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Farm PAR-000161

Part of Klein Valie No. 182

Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1)

· on record 1912–1940 · show on the map

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

Farm number
No. 182
Portion
1
District
Prince Albert
Extent, as the diagram states it
2102 morgen 186 square roods
Modern surveyed area
1793.1 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. 14 km from Klaarstroom.

What this farm became

From 1938/1940 this ground stopped being one farm, and the story continues on the pieces cut from it. Its own record above ends there; what happened afterwards belongs to a portion, not to the whole.

Before this ground was cut out

This is the history of Klein Valie No. 182, the farm this ground was part of until 1912. 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.

  1. 1833-08 document SG diagram B348/1833 Bf.W.Q.5-6
  2. ../1833 ownership Christian Hatting Junior (Klein Valie, 1833) loan farm · survey · confidence high
  3. ../1878 to 1897 ownership Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1836-11-27–1922-01-02) owner · confidence medium
  4. 1878 residence Almero Jacobus Hitge Oosthuizen (1878-01-18–1961-10-29) memoir
  5. 1892 event The great perdevrekte of 1892 Horse-sickness swept the district: of 95 horses and mules on Kouwveldt (PAR-000088), 14 were left. 'Na hierdie vrekte het die donkie sy tuiste in ons wereld gekry' - the donkey arrived in the Koup's world because the horses died out of it. The diary ranks it with the fall of the ostrich-feather market.
  6. 1897 event Kouwveldt sold; the family moves to Droogekloof Ockert Almero Oosthuizen sells Kouwveldt - properly Klein Vallei, PAR-000088 - to Jan Muller and moves his household to his other farm, Droogekloof (PAR-000007). The same year the brandsiekwet came from Rhodes; 'die enigste goeie ding wat hy in Suid-Afrika gedoen het', the diary says, with the district protesting.
  7. 1897 ownership Jan Müller (bought Klein Vallei, 1897) purchase · confidence medium
  8. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Oude Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 1)
  9. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Koude Veld (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 2)
  10. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Nieuwe Kraal (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 3)
  11. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Gideon's Hoop (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 4)
  12. 1912 boundary subdivision: becomes Groote Leegte (Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 5)
  13. 1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (sketch)
  14. 1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p1)
  15. 1912-07-30 document survey report 2114-2118/1912 (report p2)

What the record holds, in order

  1. 1912 boundary change subdivision: from Klein Valie No. 182
  2. July 1912 document SG diagram 2115/1912
  3. 1938–1940 boundary change subdivision: becomes Klein Valie No. 182 Ptn 10 (out of Oude Kraal)
  4. 1940 document SG diagram verso 2115/1912 (verso)

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, 2115/1912, July 1912 Surveyor-General diagram, 2115/1912, July 1912
10TVUM01.jpg
catalogued, no scan held
 Diagram verso, 2115/1912 (verso), 1940
10TVUR01.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

[5 Aug 2026 inbox] Portion 1 of Klein Valie No. 182, NAMED OUDE KRAAL on its own diagram 2115/1912 (K.M. von OppellM, July 1912), Field-Cornetcy of Kredouw. The sheet gives the whole figure a.b.c.d.e.f as 2102 morgen 186 square roods and the portion itself, a'.b'.c.d'.e', as 1737 morgen. Bounded N by Crown Land and land granted to C. HattingM 15 April 1841; E by Gideons Hoop; SE by Tafel Berg and Crown Land; W by Nieuwe Kraal. Deducted No. 2859, 28 Oct 1912. Copied from the diagram relating to Transfer 11089 dated 8.10.1919. Servitude water canals PQ, RS vide D/T 4072/1940, SG 6.5.1940. Portion 10 (12.0301 morgen) was later cut out of it. EXTENT CORRECTED 5 Aug 2026: the sheet carries TWO figures and the first reading here took the wrong one. 'Area Fig. a.b.c.d.e.f. 2102 Morgen 186 Square Roods' is von Oppell's own 1912 survey; 'the diagram lettered a'.b'.c.d'.e'. represents 1737 Morgen' is the PRIMED figure, which his report says is the old boundary he differed from and drew in red. The modern cadastral polygon measures 1,794.6 ha against 1,800.9 ha for 2102 mg 186 sr - agreement to 0.4% - so the ground registered today is his survey, not the older line.

[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 "Oude Kraal (Klein Valie Ptn 1)" 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.

What the record is missing

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.