgen 188 roods, is on the 1886 diagram and in no other record here priority 2 · LEAD-0137
Thwaits's 1886 resurvey of Klaarstroom No. 178 (DOC-0191) tables two lots cut off the farm. Lot B, 9 morgen 167 square roods, is Barry's 1858 arable on the Groot River and is held as PAR-000151. LOT A, 7 morgen 188 square roods - given as a rectilinear 7 morgen 215 roods less 27 for the river boundary - is held nowhere. What is it, when was it cut off, and who took it?

What would settle it The 1886 verso's deduction table, or the diagram for the lot itself.

What the record is missing

Nobody is on record as ever having held this third order · B8 never-held
De Claar Stroom No. 178 Ptn 1 (the arable) is in the model, 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.